History VideoGame / AnimalCrossingPocketCamp

** Nat the chameleon, whom in the mainline games hosts the Bug Off during the months of June, July, August, and September, is completely absent from this game, leaving Chip free to host fishing tournaments all year 'round.

** When monthly Seasonal Events were implemented in November 2018, the Fishing Tournament became this. Originally lasting a whole week, it now lasts only approximately five days before Chip packs up the event, putting far more focus on the arguably more difficult Garden and (to a lesser extent) Gyrodite events which in comparison last ten and six-plus days respectively out of the entire monthly event. Only rarely will the Fishing Tourney last an entire week, and in this case it only happens during special events, such as for ''Splatoon'', Mar10 Day, and Halloween.

** When monthly Seasonal Events were implemented in November 2018, the Fishing Tournament became this. Originally lasting a whole week, it now lasts only approximately five days before Chip packs up the event, putting far more focus on the arguably more difficult Garden and (to a lesser extent) Gyrodite events which in comparison last ten and six-plus days respectively out of the entire monthly event.

*** After the garden event comes the Gyrodite Scavenger Hunt, which lasts between six to twelve days. Gyrodites spawn at the various locations and you have to scoop up as many of them as you can and craft limited-time furniture using them. Rarely, the Gyrodites are replaced with other objects, such as clams, mushrooms, or eggs.

* UndesirablePrize: When talking to animals at the campsite, one or two of them may decide to give the player a gift. One of these is a stash of materials and event items, including the hard to obtain Essences (especially with the majority of Essence rewards being given out as Blathers maps as of February 2019), the other is a shockingly low number of Bells (either 500 or 2,500). With Bells being easy to obtain through playing the game normally, that second reward can feel worthless if you've played for long enough and stockpiled thousands if not millions of Bells.

* GiveMeYourInventoryItem: At the end of every gardening event, the NPC host will either ask for or blatantly demand the special flowers and any Rare Creatures you still have on hand. They repay you in bells.

** When late September 2019 rolled around and everyone was wrapping up collecting Truffles, he wasted no time in hijacking the app and filling it with Halloween imagery. The initial load screen now has his face and several spooky objects plastered on it, the Friends list is now decorated with a dark interference, and the Events tab shows and is introduced by Jack instead of Isabelle. The push notifications are also re-written as if they were stated by Jack himself.

** In 2018, after wrapping up the Gardening event of October, he hijacks Chip's fishing tournament a few days later to host his own, complete with candy fish.

** When monthly Seasonal Events were implemented in November 2018, the Fishing Tournament became this. Originally lasting a whole week, it now lasts only approximately five days before Chip packs up the event, putting far more focus on the arguably more difficult Garden and (to a lesser extent) Gyrodite events which in comparison last ten and eleven days respectively out of the entire monthly event.

* ElegantGothicLolita: Lottie dresses in such an outfit as part of Lottie's Gothic Rose Event. The player can also earn a gothic lolita dress and other wearables if the capture enough bats during the event.

** The garden event is notorious for this, despite being split into two parts (Part 1 is the first four days, part 2 is the last six) to avoid overwhelming players during the event launch. First of all, to attract rare creatures (required to claim rewards) you have to plant seasonal flowers, the seeds of which appearing as RandomlyDrops from [[FetchQuest completing animal requests]] (only one among the available seasonal seeds can be bought, but it's a common request reward anyway). Nope, you can't cross-pollinate to obtain them. Next, once the seasonal flowers bloom, which can take from 3-4 hours depending on the flower type, there's still a chance that a creature won't spawn on a newly-bloomed flower, with rarer ones having lower spawn rate. Now we come to the catching part, which has a chance to ''fail'', with higher failure rate on the rarer creatures (go figure). Having active friends share their captured creatures with you can help with the creature availability problem (as long as you keep your garden filled with flowers), but nothing can fix the catch rate problem except [[BribingYourWayToVictory paying 10 Leaf Tickets]] to guarantee you catch ''one'', which can become costly if you use it to catch too many. It's even worse on the second half of the event where the final two creatures share the same flower type, so you can only hope that the 3-star rare creature shows up during flower bloom, even if it's just one. Thankfully, the harder a creature type can be obtained, the lower the requirement to claim all the rewards associated with the specified creature, but you still need a whopping ''80'' three-star creatures caught within six days to get everything the event has to offer. If you want all the rewards, good luck. You'll need it.

