Thoughts from a 24 year Animal Crossing veteran

I enjoyed the beta over the weekend, but I have some suggestions. Since I've played an unrelated game for a long time, my criticism should be held in high regard.

Base building is fun, but nowhere near the levels of customization and player agency that base building in Animal Crossing gives you.

For example, when I place a bunker in the FOB, there's no option to change the color or wallpaper of the hesco blocks. There's also an incredibly limited amount of furniture to place. What we do is made of barbwire and sandbags (not cozy).

I do think the economy is pretty well balanced right now. I was able to get enough bells fairly quickly to upgrade my FOB from Tom Nook within a couple matches. I wish we could earn more though ways like fishing and bug catching. There's a lot of trees and water, seems like dev oversight that it's not already implemented.

A couple additional thoughts:

• my villagers kept leaving doors open and hostile villagers would ruin my house. • the store should rotate tools more frequently. I kept seeing hammers and defibs, but no shovels, bug nets, or slingshots. • No cute clothes, or even the option to draw our clothes (nintendo did this in 2002 ). • RPGs should do more damage to tanks. I think the devs have a real gem on their hands, and I hope they take my critiques into serious consideration over the next couple weeks to really make this game work.