How to play yoville

I can write a long winded post and maybe I will but I really have been obsessed with this since I found it recently and since it's fairly "new" it's kind of exciting to be joining everyone who has been here or recently joined as well. Hi. Because everyone is entitled to their opinions, I'd like to share this post and my reasoning why I love this game and see a lot of potential that I hope the devs continue. I don't know too much about the studio so please enlighten me if there's anything I should know, I've done a bit of research as i've been obsessed.
Background: I am a self taught and classicaly trained coder and graphic designer, and visual arts teacher for pk-12. I have been doing character design and landscape design since preteen years when I pirated photoshop and got a sketchbook that wasn't a lined notebook. I mod and write code from scratch, and collect assets as a hobby. I grew up with the sims, roller coaster tycoon, sims city, weeworld, yoville, runescape.
SO. Reasons why I think Palia is amazing so far, can only be improved,

1. The building mechanics blew me away for the type of game it is. I love base building games and while I haven't played as many as I'd like to because of the selection there is, in such a short time I've seen mechanics that impress me beyond say what EA is doing for The Sims, a well known game with a cult following. The simple grid and rotation system alone blows sims out of the park, and that's up to sims 4. No, the camera capabilities are not the same, but come on, at some point you gotta accept that the games are simply their own games. The decorative capabilities i've seen online and in game through my own progression keep me excited. This game will rely a lot on imagination, and finding your own fun. That's the beauty of cozy games.
2. This game is only MMO if you want it to be. Sure you can run around and see others in the game and not interact and thats a big complaint I see here. RP and MMO games are made through its players. Soon, events will be added streamlined by the devs. But, you can plan events now. You can use the server chat and organize stuff. You can create a community and take it further and build a friends list. You make your experience. Whenever i'm online I see people calling out trees and filling requests and answering questions. Despite what seems to be the case for some, this community is not toxic. We are all here to play a cozy game. A few bad apples will not discourage a community of fun. Even if you dont want top play with others, players can still help your journeys by filling requests and going hunting or foraging with you.
3. It's really easy to play however you want. You can focus on farming all day, go try and date some peeps, decorate for hours, or just resource hunt. It's just monotonous, and that's amazing.

Given more thought and time as the game develops I'm sure a more fleshed out perspective would appear but I like this game and don't be discouraged if you do too :)
Now i'm gonna go play Palia because my house was just built. Yay!
Why do you like the game? What are you excited for? Tell me!
Edit @ 4pm 8/24:
I do not care to discuss what this game is lacking. I KNOW. I read so many posts each day about it, and experience a lot of frustrations myself. Why the f can't I swim bro? Personally, there are a LOT of things I would like to see and would enjoy to have already been implemented because I PLAY GAMES and see a lot of stuff. Some things certain games do better than others. Some don't. THIS IS WHAT IS OBVIOUS. I. Do. Not. Care. To. Discuss. Why. This. Game. Is. Lacking.
The game can only improve as developers release new content, fix bugs and implement suggestions and fine tune an already great start to an amazing game with lots of possibilities. Then, mods will emerge and make the payer experience more enjoyable.
I loveeeee this game, and thats my opinion. I literally wrote OPINION in the title so you can SCROLL if you DONT AGREE so you don't have to WASTE YOUR TIME trying to CONVINCE me that the game I enjoy is not so enjoyable. If you want to comment how its not as good as x,y,z, this post obviously isnt for you. My absolute favorite game in the world is the sims franchise. I religiously play sims 2 or league. I only got a cpu for sims. Don't play w me. I am excited for a farming life dating foraging story sim that I can play third person. Get off my post if you wanna complain because I can write a list of complaints for every game I play, but i'm NEW to PALIA and I ENJOY IT. SUE ME.

