i haven’t time travelled yet but i have no issue with those who do - i’m just trying to take this game one day at a time since i sped through new leaf and basically only played it to trade during the end. i know there’ll be future updates that’ll hopefully make becoming bored harder but i’m trying to play ‘naturally’ this time around, anyway aha
Opinions on TT in this game?
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I'll time travel in small increments when I'm getting impatient. The big months-long skips though? No way, they make me too nervous.
Faiiry, can I ask where you found the pixel art of Audie in your signature? I haven't found any pixel versions of her yet. It looks so cute!
Faiiry, can I ask where you found the pixel art of Audie in your signature? I haven't found any pixel versions of her yet. It looks so cute!
BlueFlameAngel
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I TT whenever I'm waiting for something to upgrade because I have no patience and I'm not guilty about that at all, lmao. I don't care if people don't TT or do TT -- it's not my business how other people like to play the game. I consider it a bit dumb to call TTing cheating when animal crossing isn't really a game you can 'win' at. Some people get so worked up by the fact that people TT and those people need to chill because this is literally just a cute game about living with animals and designing your island. It's not that serious. I was really surprised by the hostility I saw on reddit between non-TTers and TTers.
I think everyone should just play the game in the way their can enjoy it the best, especially if you spend so much money for it. I do time traveling and honestly don't care if people calling it "cheating" or whatever, after all it only effects your own island and no those of others, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else it's all good in my opinion. I do enjoy the game more that way. And no, I don't get bored of it quicker or something, I still have plenty to do and have lots of fun playing it. Besides, I'm a impatient person, I prefer ways to unlock certain things faster if possible to be honest...
Nothing new for me when it comes to Reddit. But then again, why telling people that one tt’s and being surprised that people getting angry. Most of them want to experience the game as it goes and don’t want spoilers. If one doesn’t use spoiler tags, then I can understand the rage. However, as I mentioned here in a thread earlier, I used tt in NL and really don’t mind if people do this on their own, but please don’t spoiler what you saw or experienced. I, for once, will play this game without trying or reset, because this game allows one to fix many mistakes very easily.
CowKing
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I've been noticing a lot of hate towards time travelers lately. Even in this community, I'll see people excluding time travelers from stuff just because they're time travelers. It's REALLY bad on Twitter, some people are mad that the duplication exploit was patched instead of time traveling. Like... seriously?? Why are people getting so worked up about it all! You can time travel and still enjoy the game! I played New Leaf for 6 bloody years and I time traveled all the time! (Only to move the day on when I've done everything I could for the day)
I don't know if I'll time travel in New Horizons or not, maybe later down the line but not now, the game gives me enough stuff to do so I'm content with not moving on to the next day.
But anyways, stop hating time travelers. It doesn't affect you or your town at all. Just. Chill.
I don't know if I'll time travel in New Horizons or not, maybe later down the line but not now, the game gives me enough stuff to do so I'm content with not moving on to the next day.
But anyways, stop hating time travelers. It doesn't affect you or your town at all. Just. Chill.
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I think some hostility to TTing might be coming from how it seems that it can glitch up villager trading. TTing is the #1 way that pretty much everyone pushed out villagers for sell/trade in NL, at least until amiibo I guess, so it's no surprise people use it. It's looking like it can really mess up another person's game, so people are afraid of and angry at TTers I suppose.
For me right now, I've only TT'd my 2nd town to 'catch up' to current date. I don't go into the future. I personally enjoy the slow progress. It's less overwhelming and making me feel like I should be doing a ton of stuff for my town. I want the game to be a short little escape a few times throughout the day, not something I have to play for hours and hours at a time. The tutorial phase of getting your island off the ground was already a bit too much of a timesuck for me. I'm really looking forward to a slower pace from now on (town hall just built).
For me right now, I've only TT'd my 2nd town to 'catch up' to current date. I don't go into the future. I personally enjoy the slow progress. It's less overwhelming and making me feel like I should be doing a ton of stuff for my town. I want the game to be a short little escape a few times throughout the day, not something I have to play for hours and hours at a time. The tutorial phase of getting your island off the ground was already a bit too much of a timesuck for me. I'm really looking forward to a slower pace from now on (town hall just built).
