3.2 Villagers
Neglected by the Guide, both Ninji's datamine and the game's eventflow provide details about development points in relation to animal villagers. At 8 villagers, there is no development point bonus. At 9, there is a bonus of 15 development points and at 10, there is an additional bonus of 15 development points, making a total bonus of 30 points for having 10 villagers. However, with 6 or less villagers, the rating cannot be higher than 1 Star. With 7 villagers, what would otherwise be a 2 Star rating drops to 1 Star, and what would otherwise be a 3, 4, or 5 Star rating becomes a 2 Star rating.
3.3 Furniture
The effects of Furniture on development points in this section are backed up by testing unless stated otherwise. All placed items are worth a minimum of 1 development point. This includes Housewares, Miscellaneous, all Clothing, Tools, K.K. Slider Songs, Fish, Bugs, Fossils, Artwork, and fake Artwork. The only exception is that Wall-mounted items placed on the player's door do not affect points. Items that are labeled for "outdoors" have an additional 0.5 point bonus.
Items that have a buying price of 2000 bells or more have an additional 1 point and items that have a buying price of 20,000 bells or more have another additional 1 point. This means that a placed item worth exactly 20,000 bells is worth a minimum of 3 points based on its price alone. Keep in mind that items have an internal buy price in the game's files regardless if they are actually buyable or not, likely because they are sellable and selling price is 25% of the buying price.
The Guide suggests that the size of Furniture only factors in for DIY Furniture, but this is not true. Furniture that is at least 3 squares wide (3x1, 3x2, and 3x3) provide an additional 3 development points. Combining all these factors, the highest amount of development points that a piece of Furniture can be worth is 6.5 points.
3.3.1 Furniture Variety
According to the Guide, there is a point penalty for having too many "types" of Furniture in the same 8x8 map block. The map is a 96 x 96 grid, meaning that it is split into 144 predefined blocks containing 64 squares. Also according to the Guide, one block is 1/4th of the grid squares seen on the in-game map app. The Guide states that there is a 0.5 point penalty per same type of furniture in a block starting at 5 unique types and a 0.75 point penalty per same type starting at 10 unique types. The Guide uses "Wooden chair" and "Office chair" as an example of two different pieces of Furniture of the same type. However, this could not be replicated in any tests. After testing, all of this was found to be very wrong.
In testing, it was found that the amount of unique types is not what is counted. If there are at least 6 of the same exact item in a block, then all duplicates in that block are penalized. Note that different colors and customizations are considered unique and all Sable patterns and custom patterns are also considered unique, even if they are the same exact pattern. Also note that duplicates are not penalized unless a single item is placed at least 6 times in the block, meaning that there is no way to be penalized for having 5 or less of any identical item on the island. However, once a block has an identical item 6 times, all duplicates in the block receive a penalty, even another item that is placed just 2 or more times. The first copy of the item maintains its full point value, but every additional copy is reduced in points. At 6 or more of the same item in the block, all extra copies of any item lose 0.5 points each. At 11 or more of the same item in the block, extra copies of any item lose 0.75 points each.
In addition to this, the Guide also states that 10 or more types of DIY Furniture in the same block provides a 0.75 nature point bonus per type. This has yet to be verified by either testing or datamining.
4.0 Other Rating Caps
When there are 15 or more items dropped on the ground or on top of furniture, not placed, the rating cannot be higher than 4 Stars. This does not include naturally occurring items such as Tree branches found under Trees, Shells found on beaches, and Stones found near rocks.
In addition, if there are 45 or more items placed in any single 8x8 block, meaning that 45 out of the 64 blocks are occupied by a placed item, the rating cannot be higher than 4 Stars.
5.0 Unknown Factors
There may still be unknown factors that affect the Island Evaluation. It is more likely that there are undiscovered points penalties because our tests are currently coming up a few points too high than they should.
6.0 Points Table
郑重声明：本文版权归原作者所有，转载文章仅为传播更多信息之目的，如作者信息标记有误，请第一时间联系我们修改或删除，多谢。
