Club Tortimer encounters

[Mao]

I love hearing about club Tortimer encounters I don't know why probably because I don't have enough medals to join myself and I can't be bothered to earn them Have you met anyone nice on club Tortimer? Do you go international or only your country/region? ^_^

I also want to help people out if they are also considering buying CT so its worth reading all replies!

EDIT: I was on my phone so I didn't realised the text was huge ;_;

 

[FunkyCrunky81]

I always go internationally, but in my experience most the people I've met through club tortimer I don't understand why they bother to go there.

85% don't talk and just run around fishing/catching bugs or diving. Then there's the people I've heard about that hold you hostage demanding items and not letting you leave.

I haven't bothered to go back since.

 

[SpellCheckJoe]

I only go Club Tortimer within my country, and I do find lots of friendly people.
I tried International once and it was just not a good time at all...

 

[TheCreeperHugz]

I've never had a bad encounter with anyone, most people I've met there just run aroumd for a bit then go on a tour bu themselves or something. on my old town before I reset, I even came across someone who gave me a bunch of gold roses

 

[Patchwork]

I've never encountered the hostage taking types, yet. I've had a good amount of trips both in my country and international. Sounds really bad though, I don't get why they would. What would they gain through bullying someone when you can disconnect on them and no one wins either way. Well, I hope they'll thin out in time.

Anyway, I've met some interesting people once in a while and had some nice talks with them if they wanted to socialise, if not thats fine I'll just let them go about their business. Some players had some nice tour sessions with and we gained a lot of medals together and we were both happy working together and gaining nice items out of it.

All in all some good, some not so bad. Only once it was bad when someone disconnected and I lost a rare item which I can't recall what it was other than some rock thing which was annoying...but I'll give the guy the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Mao]

I've never had a bad encounter with anyone, most people I've met there just run aroumd for a bit then go on a tour bu themselves or something. on my old town before I reset, I even came across someone who gave me a bunch of gold roses

Hope I can meet someone like this

 

[Swiftstream]

No nice people on club tortimer

 

[windfall]

My very first few days on the island were spent grinding medals to purchase the membership xD I spent /alot/ of time on the island in June, but ever since then I barely go on it at all :c I don't think I even stepped foot on the island this month.

But back when I use to go on the island, I never had any hostage situations happen; usually, people are just trying to catch beetles or sharks. Maybe that was back before all the noobs managed to get the membership? I mostly went on the international islands in the evenings, where I met loads of Japanese players, and a few others from Europe or NA who were nothing but kind to me. I even stayed up late once to have a conversation with a japanese lady xD Once in a while I'd meet people who never talked, but that was okay, not everyone wants to type on the tiny keyboard we're given! The only annoying thing was when people would come to the island, and leave 2s later because they were island hopping for items....

But I've exchanged FCs with a couple folks on club tortimer. Currently I keep in touch with one. She's pretty much been my best ACNL friend, and we help each other out by letting each other catalogue things, and we visit each other in our towns alot! So that's one really good thing that came out of my club tortimer membership. I would have never have met her otherwise!


///wow that was kind of long lol.

 

[Mao]

My very first few days on the island were spent grinding medals to purchase the membership xD I spent /alot/ of time on the island in June, but ever since then I barely go on it at all :c I don't think I even stepped foot on the island this month.

But back when I use to go on the island, I never had any hostage situations happen; usually, people are just trying to catch beetles or sharks. Maybe that was back before all the noobs managed to get the membership? I mostly went on the international islands in the evenings, where I met loads of Japanese players, and a few others from Europe or NA who were nothing but kind to me. I even stayed up late once to have a conversation with a japanese lady xD Once in a while I'd meet people who never talked, but that was okay, not everyone wants to type on the tiny keyboard we're given! The only annoying thing was when people would come to the island, and leave 2s later because they were island hopping for items....

But I've exchanged FCs with a couple folks on club tortimer. Currently I keep in touch with one. She's pretty much been my best ACNL friend, and we help each other out by letting each other catalogue things, and we visit each other in our towns alot! So that's one really good thing that came out of my club tortimer membership. I would have never have met her otherwise!


///wow that was kind of long lol.

I like reading xD Maybe I should join after reading all of these

 

[windfall]

I like reading xD Maybe I should join after reading all of these

Well, if at least one person enjoyed my rambling, then I'm happy

I think club tortimer gets kind of bad rap since when one noob holds a person hostage, they tell the whole world that they were just scamed.

But I'm sure lots of folks have never had a hostage situation occur; most AC players are kind, genuine people - they just don't go out of their way to say "Hey everyone, I've had a great experience on club tortimer today!"

