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As for the two residents playing together, I know you can do it on the regular switch and I’m assuming it’s the same for the Lite as long as you can sync a second controller.
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I think it's cheating yourself of the experience that Nintendo crafts. Animal Crossing is a real-time game that is meant to be played over the course of a full year to experience all of the content. Any online game like Fortnite where half the playerbase got events from Halloween in March would be seen as cheating. Why is this not any different?
It doesn't harm anybody and the cheaters are welcome to cheat to play the game they want to because it is inherently a single-player game, no matter how much trading you can do. Time travelers are just like people who play games with trainers. There's nothing wrong with it, that's just how they have their fun with the game – by cheating.
It doesn't harm anybody and the cheaters are welcome to cheat to play the game they want to because it is inherently a single-player game, no matter how much trading you can do. Time travelers are just like people who play games with trainers. There's nothing wrong with it, that's just how they have their fun with the game – by cheating.
I definitely agree that it depends what you're TTing for, but I believe that people should be able to play however they want without being called this or that for it. I paid $60 for this game, so you bet I'm going to play it however I please. Overall I wouldn't consider it cheating, and I think the namecalling and arguing is a bit unnecessary because at the end of the day it's not that deep. It's literally a video game, that is meant to be fun and cute, and the gatekeeping is truly getting old quickly :<
A time changing option has been included on purpose, in every game since the N64. Nintendo has had over 20 YEARS(not days, weeks or months, lol) to "fix" this. The fact that they haven't and don't care to tells me all I need to know about this "problem".
To my knowledge duping was patched in maybe the 2nd week or something not 100% sure.
Edit: oh didn't see the other replies woops
This is one of the reasons I decided to reset my island now and catch up through time traveling. In a couple of months from now I'll have very few hours in the day for myself and I'm probably not going to spend most of them playing New Horizons... The first few weeks are filled with so much content and then it's just waiting for events and doing your own routine. I'd be more discouraged if there was continuous progress.
I'm happy with how the game was laid out. The events will keep me coming around. Unfortunately, I am the type of player who binges, and then pauses. I already took a 10 day hiatus, but once I picked it up, BOOM I was instantly hooked again. This style of playing works against you in Animal Crossing, which relies on you playing at various times of day, seasons, and on holidays... Especially once I start working again, I will only be able to play on weekends, or weekdays after 8PM.
First I wanna say I'm sorry I don't remember how to use a spoiler and here is my wall of text.
I am okay with time traveling and have even done it myself. I liked the way that in New Leaf it really felt okay to do because of the in game clock and also the villagers acknowledging that you have been time traveling. It felt like a somewhat natural part of the game. While it wasn't intended, it didn't exactly feel taboo to me. Now in New Horizons it just makes me feel super dirty because I have to change my whole system clock. I have done some minor time traveling in this game as well. I reset my island about 5 days after release and didn't want to feel left behind by everyone else and my family who also play the game, but I was miserable on my first island, so I time traveled a few days while completing the basic beginning tasks to catch up again. Then within the past few weeks I did time travel a little bit to move some villagers in and out of my town but just for myself. I don't sell or trade villagers. In all honesty I do feel guilty about it, but I don't want to. While I may not be a doctor or a nurse for sick people around the world, I am still an essential employee and I am so tired and stressed from work and online classes. I'm constantly afraid to get sick but at the same time I don't feel like I can quit my job and screw over my coworkers or stop helping the people that need help from us. I come home some days and I want to cry and don't feel like ever leaving my house again, but instead I get on animal crossing and play with all of the cute villagers that I love. I don't want to come home after a long and busy shift and have to play the game with a bunch of animals that I hate or find out that I missed the fishing tourney and will have to wait months to participate because right now this is one of the few things that keeps me sane and happy while the world is suffering. I have since stopped time traveling of course and I don't use it for any other purposes now because I have a town of villagers that I like and I'm caught up with a lot of people and events, I have no reason to time travel anymore but I don't really want to feel like I'm wrong for doing it. If I didn't wanna get my feelings hurt then I probably shouldn't be on the internet but I enjoy coming here and buying and trading and chatting about the game with y'all. For the most part a lot of people are okay with it or don't care which is great but on rare occasions some people are kinda mean on both sides of this debate and it hurts to see it. I wish everyone could just chill out. I'm tired of it and just want people to get along better.
