A Nook Miles Ticket Rant

[Mairen]

What is with the Nook Mile Tickets fad? (no offence to anyone personally, I love you all! >.<). But I'm not liking this new thing of everyone switching to nook mile tickets as a form of currency. Where are people getting 50? 100? 500?!

Are people still finding a way to duplicate items, or are we still seeing the after effects of when that was a thing? Are people buying them? I know that's possible...but I refuse to purchase them off of ebay or wherever, that feels like a 3rd party form of micro transactioning (not sure if I phrased that correctly). And shame on you guys if you are, that's creating a huge divide between the people who have no real life money to spare on this stuff. The Animal Crossing community used to solely be rewarded based on the hard work we put into our games, and the bells we earned with that work, not who's the richest member here.

80% of the threads in the market and villager auctions here I enter and then exit immediately because the seller is ONLY looking for those as a form of payment (and not just a couple, usually 20+! just how?). From catching bugs and fishing and going about my daily tasks each day, I'm typically getting 5000 ish points a day which equates to 2-3 tickets.

Feel free to add your thoughts! Educate me if I'm missing out on something here. Debate this (in a mature and non-critical way). Thank you for taking your time to read this. I really just had to get this off my chest, it's kind of gotten me down lately. I feel like I can't participate in a huge part of the community these days.

 

[Vonny]

Paying 400 NMT for a mod to delete this thread

 

[meo]

There were glitches early on that could be manipulated to dupe.

So naturally select people were still able to dupe to acquire multiples of items/bells. Bells were easily sold for tickets and etc.
A lot of people buy huge quantities of tickets to either grind islands to search for a villager or as you stated to bid with for high demand villagers.

It affects normal items too which is annoying but not surprising. You have a handful of people that have excess tickets piled up and a DIY recipe all the sudden goes for 30 tickets randomly once...and then everyone tries to think they can get that DIY ticket for the same. Pretty annoying especially when the DIYS (not talking about sakura) will all be redundant and overflowing in people's inventory in a month or so.
Ultimately it's just kind of how it is. New Leaf wasn't much different, it just was high amounts of bells or TBT. Eventually tickets will ride out their use for most people. You can still find reasonable traders, it just takes time and patience.

 

[salem_]

I can talk as one who takes them as payment.
I am just adapting to the economy. Since people prefers NMT, I sell for NMT,
so I can do easiest trades next.
No duplicating or stuff, but I buy them for bells or trade items for them,
that's how I stack them at least.

 

[kylie32123]

It's frustrating when I go into the neighbor network thread, see a villager that I want and I have a DECENT offer in mind, and see that people are offering 400+ NMTs for it. Um, I'll just buy the amiibo card online then, I guess.

 

[thelonewanderer]

What is with the Nook Mile Tickets fad? (no offence to anyone personally, I love you all! >.<). But I'm not liking this new thing of everyone switching to nook mile tickets as a form of currency. Where are people getting 50? 100? 500?!

Are people still finding a way to duplicate items, or are we still seeing the after effects of when that was a thing? Are people buying them? I know that's possible...but I refuse to purchase them off of ebay or wherever, that feels like a 3rd party form of micro transactioning (not sure if I phrased that correctly). And shame on you guys if you are, that's creating a huge divide between the people who have no real life money to spare on this stuff. The Animal Crossing community used to solely be rewarded based on the hard work we put into our games, and the bells we earned with that work, not who's the richest member here.

80% of the threads in the market and villager auctions here I enter and then exit immediately because the seller is ONLY looking for those as a form of payment (and not just a couple, usually 20+! just how?). From catching bugs and fishing and going about my daily tasks each day, I'm typically getting 5000 ish points a day which equates to 2-3 tickets.

Feel free to add your thoughts! Educate me if I'm missing out on something here. Debate this (in a mature and non-critical way). Thank you for taking your time to read this. I really just had to get this off my chest, it's kind of gotten me down lately. I feel like I can't participate in a huge part of the community these days.

Considering it take 45 minutes duping to make 111 millions bells, I would say yeah. The effect of duping despite it being patch up will have a effect much longer than most people believe. It would take months to get rid of that taint. It one thing to dupe on your own but the moment you take it online, you completely destroy the economy for everyone, and people who buy your dupe item are not without fault either.

 

[Jas]

it's insane, i've seen people offering wild amounts for audie and raymond especially. i make enough for maybe 3-4 NMT a day, but looking at the forums - at some point it feels less like a fun, relaxing game and more like people are running it like a workplace LMAO

 

[CodyMKW]

I would be ok giving maybe around like 1 to 20 NMTs for stuff since that's more reasonable

 

[meggtheegg]

I think the duping at the beginning of the game really set the tone for the economy as well. You couldnt dupe NMT but also it would be so difficult to organically realistically get 1mill bells at the beginning week of the game just to buy 4 NMT, with money left over for progression house wise and stuff. But duping made that price plausible for a lot of people. It is frustrating i agree. But sometimes you can find fair trades and otherwise we just have to sit back and wait.
i get a lot of anxiety tho from the trading threads sometimes i get where youre coming from. Itll flatten out i have hope

 

[Pyoopi]

I haven't started to trade yet for acnh because I feel that I don't have a "cool" item accumulation yet to trade off.

