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I have four hundred hours in AC: NH and only 4 pieces of art
- Thread starter m4st4
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It's absolutely nuts that Redd can easily show up with all fakes, and in the few times he's shown up for me, at most one legit piece of art.
And that except for a few obvious fakes, you have to look them up to be sure.
And that except for a few obvious fakes, you have to look them up to be sure.
You're right. Visitors like Label and Leif can easily fit in the current shops, while visitors with mystery items like Sahara and Kicks are more unique. Therefore desirable to other players.
Total playtime doesn't really factor in to your art colection. You can play 10 hours on a day Redd didn't visit, and then five minutes on a day he is there and increase by one piece. I am resigned to just understanding my museum will only be complete after years, if ever.
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Damn. I might actually say fuck it and do this, for the sake of art! Lol.
Thanks so much for helping and in such detail. đź‘Ś
Edit: just to clarify, I understand my total time playing has nothing to do with Redd, but wanted to add it to the whole story to show just how ridiculously unrewarding it is to play for so many hours and to get such a tiny window of mere opportunity to get an art piece. The grind? It's real. Thay's why I mentioned my playtime.
100 hours in. In that time, ive seen him
Once, is he supposed to show up at a set time or is it bullshit fucking rng whether or not he will show at all like everything else in this game?
Once, is he supposed to show up at a set time or is it bullshit fucking rng whether or not he will show at all like everything else in this game?
Playing everyday since release, only got Redd on my island twice. Huge mistake from Nintendo for making him one of the characters that do not have a specific day to show up on you island. Also even on games with RNG like this there is always a pity timer of sorts, which I'm sure Nintendo did not implement because reasons.
it's not really relevant to list how many hours you've played because a) he didn't show up until two months in and b) he's either there that day or he isn't. you're still going to play.
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They need to find a way to make this work in a fixed way, a la KK on Saturdays. That way people who already did most of the hard work within the game can just specifically login on certain days to get what they need.
But it's Nintendo. Basic stuff eludes them.
I mean, fuck all of this if my save file gets corrupted right? I specifically bought Nintendo Online for a whole year just to be able to save this game... And I cannot. Cloud doesn't exist.
Stuff like that is just baffling to me. Prehistoric even. Might get Blathers to investigate.
But it's Nintendo. Basic stuff eludes them.
I mean, fuck all of this if my save file gets corrupted right? I specifically bought Nintendo Online for a whole year just to be able to save this game... And I cannot. Cloud doesn't exist.
Stuff like that is just baffling to me. Prehistoric even. Might get Blathers to investigate.
It's completely random, that's why you have to check every day and pray his boat is there.
Once he's in your island you have all that day to buy whatever you want from him.
Yes, that's normal. Your progress on a lot of things has nothing to do with how many hours you've played. You could play 24/7 for half a year and not finish your paintings or golden shovel just because the characters you need only show up once every couple weeks.
Yeah, about the same for me. Maybe I have 5?
I was just chatting about the game with my girlfriend last night, who is also an avid player. And how this game preys on a feeling of FOMO to keep you playing. The game is unintuitive as hell and seems designed to string you along - not just with the infrequency of Redd visits, but how often you get repeated crafting recipes, how long it takes to construct multiple items, how you can't buy fish bait, how tedious the dialogue is, and a whole host of other stuff that's been pointed out by others ad nauseam in previous threads.
Yet, I find myself still steadily playing because I know that if I abandon it, deleterious things will happen. My villagers will move, weeds will grow, and I'll miss out on other opportunities. I've completed the fossil museum (how nice is it that I still have to get fossils analyzed before I can sell them for decent cash, though?), but I don't even want to think about how long it would take to complete the art gallery. My girlfriend has only had Label visit her island once despite playing the game daily since March. It's fucking stupid.
I was just chatting about the game with my girlfriend last night, who is also an avid player. And how this game preys on a feeling of FOMO to keep you playing. The game is unintuitive as hell and seems designed to string you along - not just with the infrequency of Redd visits, but how often you get repeated crafting recipes, how long it takes to construct multiple items, how you can't buy fish bait, how tedious the dialogue is, and a whole host of other stuff that's been pointed out by others ad nauseam in previous threads.
Yet, I find myself still steadily playing because I know that if I abandon it, deleterious things will happen. My villagers will move, weeds will grow, and I'll miss out on other opportunities. I've completed the fossil museum (how nice is it that I still have to get fossils analyzed before I can sell them for decent cash, though?), but I don't even want to think about how long it would take to complete the art gallery. My girlfriend has only had Label visit her island once despite playing the game daily since March. It's fucking stupid.
Same. Last week he didn't even have any real ones, so now I just have a forged Girl with a Pearl Earring in my house. One piece a week is just way too slow, especially this far after release when it's a lot to ask me to play every day to catch him, so I often end up missing whole weeks.
There are definitely some wonky things that they could easily fix by altering a few parameters, like:
- The appearance rate for Redd, as you mentioned - I'd also add Gulliver, I feel like I never see him even though I check the beaches every day
- The very low spawn rate for Summer Shells, which just seems silly considering how many you need to craft all of the shell recipes
- The spawn rate for big star pieces - I think I've only found one of these on any given day, even the day after my island has a meteor shower where I wish on over 100 stars.
- The appearance rate for Redd, as you mentioned - I'd also add Gulliver, I feel like I never see him even though I check the beaches every day
- The very low spawn rate for Summer Shells, which just seems silly considering how many you need to craft all of the shell recipes
- The spawn rate for big star pieces - I think I've only found one of these on any given day, even the day after my island has a meteor shower where I wish on over 100 stars.
I've always had a problem with Redd in the franchise, but it's even worse in New Horizons since he wasn't in at launch. I feel like I missed out on seeing him when I was playing more pre-patch. Now that he's in the game, I haven't seen him since his first visit.
celeste is stupid fast so she can BE in your island and you don't find her because she moves from place to place....
i lost the track of how many times i trapper her with holes when i received visits to talk to her
