I’m surprised to find out about this. I don’t trade anything, because I like working for things on my own. Personally, I just like the challenge. I also don’t trade villagers since I don’t want them to come with any history or to talk about other islands or people I don’t really know. Given this, I’m one of those who uses A LOT of Nook Miles Tickets to get villagers on tours. I’m shocked to find out about this because I’m always at about 90-100K nook miles everyday I log off my game and I’ve redeemed almost everything I wanted. Nook miles pile up so easily when you time your dailies right. Why would people pay so much for them?
i think it's mostly for ease - people who want to go through islands quickly and not have to go through the effort of the nook miles tasks. i've also seen people buy tickets for 200k each and then later sell them for a profit LOL
If you dupe millions worth of bells then turn around and buy tickets from anyone and everyone...10 tickets from person A...5 tickets from person B...3 tickets from person C...then multiply that endlessly.
Same thing for running a store, if you have enough luck getting certain items to flip,...lets say you get a kotatsu and you get 50 of them between TTing (we'll leave out duping) and you charge 1 nmt per kotatsu. Easily 50 people that will come along over the span of a week and trade 1 nmt for the item they are desperate for.
Then lets say you're a person that has 100 tickets on hand and you see an item you're impatient to get...3 people posted ahead of you someone for 2 nmt, one person for 4 nmt...so you throw 20 nmt so you for sure get your item.
Now every person that has that item wants 20 nmt because they saw that person desperate to get it. So everyone starts trading to compile nmt the same way regardless.
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I think I've only ever encountered one island that I couldn't convert to a tarantula island. Most you can. The one I couldnt was the bell rock island.
I suppose that makes sense. What really gets me is how people are getting so many NMTs from not trading them first. They must really play for hours on end
I suppose that makes sense. What really gets me is how people are getting so many NMTs from not trading them first. They must really play for hours on end
I mean hypothetically TTing is an advantage for NMT. If you sit there and do nothing but TT and get your 300 NMT daily bonus then, yea, it'd add up fast.
And I'm sure there are people that did do so before trading took off. Especially with NH not really having any repercussions to deter grinding TTing solely for nook miles (flowers don't die, villagers won't move till they speak to you, plots stay in the same place).
I TT and I definitely can see how easily it accumulates just TTing a day forward and back to fix a villagers plot fast. So I won't deny that is a factor especially if someone just sits and does it nonestop for a few hours.
I definitely think to get the Miles bonus there should have been some setting that if you didn't have the time sync'd to the internet that you don't get the bonus and it starts at 50 for when you turn it off/back on.
Keeping up with the economy has been difficult lately. I was able to get tickets easily because I had a lot of money from selling materials and fish bait and I also grind miles pretty frequently, but recently the forums are sucking me dry. I spent 100+ NMTs on two dreamies and now I'm the brokest I've been since launch. I'm thinking of hunting and selling fish bait for others again to make ends meet.
Personally I've been getting my NMT's by time travelling day by day and doing the x2 and x5 Nook Miles+ missions. Doing that I was able to get 30 tickets in the span of two days. I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if that's how other people are getting their tickets outside of buying or trading for them.
I can see why tickets are popular. People like going to islands or rolling for villagers, and miles are harder to get than bells. Even without the exploit, it requires you doing specific tasks to gain miles rather than being able to just go to tarantula island.
That being said, the prices right now are ridiculous! I think 1 NMT for a bundle of items is fair, but 400+ for a single villager? Wow...
Tbh, whenever I get super bored, I actually farm for 5 Tickets a day. Sometimes even 10. But I only play for some hours and didn’t do much TT lately.
Looks like I will never obtain Marshal, Raymond and Audie. Such a shame.*sarcasm off*
I think people should not stress themselves. I feel really bad for those people which really want those villagers, but have to give such a huge amount of money or Tickets, like they are made of solid gold. I kinda understand the Villagers with no Amiibos, because they are „rare“. But still.
Good thing I’m not super picky about most villagers, so it doesn’t really effect me too much. I wish all of you that you will get your Dreamies eventually.
But it’s not much different for certian Amiibo Cards. Everything has its price, sadly.
I've been sitting here typing like 5 different things to say about this and I've come to the conclusion of: I don't understand how the economy works and this situation is a headache x'D
My only concern, as you and others pointed out, is the serious skew between daily players, TTers, and people that pay real money for tickets. Even TTers can only get so much tickets, so the market just feels completely lopsided to those who have the money. I don't particularly have any strong feelings towards those that spend money for tickets, I just wish the markets of playstyles didn't share the same exact place since it is negatively effecting the accessibility to those who simply can't catch up to the market.
I get why others find value in them even if I don't, and I wish them the best in achieving the villagers they want! Hopefully as more people achieve the villagers they want and the move-in glitches get patched then the market will calm down, there will be much less demand then.
I absolutely understand your frustration. It’s unbelievable for these people to have earned that many NMT. Like, the game’s only been out for two weeks, what the hell?!
Perhaps I’m talking from an opinionated standpoint, but I still haven’t warmed up to the NMs concept in general. It feels very much like a mobile game where you grind for this premium currency only to gamble it away to get your dreamie. I don’t want to play a gacha game in Animal Crossing. I’m honestly shocked Nintendo hasn’t monetized this concept (I’m glad they haven’t and I hope they never do.) That could be why I feel the way I do.
It is particularly frustrating to place a bid in an auction with a high amount of bells, only for someone to sweep it with 500 or more NMT. It’s thrown a wrench in the market for sure. I’m thinking you either have to adapt to it or just take matters into your own hands, use the tickets and hope for the best.