* {{Microtransactions}}: There are many opportunities to pay money for conveniences, like speeding up furniture and amenity production, increasing inventory space, and catching a large number of bugs or fish at once.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: The clothing options are the same as they are in ''New Leaf'', so males can wear dresses and skirts and females can wear pants and shorts, among other things.

*** First, a garden event hosted by an NPC- lasting for an entire ten days. The events involve attracting "rare creatures" to your garden (typically exotic insects themed after the event, or the occasional WaddlingHead) by using special seasonal flowers and catching them. As a reward, the NPC gives out bonus items, furniture, and clothing. Doing extra nets you recolors of previously earned prizes.
*** After the garden event comes the Gyrodite Scavenger Hunt, which lasts about the same time. Gyrodites spawn at the various locations and you have to scoop up as many of them as you can and craft limited-time furniture using them. Rarely, the Gyrodites are replaced with other objects, such as clams or eggs.
*** Finally, for five days to one week, Chip sets up shop at one of the game's two fishing spots and invites the player to participate in his Fishing Tournament, which lasts all week long.
* UndesirablePrize: When talking to animals at the campsite, one or two of them may decide to give the player a gift. One of these is a stash of materials and event items, including the hard to obtain Essences (especially with all Essence rewards being given out as Blathers maps as of February 2019), the other is a shockingly low number of Bells (either 500 or 2,500). With Bells being easy to obtain through playing the game normally, that second reward can feel worthless if you've played for long enough and stockpiled Bells.

* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Inverted. The Choco-Mint event used Carmen (a brown and mint green bunny villager) as the representative for the corresponding Happy Home missions.

* WelcomeToCorneria: Chip, the host of the monthly fishing tournaments, suffers a horrible case of this. Apart from the rare times a crossover (''Mario'' or ''Splatoon''-themed, for example) is the theme of the tournament, his dialogue never changes- remaining the same since the implementation of Fishing Tourneys. You can also go and talk to him the day after the last day of the tournament, and he will always give the same response every time.

** When monthly Seasonal Events were implemented in November 2018, the Fishing Tournament became this. Originally lasting a whole week, it now lasts only approximately five days before Chip packs up the event, putting far more focus on the arguably more difficult Garden and Gyrodite events which in comparison last ten and eleven days respectively.

** During the Fishing Tourney, you can rent the golden rod using Leaf Tickets (wears off after the event is over), allowing you to always catch two event fish at once, thus allowing you to progress quicker compared to other players who don't rent said rod.

* ButThouMust: Most of the dialogue choices in the tutorial are just rephrases of each other.

** The player starts out being able to hold up to 100 miscellaneous items (fruits, fish, insects, and shells), which is much more than the standard ''Animal Crossing'' games allow for, but will still fill up fairly quickly. The capacity is increased at certain level-ups and with Leaf Ticket purchases, up to a max of 300 (as of version 1.3.0).

** A player can only keep up to 1,000 furniture items in their inventory.

* CarnivoreConfusion: As usual for the series, this is avoided, with fish being the only meat that anyone is shown eating. Although some of the craftable food items fall into this, such as the turkey... requested by a chicken character.
** Not to mention the Cowhide Rug.

** October 2018 saw an event in honor of the upcoming ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee,'' where Poké Balls were collected and used to craft Eevee-themed clothing and furniture.

* ItemCrafting: For the first time in ''Animal Crossing'', ordering furniture items from Cyrus will also require certain crafting materials such as cotton or logs, which you can get by doing quests for animals and completing in-game goals. (Leaf Tickets can also be substituted for any materials you don't have.)

* WholesomeCrossdresser: The clothing options are the same as they are in ''New Leaf'' so males can wear dresses and skirts and females can wear pants and shorts, among other things.

*** The player can plant, harvest, and water multiple flowers at the same time, much like the "Cap. Many" option only available during garden events.

** The garden event is notorious for this, despite being split into two parts to avoid overwhelming players during the event launch. First of all, to attract rare creatures (required to claim rewards) you have to plant seasonal flowers, the seeds of which appearing as RandomlyDrops from [[FetchQuest completing animal requests]] (only one among the available seasonal seeds can be bought, but it's a common request reward anyway). Nope, you can't cross-pollinate to obtain them. Next, once the seasonal flowers bloom, which can take from 3-4 hours depending on the flower type, there's still a chance that a creature won't spawn on a newly-bloomed flower, with rarer ones having lower spawn rate. Now we come to the catching part, which has a chance to ''fail'', with higher failure rate on the rarer creatures (go figure). Having active friends share their captured creatures with you can help with the creature availability problem (as long as you keep your garden filled with flowers), but nothing can fix the catch rate problem except [[BribingYourWayToVictory paying 10 Leaf Tickets]] to guarantee you catch ''one'', which can become costly if you use it to catch too many. It's even worse on the second half of the event where the final two creatures share the same flower type, so you can only hope that the 3-star rare creature shows up during flower bloom, even if it's just one. Thankfully, the harder a creature type can be obtained, the lower the requirement to claim all the rewards associated with the specified creature, but you still need a whopping ''80'' three-star creatures to get everything the event has to offer. If you want all the rewards, good luck. You'll need it.

