So do you just wait who gets assigned to you randomly or do you go to islands and try to get specific ones? Because Iāve met a few on the islands that I wouldnāt want living in my little village. Mostly I avoid those with a cranky personalityāalso those with deep voices put me offā¦
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I like the randomness! One time in an old animal crossing we got this grumpy kangaroo called Walt and he became a firm favourite in our house. I guess I donāt trust that Iāll always like what I think I am going to like, if that makes sense.
I think if you let the game take a natural course the game balances the characters so you get a mix. I love bianca but I donāt think id want island with 3 or 4 similar animals.
I get it. I had an open spot and I met Bianca and since I already have Bangle I decided against her because it seemed they would have been more or less the same character. I kind of regretted that though because Bianca is really cute and has a pretty house and I spent another 15 nook tickets or so until I ended up with Alice the koalaā¦
My early villagers were all random:
- Louieāa gorilla who is surprisingly sweet, originally I hoped heād move out but heās been nothing but nice, gives me a lot of presents and has taught me most of the reactions I have
- Bobāthe cat is really weird (he seems to be quite popular which I donāt quite getā¦)
- Phoebeāshe gets on my nerves sometimes
- Wendyāthat sheep is just too quirky, I wasnāt unhappy when she was moved out (via Campsite) and she ended up on a friendās island.
- Molly, the insecure duckling has also left for deeper pondsā¦ she only stayed on my island for a week before she decided to pack it up. Back then I had no idea what was going on.
- Blanche was the last random that moved ināI had 2 open spots at the time and overlooked the second one, but I like her sheās got style
Then I realized I could have a say in who moved in and started looking for cute ones and sometimes they click and sometimes they donāt:
- Lopezāa deer with style and heās grown on me despite his arrogance,
- Hornsbyāwho I took some time to warm up to but heās really cute and made me smile a lot, I really have no idea why didnāt convince him to stay, the rhinos are so cute and heās the only one I met so far
- Bangleālove her, Iāll never let her move out. Tiger in a cageā¦ I know I knowā¦ of all those on my island right now sheās my absolute favorite
- Kiddāsimilar to Lopez in many aspects but he manages to get on my nerves a lot more and also he is always pretty arrogant towards other villagers especially Stitches. Last week Kidd wanted to move out and I have no idea why I let him stayā¦
- Stuāthat bull lived in a back alley and drank beer all day long and I wasnāt crying when he left. I guess if one wanted to build like an industrial or big city scenery he would be good to keep because the presents he had were fitting for that.
- Stitchesācame via campsite and pushed out Wendy so that was good. That tiny psycho teddy is even weirder than Bob. But he looks so cute in his rainbow colored shirt that I have to smile everytime he does his little Naruto run across the plaza.
- Aliceālooks cute but took some time to overcome her shyness, I find ānormalā personality villagers are quite difficult to get to know
Overall my hits were balanced out by the misses and I found out I donāt always agree with the internet at large or my friends, who play, about who are good villagers to live with.
So Iāve saved a bunch of Nook tickets for tomorrowā¦ but if I donāt find anyone I may have to resort to random.
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My personal favourites are Rex a gentle lion who likes bugs, Bianca, Agnes this cute black pig, and flurry an adorable mouse bear. My partner really likes all the frog ones - we used to have cousteau (an original one) but he left but we had wart jr so she wasnāt too disappointed.
Isnāt Flurry a hamster? Or is that what you mean with mouse bear?
Anyway, Hornsby (whose German name RĆ¼diger is just ill-fitting) has moved to my friendās island successfully and I recruited Apple another mouse bear this morning. I was hesitant because another friend already has her on her island and it feels wrong somehowā¦ but I met her on my third trip out (the other two were Snooty and Beckyāwho I considered for a few minutes but ended up deciding against her).
I am not sure about Apple but I am never sure about anything relating to these villagers. I discover all kind of weird things about myself in the process of choosing villagers. It is a bit unsettling at timesā¦
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Hamster is probably correct 
I just couldnāt think what animal it was apart from being a small bear. 
