The Offical Animal Crossing: City Folks Thread.
02-27-09, 11:04 AM
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Re: The Offical Animal Crossing: City Folks Thread.
I don't think it was designed to be like this. It makes no sense. The only explanation is that there is an error in the game code that Nintendo didn't catch before the game went gold.
02-27-09, 11:47 AM
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Re: The Offical Animal Crossing: City Folks Thread.
So, how long does it take for grass to grow back? I wouldn't mind if you even had to go around and water every little bit to get it back at this point... but I guess that doesn't work. At my work I see the trailer to this game loop and I envy how beautiful the town looks... all green and lush. 
02-27-09, 12:01 PM
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Re: The Offical Animal Crossing: City Folks Thread.
I think it had good merits, but the problem with a game like animal crossing is the testing phase. You have people burst test it over a couple of months, most likely time traveling to check all of the stuff, but this breaks the game. Without sitting on the completed game for a full year, they just can't see how people will really play it. Thus they play for a week or so at most, don't wear the ground too much, then time travel to summer to check all of the seasonal changes, this grows their grass back, so the testers don't get annoyed like consumers have. I have a feeling no one at Nintendo had even SEEN a desert town during testing, yet that is the norm in reality. It's just a flawed testing process for such a casually time intensive game. I think that the wear speed is fine, it's the regrowth that's the problem. It needs to be two weeks for grass to grow back, and then one week if sped up by flowers. This would be completely acceptable. either that or they need to add fertilizer and sprinklers into the game!
02-27-09, 12:19 PM
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Re: The Offical Animal Crossing: City Folks Thread.
New DLC, or ANY DLC for that matter, could fix the problem. Sod or grass seed is the best idea.
You could buy it from nook and plant it like a flower. Next day you have brand new grass or early growth.
But I have a feeling its broken and will remain broken.
You could buy it from nook and plant it like a flower. Next day you have brand new grass or early growth.
But I have a feeling its broken and will remain broken.
02-27-09, 01:16 PM
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02-27-09, 02:38 PM
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Yup, I can't imagine them patching this. The worst part is you can't just jump ahead 2 months and then jump back. You have go one day at a time for 2 months to regrow your grass. That is abysmal. And yet, here I sit contempating whether I will do that. I would just pull all my hybrids into my house so they don't die and let the rest wilt.
And then when I go around replanting flowers I'll probably end up killing my grass again. I will be walking around like crazy catching fish and bugs once March and April come around and all the new stuff is introduced.
And then when I go around replanting flowers I'll probably end up killing my grass again. I will be walking around like crazy catching fish and bugs once March and April come around and all the new stuff is introduced.
02-27-09, 05:57 PM
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I doubt if there will be a patch. The designers seem to think it is a cool feature!
http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/accf/vol1_page2.jsp
http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/accf/vol1_page2.jsp
02-27-09, 07:41 PM
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I would rather have a nice grass town, than the "realistic" feature of grass wearing away in a time killer game like this.
02-27-09, 07:48 PM
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I doubt if there will be a patch. The designers seem to think it is a cool feature!
http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/accf/vol1_page2.jsp
http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/accf/vol1_page2.jsp
02-27-09, 07:57 PM
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Actually in the interview I believe he states it would START to grow back after one day, but it would grow back slowly over time. He used the anecdote about the villagers houses leaving a patch of dirt when they leave and as the grass grows your memory of them fades. Unfortunately every time you step on a dirt spot, you reset the new growth.
02-28-09, 11:19 AM
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Re: The Offical Animal Crossing: City Folks Thread.
Not sure if anyone else was in the same boat as us, but we had a horrible week on the Stalk Market. Holding out and holding out, and only having time for one or two trips to Aaron's town when he had profitables. Anyway, got on today, and our turnips are currently 127. So if anyone just want to almost break even, come on over, we'll be online off and on during the day and evening. Our Nooks closes at 9 Eastern. I'll check here later on in case anyone makes a request for a gate opening! Hopefully next week will be better!
02-28-09, 01:07 PM
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Re: The Offical Animal Crossing: City Folks Thread.