So doing the Marie kondo method somehow really helps me I don't know about my parents yes and no
I am going to see if they want to clean the things I threw out the basement
I think they are narcissistic or have traits however
I am still in a mess why the did everything and good things to teach my children I have some thoughts but I want to know more.
But the biggest thing I realized as there were so controlling during my teenage years not really taking much from when I was little and how scared I secretly became of them of breaking any of those rules
my experimentation of myself I think became very muddled I put anything in my room that made me happy even for a split second. I was not allowed to paint the walls. I had to turn the door down to watch movies. My pre teen years were very moderated. When I started finding love for years it was more of to find a escape of reality then to find someone.
I fell in love with a strange cat-fisher on a game called yoville he called me only a friend but gave me a fake picture he kinda pretended was him and sent me in game wedding rings???
In the game instead of exploring a more mature or even experimental; personality I role played a baby who liked pink a color I do not like anywhere on me
The whole time in my teens it seemed I was not trying to explore myself I had bigger problems but remain happy by finding interests I might like
Even now
I don't really know what I want to wear that would make me happy and confident I can summon some images but can describe it well enough for a search engine maybe for a person but not a search engine
Poetry writing made me very happy but I cant describe any poem that gives me a elated joy
The closet
I don't know what songs I find joy though some make me feel a semblance of happiness
I don't even know what art gives me joy
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And I only have 3 books looking back that give me joy
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I think I might be finding joy from one hat its making me smile
I feel like I was using things to hide just how much I didn't know
I currently feel frustrated because its a lot of stuff
I am way more minamlistic now but I still feel like a cave of things I don't share
and I feel like a lot is related to my parents
Like I am programmed
and then all of a sudden I kinda drowned in all the opinions of everyone else as my reality is not what it seems
it looks all idealistic or so very realistic but its really I guess in between?
What I am saying is has anyone have a similar experience where I am being vague but all abuse including control
has distracted you from what you really love? What brings you joy? You feel like so behind everyone else and though that is simplistic its like you couldn't focus on understanding you identity, your voice, and so alot of stuff is confusing to you
like its like your racing to figure yourself out and your interests because your so behind and that in turn has made you skills suck
because you only have seen the happy the in between
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I only own only one possession that clearly sparks joy to me and that is my blue cruiser bike and even then sometimes I cry on it
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I just want to know if this is normal I talked to someone that was kinda my therapist for a while and though she was very wishy washy with what I said probably because as I was so confused she didn't no how to to precede and as I struggled to make sense at what I was thinking and feeling at the time. She thought the reason I still wanted my parents gone was that I was robbed of that experimental teenage time and needed it and would never get it with them back I was frustrated at the time she said this as I felt it was way more important then that
and that true but I think that's part of it.
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Anyone going through this realization too?
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Like I know I am 22 but I feel like more people at my age know a little more about there selves then me I feel like I am still in that experimental phase.

• Total budget and country of purchase: 400 in Canada
  
• Do you prefer a 2 in 1 form factor, good battery life or best specifications for the money? Pick or include any that apply. Any
  
• How important is weight and thinness to you? not at all
  
• Which OS do you require? Windows, Mac, Chrome OS, Linux. none required but windows preffered
  
• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. N/A
  
• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. Mostly for flash/shockwave games (facebook games such as yoville)
  
• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? N/A
  
• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? would PREFER to avoid the Celeron processors and stick with something in the i3,i5,i7 series but budget is more important. Would again prefer an SSD hard drive but again not required due to low budget
  
• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.
  

So there was this little girl anime character this the second time I dreamed of being one though she didn't seem as stable as the other one with her personality... I don't remember the full dream I remember the fact that the little girl had a deep story. Then all of a sudden she conquered her sadness or fear thanks to someone helping her. It seems like something happened and everybody was moving out of a ship to a a giant ancient tree or Noah ark it was something with a dome in the dream she was left alone in the boat scared to death as everyone had already left and had forgotten her who was left was her mother a women with burgundy clothing and a old face that looked like her heart had been taken along ago... she left without her. But suddenly there was this man who saved her and about 4 others who were enemies of the group of people. The others worried when they found out she wasn't there. The villains to her to the dome so many people had saved the people on the ship so they gave then money a nd brought then on top of a platform but some refused to come or hid around the space. In fact the villains left and when she called for them to come get there prize they ran away only leaving a old lady that had also helped her. Then she decided to give the people money so by scaring them by acting as if she had a gun she hoped to get then to come out so she could give then them the money that looked like those gold coins you get from saint patricks day that have chocolate in them. She talked to some of the survivors about this and a women who was african american (As am I) But wearing a maybe blue-green bolly wood headdress had said that it was now thought of as a african tribal thing... which weirded conscious me (I can normally think in my dreams..) and the character that I will call lily out. But the women just laughed. Suddenly the dream gets weirder and Lily talks about how she used to play yoville a game I used the play and had my user name... and the guy plays with a iphone showing lily some Internet things she didn't know about and is weirded out by the theme that just changes...

So it's been a while since I've owned pokemon, the last game I owned that was pokemon was Gale of Darkness and hardly played it. As for the handhelds the last versions I owned Was Gold, Silver, Crystal back when they were released. I have played ruby/sapphire as a rom and I think I tried diamond/pearl. I know I tried pokemon black. They all seemed the same to me just a new story line and new pokemon but the way 3DS looks I'm thinking about picking that up and plus there's a new type.
I have a few questions.. Will all the older pokemon be in this game or just like the new ones and if you wanted the older ones you would have to do something in order to obtain them?
Are they going to mention stuff that was in previous games in which I won't understand when coming across them?
Anyone know how their online play is? Is it just like the older versions where you just link up with friends or will it be more like you can walk around like a yoville kind of thing and just battle random people?