also misericordiae@kbin.social

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Cake day: March 3rd, 2024

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  • So, I feel like 2, maybe with 3 in certain high-traffic areas, would be a good idea, for a couple reasons:

    1. increased visibility for vehicles, particularly in places with a lot of pedestrians, who might not all have their own lights or be too inebriated to use them.
    2. nighttime socializing outdoors, such as markets, streets with lots of nightlife, plazas, etc. Sure, small personal lights could become incorporated into fashion, but those also need to be powered, and would have to illuminate faces without blinding anyone. Public lighting just seems easier.
    3. less isolating for night shift workers (if that’s a thing in the world you’re writing).

    Could even have 2 shut off in quieter neighborhoods that have no open businesses during the wee hours.




  • I don’t really min/max profit too much when I play, so I might not be the best person to ask, but I’ll try to give you some things to consider!

    For year 1 (not year 2) Spring, I’ve seen a lot of people suggest either parsnips or potatoes. Parsnips get you farming XP faster–plus you get gold star turnips for the community center–but potatoes are higher profit per plant, so you won’t have as many energy issues trying to water everything. Also, you might want to save up some money for the Egg Festival…

    Btw, fishing can be a good source of fast cash, if you don’t mind the fishing mechanic.



  • If you’re having fun, you’re doing what you should be. If you’re getting bored, however, and you’re past Spring 5, there’s a couple of things you might have missed:

    • You should have a quest or two in your log to give you a goal or two. Not sure what the button to open the quest log is on switch, but there should be one.
    • Some days, the Help Wanted board outside Pierre’s will have a villager request you can do. You won’t be able to do all the requests at this point, and they do have a 2 day time limit, but the money and friendship are nice early on.
    • Have you been checking your mail? You should have gotten a letter asking you to come by a place. ::: spoiler Willy’s fish shop :::
    • Also in the mail: you should have gotten a notice that a new area has opened up. ::: spoiler the mine :::
    • Enter town from the bus stop between 8am and 1pm on a non-rainy day for an important cutscene. If you’ve already seen it, but don’t know how to progress, make sure to look around inside, especially at shiny things. ::: spoiler the community center :::

  • I’ll second all of these, especially the lack of scrollbar and “expand text post in feed” button, and the hidden like/dislike buttons. The like/dislike vs upvote/downvote thing is tricky; I don’t have a good solution for it, but maybe different icons that don’t read as up/down would work.

    Also, from a quick poke at things:

    • There doesn’t seem to be a way to switch the “For You” feed away from card view. I think it’s fine if you want to make it a separate view setting from the main page, but I’d like to be able to change it to my view of choice.
    • I’d like to see the post/comment body text tweaked for better readability: higher contrast against the background, a touch more space between lines, and a lighter weight (regular or medium) would all make reading long posts more pleasant, imo.
    • In compact view, if I expand the attached image, there doesn’t seem to be a way to shrink it back down, as clicking again opens the post.
    • When viewing a post, there’s a community sidebar on the right with all the rules and such, but that info is missing from the actual community detail page.
    • The community sidebar on the post page scrolls separately from the rest of the post, which is weird to me on desktop. Giving it an “expand” button might be a good compromise, so you don’t have the weird case of short post/long sidebar unless the user explicitly asks for it.
    • Navigating front page > post page > community detail page, and then hitting back on the browser twice returns me to what the nav bar tells me is the front page, but only that one community’s posts are shown. Refreshing or clicking “front page” fixes this, but it’s a little confusing the first time.
    • Navigating front page > community detail page doesn’t trigger a… page load, I guess? My browser (firefox) doesn’t recognize the community detail page as a separate page, so I can’t hit back to go back to the main feed. Instead, I have to either refresh or click “front page”.

    Overall, though, this is super impressive!