Jeff's ACCF Blog

As I walked around town tonight, I saw Kaitlin. For those who don’t know, Kaitlin is a mother cat who is looking for her daughter. Her daughter will be in one of your Wi-Fi friends’ towns.

She told me her daughter is in Hyrule, which is ToonZelda’s town. So ToonZelda will need to bring her daughter to my town and then a little story scene will play out, where they reunite and the mother thanks the person who brought her daughter back to her.

This episode might be mildly entertaining the first time it happens, but it keeps happening. Again and again. Every few weeks, you’ll find either the mother cat or the kitten in your town (if you play on Wi-Fi) and it gets very annoying. They’ll disappear on their own, but only after a full week.

The worst part for me is that I’m trying to shoot the UFO down because I still need (and want) most of Gulliver’s items. And the UFO will not show up when one of the cats is in town. I really hate the missing cat sequence and wish it was optional.

Anyway… I talked to Del tonight and he wanted to change my nickname from “boss” to “shorty.” No way! He got mad and sarcastic when I declined, and made me enter a new nickname. I wasn’t feeling very creative at the time, so I just told him to call me “dude.” Frankly, I could do without the greetings and nicknames you have to come up with. Just let me pick the catchphrases and I’ll be fine.

Del asked me to catch a tiger butterfly for him yesterday, but I didn’t see one yesterday. So by today, I almost forgot about it. But then I saw one flying by, and I thought “Oh yeah! I need that!” So I caught it and took it to Del. He gave me a beach chair as a reward.

As for the paths I was considering yesterday, I did read and consider all your comments you guys left on Facebook. You guys all made some good points, but I ultimately decided to go with green. For the red and blue fans, don’t worry, I will likely use those paths at some point in the future. It’ll only take me about five minutes to swap the colors. But for now, green is my lucky color. 😉

I started putting the patterns down today. I’m not doing the whole town at once, just part of it each day. It’ll probably be a few days until I’m done, but I should definitely have it done before I open my gate again next Friday night. I’m really liking it so far. It makes my town look new again.

I started up the game today and got a goodbye letter from Pango. She is officially gone. I grabbed a bunch of random flowers and planted them in the dirt patch left by her missing house so the grass can regrow quicker. I also dropped off 99,000 bells (of the 150,000+ I earned last night) for Scott so he can pay money towards his next house expansion.

Then I decided to play around with the idea of a new path. Back a month or two ago, I jokingly suggested I’d make black and red paths. Bushy actually liked the idea so I wondered if it would actually work. I gave it a try with black as the main path and a red border. Then I also tested the same thing with green and blue borders. I actually like the black paths, they almost have a neon look to them, which I really like a lot. Reminds me a bit of Moonside (if there are any Earthbound fans reading).

I haven’t decided which of the three I’ll go with just yet. I’m actually leaning a bit towards the green, but red is still in the running too. For whatever reason, the blue isn’t doing it for me this time. Maybe because I had blue last time (blue border on white path), so I’m wanting to go a new direction. Feel free to leave comments on what you like or don’t like.