The characters disappearing from the map or not being in their houses is number one for me. I'm also annoyed with the half a$$ed deployment of the search function. Um, how about adding that to the Scrooge Store and the cooking menus? And I'd also like to turn off all spawnables in a certain biome. It annoys me that my perfect plaza will look overgrown because of random rocks and oregano. I have hundreds of these things, let me have a nice plaza for a second, please!
Yes to all of the above! The search bar was a good first step, but it definitely needs rolling out to everything else! And you’re sooo right about the spawnables. A quick toggle to turn them on or off would make decorating so much easier!
The memory orbs are not only annoying but I don't even get memories from dried flowers anymore, if I do it's always coins!!! My biggest pet peeve is getting the RIT DLC I don't always have a lot of time to play and it's already time consuming trying to harvest stuff from both valleys, I would love Moanas boat, and beasts flower stall, kristoffs stall to have their own version on the dlc so I can quickly go by and collect pre collected flowers, fish, and rescources without feeling overwhelmed for the day.
You’re absolutely right, Brittany! I wish we had versions of those for the DLC, too. It makes sense, given that we have Scrooge’s and Remy’s. It feel like a bit of a missed opportunity and can make gathering EI resources even more difficult!
Especially as we start to get more DLCs, I agree. Moana’s fishing boat is the biggest one for me. I always need fish from the dlc and it’s such an inconvenience to go get them most of the time
Number one for me is the spawning objects in each biome, as mentioned in another comment. Its made me not bother decorating my valley anymore as its so depressing to spend hours decorating a biome just to come back the next day and find rocks, big mushrooms and bones all over the place. I wish we had the choice to turn these off! Number 2 would definitely be memory orbs giving coins!
I totally get that, Michelle! At some point you just have enough resources, so it would be great to turn them off. I was decorating for a DreamSnap the other day and as soon as I placed some trees I had wood blocking parts of the map I wanted to place things. It doesn’t take long to move it, but I wish we could have the option to turn it off!
So for the disappearing villagers issue, i have noticed that if you have a quest that requires a villager, that villager will be prioritized to be walking around outside. This has become an issue for me however as there seems to be a limit to how many villagers can be outside at one time. I don't want to rush through the game, but some of my favorite villagers are constantly locked inside their house or just not in the map due to the game prioritizing villagers that I have active quests with. I think a good solution would be to not have any sort of prioritisation but instead make it that if you go into a villagers house, they will always be there. That way you can always find who your looking for and all your villagers get to walk around outside whenever I exit a building
That is a great suggestion! I feel like that should be an easy implementation for Gameloft, as even if the characters are in the restaurants or the store, they should just port across to their houses since you can't access those areas from inside the houses anyway. Great idea! 💜
The glide option is worlds better for Playstation controller. Having the button that close to the camera made it impossible and hurt my hand. The switch seems to have the same problem now though. They need to have options or let us map it ourselves.
I personally don’t think it’s that bad. It does take a minute to retrain your hand and brain to use that button, but once you get used to it I find it quite nice. The biggest thing that helped me make the change was using both joysticks to move the camera as I glide now. It makes it SO MUCH easier to see and control where you are going. Sometimes I still find myself holding the new button and the old one 😂 but overall I think it is a good change. (I’m a Switch player if that wasn’t clear)
Yes, a recipe search option while cooking or at least a tab for just the meals the characters want. I agree completely the map view needs an overhaul. Would love to get icons for Chests and a character search feature that highlights/centers on their location. Another improvement I'd like to see happen is each Biome having unique weather conditions like Frosted Heights currently does.
YES to the weather options, David! They did a great job with the Frosted Heights and I love that it snows there when it's raining. A little weather toggle would be perfect, I'd love to have autumn up in the Forest of Valor!