I've seen really ridiculous cases of NMT. Things like "You can visit my Able Sisters for 1 NMT!" Why? Just... why?
This is part of the reason I'm in no rush to buy an online subscription so I can trade. I'd love to trade for the fruits, flowers, Nook Miles furniture alternate colors, and other things that I can't get on my own... but I'd rather wait and hope the online economy gets better. Or, at least, TBT returns and people accept that again.
Same with me. I love helping people but I'm really sick and tire of all the selfishness going on. I gave away Marshal back in New Leaf for free before I reset just cause I wanted to do something nice and didn't care about how much bells he was worth. And when I got him again, I also gave him away for the 2nd and later 3rd time with my 2nd New Leaf town. But I guess people like me are rare and most just only care about their bottom wallet.
I saw someone give away Diana today to another member and she/he was so happy. What happen to being nice to folks in this day and age?
I’m surprised to find out about this. I don’t trade anything, because I like working for things on my own. Personally, I just like the challenge. I also don’t trade villagers since I don’t want them to come with any history or to talk about other islands or people I don’t really know. Given this, I’m one of those who uses A LOT of Nook Miles Tickets to get villagers on tours. I’m shocked to find out about this because I’m always at about 90-100K nook miles everyday I log off my game and I’ve redeemed almost everything I wanted. Nook miles pile up so easily when you time your dailies right. Why would people pay so much for them?
After watching that one person get Raymond for 1500+ tickets, I honestly can't do this stupid economy anymore.
Also, I'm not saying that all new people on this forum cheat or bought their tickets on eBay, but I've noticed a huge surge of people that joined over the weekend with no avatars and they're packed with hundreds of tickets.
This economy is broken and I'm actually about to give up on buying Raymond.
Personally, I would rather spend my 3-4 daily Nook Mile Tickets to visit Islands looking for recipes/fossils/villagers rather than spend them on transactions, and maybe finding a Tarantula Island or Hybrid Island in the process.
I am genuinely uninterested in receiving NMTs as payment because too many Island visits in quick succession sound like they would get boring, and I would rather receive an actual item that I am looking for in a trade.
The high NMT prices also made me give up even trying to find my Dreamies. At least I already have 3 of them.
I sold tickets everyday to pay my house loans. Because of this I have stuck in my mind that a ticket is worth around 250k bells. And some hours of grinding to get a stack to sell. And I can no longer go on threads in nook cranny lol because people are selling normal items for NMT! Like seriously, a sakura pouchette DIY is not worth 20 NMT, that's 5 mil bells . Or some flowers being given in NMT. I'm not paying 250k+ bells for 1 flower. lol
Since I don't take part in buying villagers, I have no use for getting lots of stacks of NMT, since I aslo don't island hop. Lol So I'll just keep looking for IGB offers. Tho I feel a lot of people are greedy for what they have, especially if they charge NMT for items they can make using DIY cards.
Yeah, I get the frustration! I don't really have a full island of dreamies planned or anything, I like just letting my island evolve naturally, so I don't get super into the villager trading thing. I've looked into a little, and it seems pretty much every even minorly popular villager is going for at least 20+ DMT, which would be... at least 4 days of acquiring at a normal pace. Grinding for nook tickets isn't hard, but I'd still rather just play normally instead of grinding... It's annoying trying to bid on or buy anything when inevitably someone else will hop in with an offer of dozens of tickets. It's started to pick up for normal item sales too, which is annoying.
I also personally don't see a ton of use for the NMT, given my island is full and I don't really have the patience to island hop and hope I get a cool villagers. The prices are dropping a little, but for a while it was about 300k per ticket, which is.... basically the same as the profit you can get from a tarantula island, which are decently rare spawns. Sure, you can convert any island to a tarantula island, but spending ~20 minutes per island converting it to one is grindy too. The most use I'd get out of them is trading for other stuff or converting to bells, but again it's just an extra cog in the process.
After watching that one person get Raymond for 1500+ tickets, I honestly can't do this stupid economy anymore.
Also, I'm not saying that all new people on this forum cheat or bought their tickets on eBay, but I've noticed a huge surge of people that joined over the weekend with no avatars and they're packed with hundreds of tickets.
This economy is broken and I'm actually about to give up on buying Raymond.
I love using tickets as a currency, honestly. They don't take long to get, they're worth a lot so if you offer a few you're more likely to get what you want, etc. I haven't been making a lot of bells so I can still get items from people that would cost a lot otherwise.
Most people want them so they can visit islands, as the new 8 villagers cannot be obtained via amiibo. Raymond, Audie, and Judy are the most sought after villagers at the moment and the only way to get them is from RNG, a Nook Mile island, or shelling out tons of tickets to another person. I don't understand why so many people are still buying/selling/trading villagers right now though.. I would be terrified to offer that many tickets with all of the villager moving-in and moving-out bugs happening.
I do think this 600+ tickets for one villager is ridiculous, but if people have that many tickets to offer (most likely bought from eBay) then there isn't really much we can do about it unless the forum forbids huge offers like that to try and salvage the economy.
Hopefully they will release Amiibo cards for the new 8 in the near future so people will stop losing their minds.
I'm not a fan of it either honestly, especially when it comes to shops and things (who knew it would be so hard to get a signature now!) but at the same time I understand it, they want in return something that they can actually use. I think the duplicating glitch has really messed things up