Not sure if anyone else was in the same boat as us, but we had a horrible week on the Stalk Market. Holding out and holding out, and only having time for one or two trips to Aaron's town when he had profitables. Anyway, got on today, and our turnips are currently 127. So if anyone just want to almost break even, come on over, we'll be online off and on during the day and evening. Our Nooks closes at 9 Eastern. I'll check here later on in case anyone makes a request for a gate opening! Hopefully next week will be better!
02-28-09, 01:15 PM
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Re: The Offical Animal Crossing: City Folks Thread.
Not sure if anyone else was in the same boat as us, but we had a horrible week on the Stalk Market. Holding out and holding out, and only having time for one or two trips to Aaron's town when he had profitables. Anyway, got on today, and our turnips are currently 127. So if anyone just want to almost break even, come on over, we'll be online off and on during the day and evening. Our Nooks closes at 9 Eastern. I'll check here later on in case anyone makes a request for a gate opening! Hopefully next week will be better!
02-28-09, 02:29 PM
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Re: The Offical Animal Crossing: City Folks Thread.
Not sure if anyone else was in the same boat as us, but we had a horrible week on the Stalk Market. Holding out and holding out, and only having time for one or two trips to Aaron's town when he had profitables. Anyway, got on today, and our turnips are currently 127. So if anyone just want to almost break even, come on over, we'll be online off and on during the day and evening. Our Nooks closes at 9 Eastern. I'll check here later on in case anyone makes a request for a gate opening! Hopefully next week will be better!
03-01-09, 11:32 AM
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Re: The Offical Animal Crossing: City Folks Thread.
Woohoo! New fish and bugs finally! It looks like I need to focus on growing hybrids now since certain bugs are only attracted to them.
03-01-09, 06:07 PM
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Re: The Offical Animal Crossing: City Folks Thread.
Today is the first day i've played in a few weeks because i've had the flu. It's sicking to see how bad my town looks now that the snow is gone. I have a few patches of grass but the most part, it's a desert.
It looks so bad, it makes me not want to play anymore. Nintendo really dropped the ball on this. It's a shame and disgrace you can have grass on the Gamecube version but not on the Wii version.
It looks so bad, it makes me not want to play anymore. Nintendo really dropped the ball on this. It's a shame and disgrace you can have grass on the Gamecube version but not on the Wii version.
03-01-09, 08:03 PM
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I wrote to Nintendo complaining about this. They informed me it's a feature. I told them I know it's a feature, but it is a broken feature. Great.
03-01-09, 08:04 PM
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By the way, here are the new insects for March:
Common Butterfly
Flear
Honeybee
Ladybug
Peacock
Spider
Tiger Butterfly
Yellow Butterfly
Fish:
Loach
Common Butterfly
Flear
Honeybee
Ladybug
Peacock
Spider
Tiger Butterfly
Yellow Butterfly
Fish:
Loach
03-02-09, 07:35 AM
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I doubt if there will be a patch. The designers seem to think it is a cool feature!
http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/accf/vol1_page2.jsp
http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/accf/vol1_page2.jsp
Anyone want to set up a petition for this?
http://www.petitiononline.com/create_petition.html
03-02-09, 08:14 AM
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Re: The Offical Animal Crossing: City Folks Thread.
I'd even be happy if they just made all of the grass reappear after each rain. This sucks! But I'm still enjoying the game. :-)
03-02-09, 08:22 AM
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Re: The Offical Animal Crossing: City Folks Thread.
What is the key to the fountain? When I toss my axe in I am asked if I threw in a gold or silver. Do I always say Gold and hope to get a gold back?
03-02-09, 08:46 AM
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No you have to be honest. It is VERY hard to get the axe. It took me over 60 tries.
03-02-09, 10:48 AM
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I've been trying for weeks with no luck! I got the gold watering can today so I am happy! I never planned on chopping down a bunch of trees anyway. :-)
03-02-09, 04:07 PM
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Re: The Offical Animal Crossing: City Folks Thread.
I'm not sure if it really matters what your response is, but I have seen videos showing someone getting the gold axe when their response is truthful (saying that you threw in a normal axe).
03-02-09, 04:38 PM
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Re: The Offical Animal Crossing: City Folks Thread.
With the day off for the snow, I decided to try and fix my town's grass. After visiting each day for three months straight, I gave up. While a lot of the grass is back, there are still plenty of splotchy areas, especially in spots without flowers that had heavy traffic before all the time travel. Oh well. At least my town is mostly green.