One of my biggest pet peeves so far, is just how limited Touch of Magic is. There's not enough clothing to experiment with, ombres are insufferable to work with when trying to make false layers, we can't make true layers, we can't make motifs tiny(I really want to finally have a dress that matches the wizard hat with tiny stars so badly), and honestly the whole thing just needs fine tuning and expansions to be made for it.
You know, I totally get that! I don't use ToM as much as I should (I've been meaning to play around and try it out!) but it does seem a little difficult. I'm a designer, so I'm used to working with layers and all of that sort of UI, but it seems quite difficult for a total newbie to get the hang of. I did make a jumper a few months ago and I was disappointed with how big the smallest motif options were 😔
That's just it, I'm not even a newbie, been playing since the beginning even if there was a time I wasn't due to loss of a PC. I have been catching up over the past couple of months since getting a Victus to replace the Lenovo that nuked itself. Nevertheless I know what I'm doing for the most part with Touch of Magic. But I'm still frustrated by the lack of variety and limitations that make things difficult or impossible. I even tried making some Sleep Token inspired clothing the other day, only for the motifs to be way too big even on the smallest setting. Just wasn't gonna happen with how big the motifs still are.
I actually haven't checked this since the last update. BUT the way you literally CAN'T find items you crafted at the crafting table. MAKE A TAB FOR CRAFTED ITEMS!!!
I totally agree with the tasks suddenly becoming difficult once you have it. Mirabel stalks me all the time, no matter where I am, there she is. Then when I need her for the star path, she is gone from the world! I just do the new Map button thing and she will be sent to her house, but yeah. It is not so fun when I have the stupid Capybara quest and she won't come find me, or the critter won't appear until an hour later
@@OscarsCosyCornerDont i know it hahah! Im still stuck on it! Waiting for the red one, and it only comes on saturdays apparently. Mirabel better not be gone from the map then, oof! Btw, your valley looks pretty!
@@janelemoon Yes, the Saturday one was most difficult as I wasn't available for multiple week! I hope you get it soon! Thank you so much, I'd love to say that's true - I just have a very tidy Plaza and the rest is a mess! 😂
@@OscarsCosyCornerHahah! It has taken me months ooops! This saturday though!!! I bet your Valley is as messy as you say. Your char looks dapper and the background pretty! - Also who says a valley needs to be prestine anyway 😂
Definitely the new button configuration, the glide makes me insane. I have some paralysis in my left hand and it really makes it difficult. I did love that they made the time bending and fishing more accessible though. I would love to have the old glide back. Also on the switch, the crafting menu is a nightmare, search on there would be so nice.
Ahhh, I'm so sorry to hear that it's made things more difficult for you! I'm classic Gameloft style, they take with one hand and give with the other 😆 Fingers crossed for some custom button mapping some time in the future! 💜
Memory Orb - I think that the orb spawns with a RNG piece in it. I do not think it takes into account what you already have. After talking to a few players, it seems that some pieces are more likely to spawn than others. (Based on a multiple of us missing the same pieces) If you collect the orb, it checks to see if you have the piece already. If you do, you get a consolation prize of coins instead of getting nothing. So basically, it's a lot of RNG. An RNG chance for the orb to spawn in the first place. Then, an RNG for which piece the orb contains, with some pieces weighted more heavily to appear. *RNG = Random Number Generator (like rolling dice)
Oh no! I'm sorry you're having trouble, Ravana. I've not run into too many issues using it so far, though it does just seem to respond to the exact name for me, there's not really any contextual searching going on!
Characters not on the map is horrible. It took me 4 different days to give gifts to Buzz for the star path just because I could never find him. When they updated the Characters to never sleep I think that messed everything up. Also on Switch all of the sudden I can't scroll through my inventory making me restart the game. And the search menu - I don't know which items are quirky- I just want to type in bench
I'm sorry that you've been having trouble! Unfortunately Switch has always seemed to be a little temperamental and the devs just really can't seem to get on top of it. Let's hope that the October improvements help a little! 💜
Gameloft gaslighting me and getting abused by other players just for trying to solve the missing inauguration ribbon mystery. Why are people ignorant and mean about it? And when is the inauguration ribbon going to show up in the Scrooge store on a regular basis for all players? At this point Gameloft needs to just bundle the inauguration ribbon with the evil queen outfit and sell it in the shop and be done with it.
