I'm so excited about AC DS that I thought it would be fun to come up with towns and stuff. Now we don't have all of the details as to how it's all going to work, but I think it would be cool to start pre-production, as it were, on our towns. So do your best to advertise your towns and everything.
Boy am I bored.
First up: who wants to be in my town? I assume that only three other people will be allowed. Here's what I have to offer:
1. Awesome town name: Bojacksonville. Home of all things Bojacksome.
2. Endorsements: The only town in Animal Crossing official endorsed by Semnat. You know you want it.
3. You never know what's gonna happen: Craziness abound. The only law in my town is that there are no laws. Pure freedom! Anarchy! But who knows, maybe I'll be especially nice if we develop a certain level of trust. Craziness abound!!
4. Awesome clothing: I will personally draw awesome hats, shirts, flags, and anything else that can be created in the game, for anyone that wishes it. It'll be awesome, kids! I'm telling you right now!
5. Special appearances: Nothing is official yet, but I'm trying to get Shigeru Miyamoto and various other famous awesome people to visit my town and play with us on a semi-regular basis. I'll let everyone know if I'm successful.
And many more awesome things to come! I'm just getting started here, folks! Bojacksonville is going to be the coolest town in Animal Crossing DS, I can guarantee it. So sign up now before all of the spots have been filled! I will look at applications and announce who's going to be in my town ASAP.
Thanks for listening, and please VOTE BO!
Or something.
You can sign me up, I guess.. I just have to figure out how to get a wireless router going.
You just need a $30 wireless router that also has ethernet ports. That's it.
And I'm going to just sign you up, I'm going to consider you based off of your "application". And I gotta say, so far you've yet to convince me why Great Rumbler should be allowed to live in Bojacksonville.
Because...I've stated more often than just about anyone else that Bo Jackson and Semnat are the coolest people ever?
This still is assuming you can actually play as a character stored on someone ELSE'S DS in their town. Also, it assumes there is still a 4 character limit.
Why wouldn't it allow you to do that?
Well, I think I explained why before, but let me try again.
If you were to do that, you couldn't ever use that character until OB1 was logged in with his town on. Also, in case you are thinking "well, a copy of that town would be on both our systems", that just can't work... The towns would desynch every time you played it offline, or he did, and boom, when you link back up they are two seperate towns. Otherwise, essentially you'd have to play only when he's online... Same thing...
Nintendo is likely to not add such a feature because they don't see anyone enjoying it... Of course, visiting would still be fine.
And again, Nintendo might just solve this with either a persistant world server (you'd have to pay a fee there) or just letting us download software to set up our own PCs as persistant world servers (that's the one solution that'll actually let you guys do that, it'd be awesome).
My town will be called "THE ABONDONED FUCK MINE" and all who apply will need to spend weeks creating nude characters. ANY clothing, unless it enhances masturbation is deemed ILLEGAL by the governing bodies of "THE ABONDONED FUCK MINE". And they are:
Lisa Von Lickspole (Masturbation Commander)
John "Toblerone Bar in my Ass" Yankinda Johnson (Imperial Penis and Core Porn Regulator)
Miss. Conduct "lucy" Licivious (Acting Chief Fornicator)
Mr. Humpy (Chief Fornicator and Advisor to the King)
Rick "Bag O'Whores" Swiftfist McBlowcum (Interprator)
King lazyfatbum (good to be the king)
and of course Madam Sheetstain (Technical Advisor of Female Masturbation)
Once they have all dealt with you, I will decide the final outcome. To join, you must pay a fee of your used underwear, a picture of yourself nude (along with the nude character as I mentioned previously) and absolutely no morals what so ever.
Our flag is gold and blue and depicts a vagina going in to a train.
Our national anthem is the US anthem played backwards with sounds of sexual moaning.
Our major export is semen.
Our major import is anything of a slippery nature.
And everybody in my kingdom GETS LAID NIGHTLY
I will accept absolutely no one who does not meet the above demands.
I notice you lack any sort of military defenses... I would suggest you immediatly create a military unit and give them orders to train themselves.