I don't care if people TT, I wasn't going to TT in this game, but I have no patience to wait for the next day for upgrades. I did that for the museum and most of the day waiting on the new resident services but I needed the ABD and nook miles redemption because things were starting to get overwhelming waiting. I can't put this game down and been playing in all my free time, which lately has been a LOT. Grinding in this game takes a lot of resources and time, I get more burn out than I did in NL going to Tortimers Island. Once I have shaken every tree, hit every rock, gathered wood from every tree etc...I have NOTHING to do. I have been running around fishing and catching all this low rate bugs and fish so building up bells has been excruciatingly slow. I decided to TT and really don't care if it bothers people. As many have said this is a single player game, there is no "winning" and I will play how it suits me. I don't judge how other people play their game and I think it is telling when a person gets up in arms over how someone else plays a GAME.
I'm playing the game as intended. (Through real time and in sync with the date). Everyone time traveling is spoiling themselves, and blowing through all the content too fast, which is why most are complaining about "cut" content. I haven't even got the first Nook's Cranny upgrade yet, so it's not a problem to me that there is no expansion after that just yet. Nintendo will add that in time when the upgrade is ready for those of us who are not time traveling.
By not time traveling, I have a lot of things to look forward to the next day, and even for the future. Today I have unlocked the Town Hall, and this has been more special to me than time travelers because it's truly been something I had to earn and wait for. Yesterday, RS tent was closed, but I put up with it. Today, my patience pays off as I now have the hourly music and some other things I won't spoil.
While waiting, I have more time to:
* complete my museum and critterpedia (Catch all fish/bugs in March)
* earn exessive amounts of Nook Miles and bells, which is probably why I am a minority in thinking 2000 miles for a Ticket is a not expensive
* get to know my town, thus helping me understand what needs fixing ASAP when I unlock terraforming.
By not time traveling, I have a lot of things to look forward to the next day, and even for the future. Today I have unlocked the Town Hall, and this has been more special to me than time travelers because it's truly been something I had to earn and wait for. Yesterday, RS tent was closed, but I put up with it. Today, my patience pays off as I now have the hourly music and some other things I won't spoil.
While waiting, I have more time to:
* complete my museum and critterpedia (Catch all fish/bugs in March)
* earn exessive amounts of Nook Miles and bells, which is probably why I am a minority in thinking 2000 miles for a Ticket is a not expensive
* get to know my town, thus helping me understand what needs fixing ASAP when I unlock terraforming.
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Agree with all of the above. My RS rent is closed today. I am looking forward to tomorrow morning when I wake up to the building and whatever else there is that awaits! In the meantime, I bought 2 extra nook miles tickets yesterday so that I can use them today and I will spend my time fishing/catching bugs, talking to villagers, etc. When TT'ing in New Leaf I felt like everything felt rushed and I didn't get to enjoy the little things about the game.
Happy playing!
time travelling doesn't bother me, i'm not doing it in new horizons but i've TT'd in past games. but i am glad content is being kept locked behind updates. even if the majority of time travellers are decent about not posting spoilers, it still gets harder to avoid them the longer the games been out
Halloqueen
Senior Member
I've time traveled in every Animal Crossing game I've played since the GameCube game, and New Horizons is no exception. Not particularly thrilled with the soft discouragement of it (having to change the system clock, as opposed to having the option to change the date and time in-game like you could in all the past games) or the fact that event days are going to be released via patches instead of just being present in the game, but I'll make do, and I'm relieved that time travel remains possible. I set my Switch clock back to the start of last month so I could settle in and give myself some breathing room to work with.
I always find the purity arguments about time travel being "cheating" or "not as intended" ridiculous and tiresome. If it's such an awful, dreadful "exploit", they had 19 years to remove the ability to do so, or greatly punish its use, and yet it returned in multiple games and is still here. Villagers would even mention it in the rumor dialogue in New Leaf sometimes, a nod to the people who do it.
If, after all this time, the developers eventually decide it's not cool with them anymore, I would see it as an arbitrary, pointless, nonsensical decision made simply because they could, something I could not abide. It's like the initial exclusion of hundreds of Pokémon from Pokémon Sword and Shield. As someone who would come up with teams using Pokémon from across all the various regions (released to that point, depending on the individual game) for playthroughs of past games and breeding them all to be competitively viable with egg moves, abilities, and nicknames, I found the decision to be disastrous. I suddenly found myself in a box, in a catered experience, one which I found to be lacking and which could never compete with the experiences I could create for myself. I would find myself in much the same situation if time travel was fully removed.