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Iāve got another rhino on my island this week-end: Spike, a cranky orange punk It seems he took a liking to me as I could already gift him something today whereas Apple who has been there two days before he moved in still wonāt take anything from meā¦ but Spike asked me what kind of music I liked and I must have given an answer he liked (Metal obviouslyāand thatās nothing but the truth).
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Sadly same poster wise of Felicityās poster.
There is a friendship point system, fruit is a point, wrapping the gift adds a point, furniture is 2 I think, trash is - point, then itās more animal specific. Once they reached a certain level there is a chance you get a framed photo. After that eventually they might have a though bubble and ask to leave, like they came to make friends, and they did so time to go somewhere else, make new friends
I love my little hamster bears, I have Flurry, Clay, and Apple. On my Island Apple fits right in, though I have a lot of Peppy personalities, Bunnie and Apple, and Merry.
I didnāt really want another peppy, but 30 nook miles tickets and nothing looked good, and someone had Apple in boxes.
Iām using my brothers Amiibo cards to try and get Bill a jock duck.
Luckily a couple years ago I got him some animal crossing Amiibo cards, and now they come in handy.
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First time I have a good price for turnips and of course itās in the morning so my friends are asleep or at work and canāt come over 
632 for another 2 hours. In case anyone comes by, hereās the dodo code: BQ9G2
Itās a little busy right now because Iāve put up the island on the turnip.exchangeāseeing how many bells I made through the site, I felt it right to give back. Also Iāve already got a few tips from my visitors and I really wanted to know what it is like opening your island like thatā¦
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And itās been fascinating.
Since I didnāt ever open my island before I had no idea how to edit the queue size and everything so I had the default settings of 4 people at once and 25 queue.
The turnip economy is completely unregulated and wild. You basically give out the dodo code and once people have it you have no control what they do with it. One can change the code by closing and reopening the gates but that takes forever and with a highprice in the morning time for people to get that price is rather limited already without any interruptions due to the horrible networking code.
The turnip exchange FAQ says this about island etiquette:
Islands often add the following rules:
- always leave via airport because otherwise itāll reset the game for everyone on the island to whatever the last safe state was
- donāt give out the code to other people
- donāt do multiple trips, allow others to sell their turnips as well
- tips are appreciated
So my visitors were on a nice bell curve regarding the above. At the upper end they are quick, do one trip and leave a tip (mostly 99k bells or 1 NT). On the lower end they make multiple trips or give the code to their friends and stay in the queue forever blocking othersā¦ luckily I can at least remove them from the queue so the next person can get the code.
I had my island open for 3 hours as an experiment, I had closed off everyting but the shops with fences in an attempt to get people to concentrate on what they were there for (selling turnips).
632 is a rather high price. I think the absolute maximum possible is 660. Even using the exchange my best so far was 599 and usually I get around 450. I always buy one full inventory of turnips and made 2.3 mio bells from turnips and another 2.2 mio bells and 8 nook tickets in tips. Which goes to show the upper end of the bell curve is rather generous seeing how many people donāt tip and how stressful it is to have the island open, I am glad Iāve always left a tip when I used the site.
Nevertheless the people who did repeated tripsāI counted up to 4 for one personāwere stressing me out. Prices change at noon and I closed my queue around 10:40 or so and that wasnāt enough time to get all 25 remaining people queued through my island because of the lower end of the curve. And that is unfair. And there is nothing I can do about it because the game was never built for this type of thing. All in all I had to pay attention to the game the whole timeā¦
I see this as far more than ājust making a few bells in a gameā. I used to play the WoW auction house quite a bit years ago and I am fascinated by game economies because they follow their own, often quite different rules. The emergent behaviors and etiquette surrounding these economies are just something that makes me think.
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Fencing off your island has gotten trickier according to my wife (@superjaz), as with the new update, visitors can enter the water from the airport dock, thus swimming around to your fenced off areas. Unless you got the whole island, in which case, nice work!
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Iāve never used the exchange, heard of it though. I donāt think I could do it with kids under foot.