I'm sorry that you're having issues! As far as I am aware, the ribbon is still part of Scrooge's stock - but I believe that the RNG is making it extremely rare. But I do agree, the Evil Queen needs to be back in Scrooge's!
@@OscarsCosyCorner thank you. It just boggles my mind, as it seems like someone would’ve gotten the ribbon by now, after 1000’s of trips there?! So if it’s still in Scrooge store the the RNG is broken as it should definitely NOT be more than 1000 trips to get it? More than 1000 trips basically means it’s not in the Scrooge store! Hahaha
All of these are absolutely annoying, as well as the pouches thing from chests. Why are they bothering with the pouches? I used to get excited for them, but now they seem worthless unless you like getting nothing but repeats 🫤
I agree, Angela! The clothing pouches aren't that great, since I have all of the clothing in the game. I would love to see some "pouch-exclusive" items though, that you can only get from the pouches! I feel like that would be a great incentive to keep collecting them 💜
@OscarsCosyCorner that's how it used to seem in the beginning. Players couldn't wait to get those pouches but it was HARD to get anything but coins. Then they changed it and said nothing was exclusive anymore making pouches no longer exciting 😒
The characters disappearing from the map or not being in their houses is number one for me. I'm also annoyed with the half a$$ed deployment of the search function. Um, how about adding that to the Scrooge Store and the cooking menus? And I'd also like to turn off all spawnables in a certain biome. It annoys me that my perfect plaza will look overgrown because of random rocks and oregano. I have hundreds of these things, let me have a nice plaza for a second, please!
Yes to all of the above! The search bar was a good first step, but it definitely needs rolling out to everything else! And you’re sooo right about the spawnables. A quick toggle to turn them on or off would make decorating so much easier!
The memory orbs are not only annoying but I don't even get memories from dried flowers anymore, if I do it's always coins!!! My biggest pet peeve is getting the RIT DLC I don't always have a lot of time to play and it's already time consuming trying to harvest stuff from both valleys, I would love Moanas boat, and beasts flower stall, kristoffs stall to have their own version on the dlc so I can quickly go by and collect pre collected flowers, fish, and rescources without feeling overwhelmed for the day.
You’re absolutely right, Brittany! I wish we had versions of those for the DLC, too. It makes sense, given that we have Scrooge’s and Remy’s. It feel like a bit of a missed opportunity and can make gathering EI resources even more difficult!
Especially as we start to get more DLCs, I agree. Moana’s fishing boat is the biggest one for me. I always need fish from the dlc and it’s such an inconvenience to go get them most of the time
Number one for me is the spawning objects in each biome, as mentioned in another comment. Its made me not bother decorating my valley anymore as its so depressing to spend hours decorating a biome just to come back the next day and find rocks, big mushrooms and bones all over the place. I wish we had the choice to turn these off! Number 2 would definitely be memory orbs giving coins!
I totally get that, Michelle! At some point you just have enough resources, so it would be great to turn them off. I was decorating for a DreamSnap the other day and as soon as I placed some trees I had wood blocking parts of the map I wanted to place things. It doesn’t take long to move it, but I wish we could have the option to turn it off!
I had the exact same problem!
When I’m trying to plant vegetables and the characters walking on the ground that I wanted to plant the seeds.
I hear you! 💜
So for the disappearing villagers issue, i have noticed that if you have a quest that requires a villager, that villager will be prioritized to be walking around outside. This has become an issue for me however as there seems to be a limit to how many villagers can be outside at one time. I don't want to rush through the game, but some of my favorite villagers are constantly locked inside their house or just not in the map due to the game prioritizing villagers that I have active quests with. I think a good solution would be to not have any sort of prioritisation but instead make it that if you go into a villagers house, they will always be there. That way you can always find who your looking for and all your villagers get to walk around outside whenever I exit a building
Great suggestion!