But yeah, saw that NMT is the golden ticket. Dumb question, does NMT stack at all because carrying individual tickets would be bonkers.

I don't understand pricing either.

 

[DinoTown]

I get a decent amount of NM, but I usually spend a lot of time following the Nook Miles+ so buying a lot of NMT isn't huge for me. I had 50k NM at the start of today, I have played since game launch and have also been buying recipes and tickets and furniture and upgrades as I go, so the total amount I've earned is much higher than that.

400+ NMT for a villager is absolutely ridiculous. In fact I think the high price for Nook Mile tickets in general is ridiculous given how easy I find it to make them in the first place. I made 4 million bells today selling NMT because I decided I had a lot of NM.

 

[thelonewanderer]

it's insane, i've seen people offering wild amounts for audie and raymond especially. i make enough for maybe 3-4 NMT a day, but looking at the forums - at some point it feels less like a fun, relaxing game and more like people are running it like a workplace LMAO

I seen people selling Diana for 20+ and I also seen today some guy giving away Diana for free. There still good people out there. I gave tons and tons of villagers for free away in NL 2nd town, Marshal for example, I think that was my most popular giveaway.

 

[brockbrock]

I haven't started to trade yet for acnh because I feel that I don't have a "cool" item accumulation yet to trade off.

But yeah, saw that NMT is the golden ticket. Dumb question, does NMT stack at all because carrying individual tickets would be bonkers.

I don't understand pricing either.

They stack in 10s.

 

[buny]

honestly i agree im weirded out

 

[Jas]

I seen people selling Diana for 20+ and I also seen today some guy giving away Diana for free. There still good people out there. I gave tons and tons of villagers for free away in NL 2nd town, Marshal for example, I think that was my most popular giveaway.

yeah those are really awesome! honestly, it's only the auctions for villagers that start out at regular prices like 1-20 NMT and then suddenly people start swooping in with hundreds of tickets and millions of bells

i don't trade or buy villagers too often so i can't really say anything about people who ask for or offer that much (if people are okay to pay that much, it's up to them lol), but i do feel bad for people who didn't dupe but still want to take part in getting villagers. hopefully the inflated prices will die down with time, i feel like it's always a little bit like this whenever a new game comes out

 

[idklol58258]

i know, its bs. there are people in this discord i'm in selling raymond for 1.2k tickets. and they;re getting it consistently. like, holy crap, no single thing should be worth THAT much

 

[blinkcrossing]

Honestly I'm fine with it as payment. I'm able to farm 5000 nook miles in 1.5 hours, so I'm able to sell about 10-15 tickets on average daily. I like how I can also buy hybrids using them. They helped me pay off my house loans for sure!

 

[cornimer]

Yeah add me to the confused train. I'm not accusing anyone who has a lot of NMT of duping or doing anything unfair, but I'm just bewildered as to how it's possible to get that much. Since March 20th I would estimate I've made....*does quick math* maybe 60k-65k miles. That is about 32 tickets....how on earth are people getting upwards of 1000 tickets?? What are your secrets??

 

[tybalt_cake]

I get a decent amount of NM, but I usually spend a lot of time following the Nook Miles+ so buying a lot of NMT isn't huge for me. I had 50k NM at the start of today, I have played since game launch and have also been buying recipes and tickets and furniture and upgrades as I go, so the total amount I've earned is much higher than that.

400+ NMT for a villager is absolutely ridiculous. In fact I think the high price for Nook Mile tickets in general is ridiculous given how easy I find it to make them in the first place. I made 4 million bells today selling NMT because I decided I had a lot of NM.

How is it even possible people is offering 400+ NMT for a villager? You would have to collect 800k Nook Miles for them , and even if you TT it's impossible

 

[Mairen]

Thank you so much for the replies so far you guys! I've found it interesting reading the input from both people who are against the miles tickets and people who use them regularly. Already you guys have softened my stance on them! I suppose I can see how a 3rd form of currency here could be a fun thing (in game bells, forum currency and nook miles tickets.)

I guess I'd like to see more merchants here accepting multiple forms of currency. Although I could understand there being a bit of a mess trying to work out what offer to accept if someone's offering you 20 million bells and another person is offering 200 nook miles tickets. (I have no idea if that is an even exchange, was simply used as an example.)

And I'd be fine with using miles tickets as a currency, but not when people are asking for huge amounts. I feel like it would take the average person like myself nearly a week just to get 25! So when people come forward with a sale like :20 nmt per hybrid flower. I just slowly back away from that sale and think to myself that I'll grow them on my own time afterall =p

I totally understand how people get upset wanting to bid on their dream villagers and being completely derailed. They come in with a bid of like 20 tickets that they worked really hard to get and it took them quite awhile to save up that amount, and then someone jumps in with 100 and they think "oh okay. game over for me."

So I don't hate the tickets, but I feel like there's still this huge divide in the community where some people have hundreds of nook mile tickets and the rest of us don't even have a chance to participate in the markets.