Island Reflections

[einschwartz]

Does anybody regularly visit other people's islands? Why would you? Theirs will look almost the same as yours because there's very little ability for customization at all.

Starting the island a week later, I initially visited my friends island just to see what it would look like at certain ranks. Other than that, yeah there is no reason to.

The landmarks could be a place to RP. I personally love the tree house and it could be a nice dating spot with my partner.
But then you have the mammets...

[Jojoya]

The landmarks could be a place to RP. I personally love the tree house and it could be a nice dating spot with my partner.
But then you have the mammets...

This comment explained a lot for me. SE obviously wants to discourage ERP in the Hideaway.

I sincerely hope in the next update to IS that we can build a place that will be an actual home for the WoL (even if it can't be decorated housing style) and mammets will be prohibited.

I also wonder how the JP player base is getting along with the plethora of mammets. It will help if many of them have the same complaint.

[LianaThorne]

This comment explained a lot for me. SE obviously wants to discourage ERP in the Hideaway.

I sincerely hope in the next update to IS that we can build a place that will be an actual home for the WoL (even if it can't be decorated housing style) and mammets will be prohibited.

I also wonder how the JP player base is getting along with the plethora of mammets. It will help if many of them have the same complaint.

If you think an audience/being watched will stop people from ERPing...lmao. Highly encourage you to do some research on the term Exhibitionist in the fetish sense.

[Deo14]

I also wonder how the JP player base is getting along with the plethora of mammets. It will help if many of them have the same complaint.

This is just from quick lurking on JP forums from highly upvoted comments using translator, take it with grain of salt:

Seems like JP is onboard with too much mammets, no feeling of inhabited island and lack of customization. They also expected more casual and relaxed atmosphere instead of factory/management simulator, even though many like the management simulator.

There are also suggestions for:
- more active minigames like fishing or cooking (fishing specifically is mentioned frequently)
- possibly some RNG elements when gathering
- weather forecaster
- color coded node marks and other small QoL changes
- more uses of green cowries, including conversion of cowries
- customization in general (dyes, rotate buildings, stairs for windmills)
- personal house dedicated to player, not just weird shop with bed
- change orchestrion on the move
- sprint on/off
- gather materials when you're on friend's island
- retainer bell
- improvements for controllers

They seem to also talk about caves under island, which would be logical new expansion to the island. Some would prefer if areas of the island could be unlocked later, instead of being able to go anywhere from the start (with few areas that you can reach only with flight).

[Krotoan]

This is a strawman argument and not a particularly clever one. Most people weren't expecting Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, or a replacement for housing.

...

A more genuine Animal Crossing experience would have been great.

Hi. it was mentioned specifically in both cases.


Is the content perfect or even engaging to most people? Nope.

However the complaints being leveled in many cases are either gripes that it isn't .. well.. animal crossing, or that it's not an entire set of standalone content with engagement for weeks.

Both of which miss the entire point.


There are lots of things to improve and I hope the content gets developed for a while, but when I see people specifically say things like that repeatedly? Yep, gonna say something.

[dspguy]

DEVs: "Don't expect Animal Crossing".

Players: "Why isn't this Animal Crossing?"



It's like a skit. I swear.

Reminds me of housing:

Devs: Lottery won't solve housing supply.
Players: Why doesn't lottery solve housing supply!?

[Deveryn]

Very much a skit, also reminiscent of the old bike meme

[Darthgummibear]

Very much a skit, also reminiscent of the old bike meme

Coming from the guy who in his own words compared IS to a browser game, that's hilarious.

[xenahawk]

I do like the island sanctuary and the fact that you can basically do as much or little of it as you need to. No personally i feel like the green currency is basically pointless. It would have been a nice balance if the green tokens paid for the stuff in the santuary like the "automation" and even those seed to plant. I know i bulled through leveling my island which felt teadious but honestly i liked doing it and if that isnt your cup of tea you can just grab what you basically plan to use and let the leveling happen passively since work orders, daily missions from the granery, collecting leavings and crops all give nice chunks of xp. I hope since they plan to add to it that that means there will be more options for players to customize the look more this way players dont feel all the islands appear the same

[Krotoan]

SE: Don't expect a replacement for housing
SE: Don't expect Animal Crossing

Gee, SE, what should I expect then? At this point I expect nothing and still get a half baked idea. lol

Things they actually said:
You will be able to let your minions roam around.
The content will be separate from the main game.
It is your own private island.
These things happened.
.. *shrug*

DEVs: "Expect a casual experience"

DEVs: "here is an extreme grind that will force you to look up guides to get the rewards before the next tier of rewards is released and you're way behind"

Let's not pretend it's exactly what the devs said to expect.

what.. reward tier have I missed yet? What am I behind? it's been out all of 2 weeks. I've been playing it super casually (maybe 30 minutes a day) and I'm top rank and just accruing cowries for rewards and well on my way towards the most expensive reward available. Where is the "extreme grind"?

In all seriousness what in the heck are you talking about?

DEVs: "Expect a casual experience"

Players: Have to rely on others to reverse engineer weather patterns and then setting alarm which is rarely inside prime hours just to get chance at getting 1 out of 10 weather depended animal (which are also bugged btw), while also having to rely on workshop calculator/make your own excel sheet because game won't simply allow you to open supply and demand window with recipe window simultaneously.

You mean .. if you wanted NOT to experience it casually or figure out any of it by yourself right?

The animals aren't going to go away forever as far as we know and honestly the reward for having "rare" animals is... basically cosmetic at best.

None of what you said is necessary and someone engaging it casually will get the same rewards someone who white knuckles it (you really AREN'T supposed to do this btw) and optimizes will, just slower.



This is almost exactly what I said on another thread. People are engaging this like bleeding edge raid release or the feast rewards and it aint.




The content is supposed to be a super slow burn with minimal engagement and discovery and all I see are complaints about people optimizing the fun out of it for themselves and then complaining that they did.