Plus there are a bunch of island exclusive items that are pretty neat.

 

[Mao]

Well, if at least one person enjoyed my rambling, then I'm happy

I think club tortimer gets kind of bad rap since when one noob holds a person hostage, they tell the whole world that they were just scamed.

But I'm sure lots of folks have never had a hostage situation occur; most AC players are kind, genuine people - they just don't go out of their way to say "Hey everyone, I've had a great experience on club tortimer today!"

Plus there are a bunch of island exclusive items that are pretty neat.

I'm one of those awkward people so I'm probably better off with international XD I've heard there's people who want to catalog but they never give the stuff back so I probably won't let anyone catalog my stuff but then hey might think I'm a big meanie x_x

- - - Post Merge - - -

But there could be those honest people- who knows

 

[locker]

I always go internationally, but in my experience most the people I've met through club tortimer I don't understand why they bother to go there.

85% don't talk and just run around fishing/catching bugs or diving. Then there's the people I've heard about that hold you hostage demanding items and not letting you leave.

I haven't bothered to go back since.

same

 

[majnin]

Whenever I go on international, it's just a flop. The person usually never talks to me and I rarely get to go on tours with people. When I got within my country, I find it a lot of fun. Recently there were 3 of us at once (for some reason this is rare for me) and we had a ball of a time doing tours together.

My worst experience is when I was with someone from Japan so we didn't understand eachother. Since she didn't seem interested in tours, I figured I'd do a little beetle catching. She was also catching bugs but mostly the ones on trees that aren't worth anything and butterflies. I filled up about half the box and then I caught a beetle she was also going for (she wasn't on the screen so I didn't see her until I'd swung) She wasn't too happy and flipped her wi fi switch. Lost all the bugs.

 

[windfall]

I'm one of those awkward people so I'm probably better off with international XD I've heard there's people who want to catalog but they never give the stuff back so I probably won't let anyone catalog my stuff but then hey might think I'm a big meanie x_x

- - - Post Merge - - -

But there could be those honest people- who knows

I'm not a social butterfly either xD But if you greet someone, and they say hi back, then that's a good start.

The reason I let my friend catalogue things was because back then, I was really into getting sets and things. And someone had given me all the JPN cataloguable DLC back when it was a bit more difficult to attain, so I was feeling generous xD But now we pretty much let each other catalogue our whole houses, and she gave me a turkey and toy hammer recently.

You never know~~

 

[Team]

I went once and someone from Spain told me to, "GET OUT ESTUPIGO." That is word for word. Lol.

 

[windfall]

I went once and someone from Spain told me to, "GET OUT ESTUPIGO." That is word for word. Lol.

Wow. @_@ Hahaha club tortimer sure has changed!

 

[Mao]

I went once and someone from Spain told me to, "GET OUT ESTUPIGO." That is word for word. Lol.

Hope you don't mind but I'm kind of laughing at this atm xD

 

[Hirisa]

I think CT membership is worth it, if only for collecting some of the nifty items you can buy there. I've had a couple of poopy experiences there, but all of my good experiences with CT have been on the international island. I met a really lovely Japanese woman there, we did some tours and then exchanged FCs. I went to her town for Obon recently and got a cute little eggplant cow. I gave her one of my pumpkin pies in return. ^^ And there have been other nice experiences, but meeting her really stands out.

tl;dr: nice shopping (sometimes), nice people (sometimes)- worth a try.

 

[Mao]

I'm not a social butterfly either xD But if you greet someone, and they say hi back, then that's a good start.

The reason I let my friend catalogue things was because back then, I was really into getting sets and things. And someone had given me all the JPN cataloguable DLC back when it was a bit more difficult to attain, so I was feeling generous xD But now we pretty much let each other catalogue our whole houses, and she gave me a turkey and toy hammer recently.

You never know~~

Hope I meet someone like this and it would be even cooler if they was on this site ^^

 

[windfall]

I think CT membership is worth it, if only for collecting some of the nifty items you can buy there. I've had a couple of poopy experiences there, but all of my good experiences with CT have been on the international island. I met a really lovely Japanese woman there, we did some tours and then exchanged FCs. I went to her town for Obon recently and got a cute little eggplant cow. I gave her one of my pumpkin pies in return. ^^ And there have been other nice experiences, but meeting her really stands out.

tl;dr: nice shopping (sometimes), nice people (sometimes)- worth a try.

The good experiences that stand out really outweigh the bad I'm actually surprised about the amount of negativity people have experienced in this thread @_@

I'm glad others have made good friends they've stayed in touch with through club tortimer!