*awaits response indicating something above DOES represent an amazing military defense, possibly some sort of pole dancer, an arse planted in the soldier's faces to remind them of what they are fighting for, never mind that the arse is fat, hairy, and MALE*
Well Iwata said that you'll be able to visit other people's towns, and since it would be weird to have a one-person town or a one-person and several-NPC town, I assume there will be towns saved on Nintendo servers or something. I have no idea, actually.
Right I get ya... But um, I have a feeling if they are offering it for free they won't be doing something quite like that... A one person town would be weird, but I think you'll be able to have your whole family in there the same way it worked in the GCN version.
I dunno, that sounds kinda dumb for an online game.
How so? If they didn't do that, then only one person could play a single copy of the game. If they did, then your whole family could play their own character on a single cart. What does it matter that it's an online game? It's still a good feature to add. Of course, it's the best if they own their own copies so that everyone can play AT ONCE, but you get what I mean.
Anyway, the thing is, a persistant server is EXPENSIVE. It's not just that the computer spends a little time linking up a couple people and then goes on about it's business. It has to be actually managing the entire world constantly. It doesn't need to render an image or anything, but it does need to manage the data and have the game's logic running all the time in that instance, and a LOT of other instances. I bring this up to show why MMORPGs need a fee. I would love it if Nintendo did that, but chances are, they won't... (Oh yes, they don't really NEED to have it persistant, but it'll be running whenever at least one person logs into it.) Nintendo, most likely, isn't going to see any real benefit to letting people create characters in some overall town across systems vs the cost of actually making it possible. Then again, I could be wrong and Nintendo might just be willing to do it despite the costs, but I don't think it's likely. Yes, I know we didn't believe that Nintendo would do much online anyway, but I'm not sure how that effects what I should think on THIS issue :D.
Anyway, here's what I think here. Maybe Nintendo will do it, I don't think so right now, but Nintendo could make some announcement in the next few months that shows they are doing it. But, ya know, if I assume they will and they don't, the more likely thing right now, then I end up disappointed. If I assume they don't and they do, then I'm ecstatic (and if I assume they don't and they don't, then I'm still happy).
All I'm saying is, don't expect it just yet and don't make any plans.
...And I gotta wonder if you can even get that long a town name :D...
Dear DJ,
Thanks for ruining my fun and shattering my dreams with your "reality" and "facts". Darn you. Darn you to heck!
Sincerely,
OB1
Reality and facts?! What would I need those for! What I did was smash my head into the keyboard randomly and then clicked submit, you know, like I always do.
Dear OB1,
What was with that weird letter? That word didn't make any sense! I was reading it aloud next to a locked chest I never had a key for, when suddenly the thing just opened! The whole thing freaked me out! Anyway, I thought you might as well have it. Here!
From,
DJ
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Dear DJ,
YOU CAN'T BUY ME OFF WITH CHEAP TRINKETS! Especially one that's probably as abundant as stationary in your town. Cheap ass!
The End,
Daniel
They could set it up where each person can have their own town on their DS and also have a list of of other towns you belong to on other people's DS and when that person is playing you are given the option to go to their town. Maybe!
Well as long as I can still vandalize other people's towns...
Yeah, that would be awesome. Are you listening, Nintendo?
Well maybe they should set it up so that you can choose. You know, the only way to be able to attack their town is to activate your own town's openness to attack. Then, you can instantly ruin their town with their anger the SECOND they actually attack your town, or enable their town to be open to ransacking themselves.
There, that's a compromise that works for everyone.
...
I don't think that'll happen.
You know what would be awesomer than awesome? A Four Sword/Animal Crossing game. Blend the two games and you'd have the most awesomely chaotic, friendship-ruining game ever created. Imagine living in a small town like AC, doing the stuff you do in the game, but you can run into people's homes and break their furnature, etc. Throw their pots and lamps all over the place. Or burn their entire house down!! Then you could all go adventuring to randomly-generated dungeons and collect ruppees to repair your damn house.
That's my dream game, right there.
OB1, hurry up and make a game like that! I have faith in you!
Maybe, maybe. I could see how fun it would be to make something like that, but I'd rather just play it. :D