Iām in 2 face book groups, one smaller.
I post there, my price, tips welcome not needed (and maybe a few things Iād like ). And all their Island name (so I can recognize anyone who tries to sneak in by being given a code.
And people post, I message them the dodo.
Sounds like more work then it is because FB messager its pretty fast.
I had 630 today and been on an hour. Maybe 10 trips in. Been gifted a couple clocks, 10 nook tickets and maybe a mil Once I got 5 gold nuggets which was awesome.
Iāve got enough $ in the bank from others letting me sell at an awesome price, and most weeks I get to see shooting stars at least once, so I try to share back when I can.
I need to check if you can swim on others islands but yeah jumping off the airport is possible.
I have to be careful, I have no storage space and lit gold money, stars everywhere
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Well if they jump off the dock they cannot get to the shops, so ā¦
Also there arenāt any areas that should have caused trouble. My stone garden is fenced in separately. As far as I am aware they cannot just take a shovel to your flowers which is what I would be concerned about most (I still havenāt managed blue roses and green whatever those are called)
Iāve been using it on and off. I donāt have facebook anymore and I donāt want to post on reddit. The exchange facilitates an almost anonymous trade which is how I like it
I think people taking advantage of others by going against āetiquetteā are doing everyone a disservice and if the percentage of idiots becomes to large it will kill the siteā¦ but by and large for now it seems to be working and the non-idiots make up for the idiots.
I had this happen with a visitor today. They rushed and said they accidently went into the water. But I canāt remove fence with visiters present so they were stuck. Sadly like mins before the price change.
I know people who have money trees as decor and or worry about people picking gold flowers, or collecting their rare beach shells or recipes.
I did really well over all, a bit over 2 mil, 10 star pieces, and 11 nook tickets and 6 gold nuggets in about an hour n a half with no tips needed (but welcome) oh and 2 cuckoo clocks.
This will probably be working for another 25 mins as my son is making reactions at the dodos, have Saharah and Celeste, no shooting stars tho
I was asleep asleepā¦
I took it upon myself to solve the puzzle that is my weather seed.
It took me quite a while though.
here's how I did it
- Thereās an app that helps you: the Animal Crossing meteorologists
- It took me several hours to āsolveā this and I learned: Quality > quantity. Correct data is more important than lots of data.
- make notes of your weather somewhere other than the app first, there really is no backup and itās likely you want to start over several times.
- Itās really hard to distinguish between different types of rainy weather and different types of cloudy weather. I had put a lot of cloudy that was actually sunny. I ended up putting āunsure sunny/cloudyā a lot.
- The only thing that is easy to determine is āclearā because zero clouds are zero clouds.
- I used screenshots I took and ignored the weather from my first week on the island.
- Donāt attempt to use anything other than the full hour +/- 10 minutes.
- Donāt use images where only a small portion of sky is visible.
- Best thing is if you know when you had previous star showers occurring or Celeste visiting (you donāt need exact shooting star timestamps).
- If for some reason you do not have enough photos. Donāt track data in the app directly, spend a few days taking pictures at full hour with the sky clearly visible before starting with the app. 3 photos a day usually narrow down the pattern enough. Good times to take pictures seem to be around noon.
The amount of data I needed was 3 star showers / Celeste visits and ~30 data points from around 14 days (non-consecutively). So in all likelyhood if you regularly take photos in the app you have enough data already.
It accurately predicted a minor star shower the next day down to the minutes and seconds of each shooting star.
It takes away the continued disappointment from missing star showers or not having any. It also predicts rainbows. After that one star shower I finally had 2 of the constellation fragments and a lot of small fragments ~15 and I know Iāll have a lot more chances in August.
This is in the same league of course as optimizing your rotation in World of Warcraft or mathing out other games, so if thatās not your thing, donāt do it. Some of the mystery of a game is lost along the way.
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My son and I checked out your island.
Your rock garden is awesome, that is the dream.
I really need to make a dream code so I can show off my dumpster fire.
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