Tldr; I think it's perfectly fine depending on why you're doing it, please don't argue (the few of you that are), and stay sane y'all. Love this community.
I am okay with time traveling and have even done it myself. I liked the way that in New Leaf it really felt okay to do because of the in game clock and also the villagers acknowledging that you have been time traveling. It felt like a somewhat natural part of the game. While it wasn't intended, it didn't exactly feel taboo to me. Now in New Horizons it just makes me feel super dirty because I have to change my whole system clock. I have done some minor time traveling in this game as well. I reset my island about 5 days after release and didn't want to feel left behind by everyone else and my family who also play the game, but I was miserable on my first island, so I time traveled a few days while completing the basic beginning tasks to catch up again. Then within the past few weeks I did time travel a little bit to move some villagers in and out of my town but just for myself. I don't sell or trade villagers. In all honesty I do feel guilty about it, but I don't want to. While I may not be a doctor or a nurse for sick people around the world, I am still an essential employee and I am so tired and stressed from work and online classes. I'm constantly afraid to get sick but at the same time I don't feel like I can quit my job and screw over my coworkers or stop helping the people that need help from us. I come home some days and I want to cry and don't feel like ever leaving my house again, but instead I get on animal crossing and play with all of the cute villagers that I love. I don't want to come home after a long and busy shift and have to play the game with a bunch of animals that I hate or find out that I missed the fishing tourney and will have to wait months to participate because right now this is one of the few things that keeps me sane and happy while the world is suffering. I have since stopped time traveling of course and I don't use it for any other purposes now because I have a town of villagers that I like and I'm caught up with a lot of people and events, I have no reason to time travel anymore but I don't really want to feel like I'm wrong for doing it. If I didn't wanna get my feelings hurt then I probably shouldn't be on the internet but I enjoy coming here and buying and trading and chatting about the game with y'all. For the most part a lot of people are okay with it or don't care which is great but on rare occasions some people are kinda mean on both sides of this debate and it hurts to see it. I wish everyone could just chill out. I'm tired of it and just want people to get along better.
Tldr; I think it's perfectly fine depending on why you're doing it, please don't argue (the few of you that are), and stay sane y'all. Love this community.
Rosie Moon
~Living in my own world~
Personally, I do think it’s a bit cheaty, but overall it’s harmless and nowhere near as bad as hacking or exploiting glitches for gain. I’m not gonna judge anyone for it. I’m a non-TTer, but I will admit to TTing once to get Raymond via the campsite trick. Did I cheat? I feel like I did, especially at the time. Harmful? Not at all. Do I regret it? Not in the slightest.
Time Travel is a form of exploiting the game to have general advantages in many areas. I consider it 'cheating,' but that's not a bad thing at all. It's a tool that can improve the enjoyment of the game if used for justifiable means... And easily spoil the experience if abused.
In my last New Leaf town, I did TT, but for specific means. I used it to boot out a villager that stuck around for 3 months without ever asking to leave, and to grow back grass deterioration after every month or so. In this way, I 'cheated' the game's desire to keep the villager in my town, and 'cheated' the game's horrifying grass wear that drove me crazy. Yet I thought it was justified, as I felt the game was abusing me with such nonsence, and wanted to keep the game fun to play. I always went back to normal time once these issues were dealt with.
As much as time travelling is cheating, it is an exploit - and in such, we must also compare it to other exploits that are not cheating and question whether we should take advantage of them. I find some ways of getting bells truly exploitive, yet are fully allowed - the Various Mystery islands tricks and the Stalk Market. The Hybrid Island could also be an 'exploit' in the game, compared to the effort of breeding them yourself. Amiibo adoptions could also be an exploit, as you're forcing the exact villager into your town instead of relying on the game's RNG.
We should question more about how we should work with the exploits when we play the game. I try not to buy so many turnips, nor abusively farm mystery islands for bells and hybrids. I also don't adopt villagers from others.
...Time Travel? Impressively, I haven't found anything in New Horizons that actually warrants for me so far. I guess people might agonize about the slow moving process of moving villagers and buildings. Though to me, it's light speed compared to works projects in New Leaf.