That is a great suggestion! I feel like that should be an easy implementation for Gameloft, as even if the characters are in the restaurants or the store, they should just port across to their houses since you can't access those areas from inside the houses anyway. Great idea! 💜
Crafting needs a search too
YES! Search bars all round! 💜
The glide option is worlds better for Playstation controller. Having the button that close to the camera made it impossible and hurt my hand. The switch seems to have the same problem now though. They need to have options or let us map it ourselves.
I personally don’t think it’s that bad. It does take a minute to retrain your hand and brain to use that button, but once you get used to it I find it quite nice. The biggest thing that helped me make the change was using both joysticks to move the camera as I glide now. It makes it SO MUCH easier to see and control where you are going. Sometimes I still find myself holding the new button and the old one 😂 but overall I think it is a good change. (I’m a Switch player if that wasn’t clear)
I would definitely prefer a custom mapping option - although I'm not sure how likely that would be!
Yes, a recipe search option while cooking or at least a tab for just the meals the characters want.
I agree completely the map view needs an overhaul. Would love to get icons for Chests and a character search feature that highlights/centers on their location.
Another improvement I'd like to see happen is each Biome having unique weather conditions like Frosted Heights currently does.
YES to the weather options, David! They did a great job with the Frosted Heights and I love that it snows there when it's raining. A little weather toggle would be perfect, I'd love to have autumn up in the Forest of Valor!
One of my biggest pet peeves so far, is just how limited Touch of Magic is. There's not enough clothing to experiment with, ombres are insufferable to work with when trying to make false layers, we can't make true layers, we can't make motifs tiny(I really want to finally have a dress that matches the wizard hat with tiny stars so badly), and honestly the whole thing just needs fine tuning and expansions to be made for it.
You know, I totally get that! I don't use ToM as much as I should (I've been meaning to play around and try it out!) but it does seem a little difficult. I'm a designer, so I'm used to working with layers and all of that sort of UI, but it seems quite difficult for a total newbie to get the hang of. I did make a jumper a few months ago and I was disappointed with how big the smallest motif options were 😔
That's just it, I'm not even a newbie, been playing since the beginning even if there was a time I wasn't due to loss of a PC. I have been catching up over the past couple of months since getting a Victus to replace the Lenovo that nuked itself.
Nevertheless I know what I'm doing for the most part with Touch of Magic. But I'm still frustrated by the lack of variety and limitations that make things difficult or impossible. I even tried making some Sleep Token inspired clothing the other day, only for the motifs to be way too big even on the smallest setting. Just wasn't gonna happen with how big the motifs still are.
I actually haven't checked this since the last update. BUT the way you literally CAN'T find items you crafted at the crafting table. MAKE A TAB FOR CRAFTED ITEMS!!!
I hear you! I've never actually noticed this, so I'll have to check it out later today! Thanks for the heads up!
I totally agree with the tasks suddenly becoming difficult once you have it. Mirabel stalks me all the time, no matter where I am, there she is. Then when I need her for the star path, she is gone from the world! I just do the new Map button thing and she will be sent to her house, but yeah. It is not so fun when I have the stupid Capybara quest and she won't come find me, or the critter won't appear until an hour later
Right?!? It makes me feel like I'm losing it! 😆 The capybara quest took me sooo long to do as I kept missing it - not fun!
@@OscarsCosyCornerDont i know it hahah! Im still stuck on it! Waiting for the red one, and it only comes on saturdays apparently. Mirabel better not be gone from the map then, oof! Btw, your valley looks pretty!
@@janelemoon Yes, the Saturday one was most difficult as I wasn't available for multiple week! I hope you get it soon! Thank you so much, I'd love to say that's true - I just have a very tidy Plaza and the rest is a mess! 😂
@@OscarsCosyCornerHahah! It has taken me months ooops! This saturday though!!!