*** After the garden event comes the Gyrodite Scavenger Hunt- Gyrodites spawn at the various locations and you have to scoop up as many of them as you can and craft limited-time furniture using them. Rarely, the Gyrodites are replaced with other objects, such as clams or eggs.
*** Finally, for one week, Chip sets up shop at one of the game's two fishing spots and invites the player to participate in his Fishing Tournament, which lasts all week long.

** Getting villagers through Gulliver. Gulliver has 18 unique villagers he can bring back, three in physical form and fifteen in the form of Villager maps that then must be played with Blathers. However, in order to get said villager/map, Gulliver has to give you a bonus, which may or may not happen depending on which items you give him or due to sheer luck.

** Getting villagers through Gulliver. Gulliver has 13 unique villagers he can bring back, three in physical form and ten in the form of Villager maps that then must be played with Blathers. However, in order to get said villager/map, Gulliver has to give you a bonus, which may or may not happen depending on which items you give him or due to sheer luck.

** InsultOfEndearment: Is Peanut calling me a "slacker?"

* BribingYourWayToVictory: During the Fishing Tourney, you can rent the golden rod using Leaf Tickets (wears off after the event is over), allowing you to always catch two event fish at once, thus allowing you to progress quicker compared to other players who don't rent said rod.

*** After the garden event comes the Gyrodite Scavenger Hunt- Gyrodites spawn at the various locations and you have to scoop up as many of them as you can and craft limited-time furniture using them.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: The garden events. The garden event's host tells you to plant a certain type of seasonal flower in your garden, and those flowers attract "rare creatures" which the host wants for a certain purpose that varies from host to host, but under must circumstances is a simple party. Simple enough. But you never actually ''give'' them any creatures; instead, you give the creatures to your friends, which makes even less sense because the creatures still have a chance to flee when your friends attempt to catch them. And ''the hosts themselves'' gives you rewards for giving creatures to your friends instead of them.

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* ViolationOfCommonSense: The garden events. Using Lottie's Gothic Rose festival as an example: Lottie tells you to plant Gothic Roses in your garden, and those flowers attract bats which Lottie wants for a party. Simple enough. But you never actually ''give'' Lottie any bats; instead, you give bats to your friends, which makes even less sense because those bats still have a chance to flee when your friends attempt to catch them. And ''Lottie herself'' gives you rewards for giving bats to your friends instead of her.

** The garden event is notorious for this, despite being split into two parts to avoid overwhelming players during the event launch. First of all, to attract rare creatures (required to claim rewards) you have to plant seasonal flowers, the seeds of which appearing as RandomlyDrops from [[FetchQuest completing animal requests]] (only one among the available seasonal seeds can be bought, but it's a common request reward anyway). Nope, you can't cross-pollinate to obtain them. Next, once the seasonal flowers bloom, which can take from 3-4 hours depending on the flower type, there's still a chance that a creature won't spawn on a newly-bloomed flower, with rarer ones having lower spawn rate. Now we come to the catching part, which has a chance to ''fail'', with higher failure rate on the rarer creatures (go figure). Having active friends share their captured creatures with you can help with the creature availability problem (as long as you keep your garden filled with flowers), but nothing can fix the catch rate problem except [[BribingYourWayToVictory Leaf Tickets]]. It's even worse on the second half of the event where two creatures share the same flower type, so you can only hope that the 3-star rare creature shows up during flower bloom, even if it's just one. Thankfully, the harder a creature type can be obtained, the lower the requirement to claim all the rewards associated with the specified creature. If you want all the rewards, good luck. You'll NEED it.

** Each month, there is a garden event hosted by an NPC- lasting for an entire week. The events involve attracting "rare creatures" to your garden by using special seasonal flowers and catching them. As a reward, the NPC gives out bonus items, furniture, and clothing.
** Also on each month, typically the week following the Garden Event, Chip sets up shop at one of the game's two fishing spots and invites the player to participate in his Fishing Tournament, which lasts all week long.