In my last New Leaf town, I did TT, but for specific means. I used it to boot out a villager that stuck around for 3 months without ever asking to leave, and to grow back grass deterioration after every month or so. In this way, I 'cheated' the game's desire to keep the villager in my town, and 'cheated' the game's horrifying grass wear that drove me crazy. Yet I thought it was justified, as I felt the game was abusing me with such nonsence, and wanted to keep the game fun to play. I always went back to normal time once these issues were dealt with.
As much as time travelling is cheating, it is an exploit - and in such, we must also compare it to other exploits that are not cheating and question whether we should take advantage of them. I find some ways of getting bells truly exploitive, yet are fully allowed - the Various Mystery islands tricks and the Stalk Market. The Hybrid Island could also be an 'exploit' in the game, compared to the effort of breeding them yourself. Amiibo adoptions could also be an exploit, as you're forcing the exact villager into your town instead of relying on the game's RNG.
We should question more about how we should work with the exploits when we play the game. I try not to buy so many turnips, nor abusively farm mystery islands for bells and hybrids. I also don't adopt villagers from others.
...Time Travel? Impressively, I haven't found anything in New Horizons that actually warrants for me so far. I guess people might agonize about the slow moving process of moving villagers and buildings. Though to me, it's light speed compared to works projects in New Leaf.
Depends on how you use it. I work 8-10 hours a day. When I wake up, shops aren't open yet. When I get off work, I get too tired to play so I nap for a few hours. When I open the game again, I have to rush buy before the shops close up. I barely get to see what the day looks like because I only have free time at night. I never TT'ed in ACNL, but that was because I had the time to play whenever I want lol
Personally, I TT because if I ever played the game day by day, I would only ever be able to play from the hours of 11 pm - 3 am (if I wanted to stay up that late) due to my work schedule. In New Leaf, I didn't know what TT was for Years until I discovered cycling, and even then I only did it to cycle and then went back to day by day. But then again, when NL came out I was in high school and I didn't really have responsibilities.I used to bring my 3ds to school and play it all the time. Not to say all people who play day by day don't have responsibilities, but I work weird hours and I would like to actually experience parts of the game I wouldn't get to otherwise.... like going to the store LOL. People just need to stop deciding for the rest of us what the "right way" is to play the game.
"According to an interview with Washington Post, the developer doesn’t consider time traveling to be cheating. However, they do state that, “for the players to play for a very long time, and also for players to share the experience with their friends or family, we do think that playing without traveling would probably be the ideal way.” "
Pulled from this article
It still depends on the way you're TTing. If you're TTing and keeping to yourself then that's perfectly fine. However, you cannot deny that people have used it to "cheat" stuff while also taking advantage of other players as pointed out by others here. I for one don't ignore and overlook the idea of using TTing for greedy gains and I do call it cheating so yeah.
Idk man, It kinda sounds like youre trying to create rules on what is and isnt okay by your standards when that article clearly states TT is not cheating.
Did you not hear a word I said? I said people are you using game mechanics to access things quicker and exploit other people. That is cheating. People who don't cheat have no way of keeping up with this current economy because greedy TTers are ruining it. The only reason the developer cannot say anything about TTing is simply because it's close to impossible to stop and in their mind, it's completely fine as long as they don't exploit it. I think your post made it abundantly clear that the devs wanted people to play the game without TTing so we're just gonna ignore that...
This ain't smogon bs
Lol first of all, stop being condescending.
You made a positive claim that the developers were against TT and I was a able to prove that as incorrect.
What you are doing is cherry picking and trying to create a rule book on what is and isnt ok.
If something was not ok, then it would be taken out of the game. The developers are not stupid and they are aware of what is going on.
And while yes, the devs, and most people including myself, would agree that the game would create a better experience if played without TT, thats just not how the world works and we have to suck it up and deal with it. And if its affecting you this much then just stop playing or go make a better game that ACNH.
You made a positive claim that the developers were against TT and I was a able to prove that as incorrect.
What you are doing is cherry picking and trying to create a rule book on what is and isnt ok.
If something was not ok, then it would be taken out of the game. The developers are not stupid and they are aware of what is going on.
And while yes, the devs, and most people including myself, would agree that the game would create a better experience if played without TT, thats just not how the world works and we have to suck it up and deal with it. And if its affecting you this much then just stop playing or go make a better game that ACNH.
i like your style.
people are so mad about the way other people do things I think this is a "lets agree to disagree" situation aahaha