I bet your Valley is as messy as you say. Your char looks dapper and the background pretty! - Also who says a valley needs to be prestine anyway 😂
Definitely the new button configuration, the glide makes me insane. I have some paralysis in my left hand and it really makes it difficult. I did love that they made the time bending and fishing more accessible though. I would love to have the old glide back. Also on the switch, the crafting menu is a nightmare, search on there would be so nice.
Ahhh, I'm so sorry to hear that it's made things more difficult for you! I'm classic Gameloft style, they take with one hand and give with the other 😆 Fingers crossed for some custom button mapping some time in the future! 💜
Memory Orb - I think that the orb spawns with a RNG piece in it. I do not think it takes into account what you already have. After talking to a few players, it seems that some pieces are more likely to spawn than others. (Based on a multiple of us missing the same pieces)
If you collect the orb, it checks to see if you have the piece already. If you do, you get a consolation prize of coins instead of getting nothing.
So basically, it's a lot of RNG.
An RNG chance for the orb to spawn in the first place.
Then, an RNG for which piece the orb contains, with some pieces weighted more heavily to appear.
*RNG = Random Number Generator (like rolling dice)
Thank you so much for sharing! That makes a lot of sense and I can see how the coins would spit out in place of a memory pice that you already have!
The searchbar in the inventory is basically useless. Even when I use the specific item name or theme name it says not found.
Oh no! I'm sorry you're having trouble, Ravana. I've not run into too many issues using it so far, though it does just seem to respond to the exact name for me, there's not really any contextual searching going on!
Characters not on the map is horrible. It took me 4 different days to give gifts to Buzz for the star path just because I could never find him. When they updated the Characters to never sleep I think that messed everything up. Also on Switch all of the sudden I can't scroll through my inventory making me restart the game. And the search menu - I don't know which items are quirky- I just want to type in bench
I'm sorry that you've been having trouble! Unfortunately Switch has always seemed to be a little temperamental and the devs just really can't seem to get on top of it. Let's hope that the October improvements help a little! 💜
Everything mentioned is legit annoying 🤭🤭🤭
Such little things, but so frustrating! 😆
Gameloft gaslighting me and getting abused by other players just for trying to solve the missing inauguration ribbon mystery. Why are people ignorant and mean about it? And when is the inauguration ribbon going to show up in the Scrooge store on a regular basis for all players? At this point Gameloft needs to just bundle the inauguration ribbon with the evil queen outfit and sell it in the shop and be done with it.
I'm sorry that you're having issues! As far as I am aware, the ribbon is still part of Scrooge's stock - but I believe that the RNG is making it extremely rare. But I do agree, the Evil Queen needs to be back in Scrooge's!
@@OscarsCosyCorner thank you. It just boggles my mind, as it seems like someone would’ve gotten the ribbon by now, after 1000’s of trips there?! So if it’s still in Scrooge store the the RNG is broken as it should definitely NOT be more than 1000 trips to get it? More than 1000 trips basically means it’s not in the Scrooge store! Hahaha
I hate the new glide button since w I have a switch
I'm sorry that it's been giving you trouble! 😔 Let's hope one day we can have button mapping choices 🤞
All of these are absolutely annoying, as well as the pouches thing from chests. Why are they bothering with the pouches? I used to get excited for them, but now they seem worthless unless you like getting nothing but repeats 🫤
I agree, Angela! The clothing pouches aren't that great, since I have all of the clothing in the game. I would love to see some "pouch-exclusive" items though, that you can only get from the pouches! I feel like that would be a great incentive to keep collecting them 💜
@OscarsCosyCorner that's how it used to seem in the beginning. Players couldn't wait to get those pouches but it was HARD to get anything but coins. Then they changed it and said nothing was exclusive anymore making pouches no longer exciting 😒