I fundamentally disagree with the notion that it's somehow bad. It's merely an alternative style of play. Frankly? I find playing day-to-day less fun and more like a chore to which I must slavishly attend, lest a villager move out or the town fall into disrepair. I've always enjoyed being able to play multiple in-game days per each individual real day, and I find it equally enjoyable to be able to step away for a day, or days, or weeks, or months, if I have more pressing matters to attend to or am simply not feeling like playing. I personally find the day-to-day life-sim aspect, which many seem to hold up as the reason time travel is such a grave sin, to be a restrictive and boring method of play, and threatening to my long-term enjoyment and engagement with the franchise. As paradoxical as it might sound to some, the slow method of play would lead me to burnout and disinterest more frequently.
If the feature is ever fully removed from the series, I'd likely stop buying the newer games and just stick to the games where it's possible. I wouldn't begrudge the people who enjoy the slow method of play, just as I don't now and never have, but the series would no longer be what I got hooked on as a child and I would move on.
Live and let live. Tribalism over something like this is really unnecessary.
I always find the purity arguments about time travel being "cheating" or "not as intended" ridiculous and tiresome. If it's such an awful, dreadful "exploit", they had 19 years to remove the ability to do so, or greatly punish its use, and yet it returned in multiple games and is still here. Villagers would even mention it in the rumor dialogue in New Leaf sometimes, a nod to the people who do it.
If, after all this time, the developers eventually decide it's not cool with them anymore, I would see it as an arbitrary, pointless, nonsensical decision made simply because they could, something I could not abide. It's like the initial exclusion of hundreds of Pokémon from Pokémon Sword and Shield. As someone who would come up with teams using Pokémon from across all the various regions (released to that point, depending on the individual game) for playthroughs of past games and breeding them all to be competitively viable with egg moves, abilities, and nicknames, I found the decision to be disastrous. I suddenly found myself in a box, in a catered experience, one which I found to be lacking and which could never compete with the experiences I could create for myself. I would find myself in much the same situation if time travel was fully removed.
I fundamentally disagree with the notion that it's somehow bad. It's merely an alternative style of play. Frankly? I find playing day-to-day less fun and more like a chore to which I must slavishly attend, lest a villager move out or the town fall into disrepair. I've always enjoyed being able to play multiple in-game days per each individual real day, and I find it equally enjoyable to be able to step away for a day, or days, or weeks, or months, if I have more pressing matters to attend to or am simply not feeling like playing. I personally find the day-to-day life-sim aspect, which many seem to hold up as the reason time travel is such a grave sin, to be a restrictive and boring method of play, and threatening to my long-term enjoyment and engagement with the franchise. As paradoxical as it might sound to some, the slow method of play would lead me to burnout and disinterest more frequently.
If the feature is ever fully removed from the series, I'd likely stop buying the newer games and just stick to the games where it's possible. I wouldn't begrudge the people who enjoy the slow method of play, just as I don't now and never have, but the series would no longer be what I got hooked on as a child and I would move on.
Live and let live. Tribalism over something like this is really unnecessary.
Because as I've been explaining here the past 9 months, it's virtually impossible to remove time travel for an offline game. When everyone was theorizing the removal of it, I was adamant it wasn't being removed.
There is a reason Nintendo has removed in-game clock options aside from wanting to discourage it. The option only existed in the past because several rare occasional circumstances could cause the game to lose time sync. This was solved with Internet Time settings.
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LaceGloves
Senior Member
After I got the Able sisters shop, I went back to current day and am taking it day by day. Considering I'm quarantined, my job was closed, and I have nothing to do, it took a lot to not TT in the beginning.
All the updates that are coming out soon are hyping me up.
All the updates that are coming out soon are hyping me up.
I've played this series for 16 years, and no one can tell me if I should TT or not lol.
Before I got NH I swore I wouldn't. When I understood the mechanics of NH I decided to do some.
Please keep in mind I am in quarantine, and cannot leave my house. So when I'm not making art, and I want to kick back with a documentary, I play AC
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There's only so much to do in a game day, and I'm big on collecting! So I TT'd to get the museum so I could go ahead and donate all I wanted.
I TT when I feel like I need to progress (get a bridge/incline/house upgrade) to extend my time or enjoyment playing.
I scoot ahead a day and then go back one, then forward another. I do all my dailies and whatever else I can. Now I've unlocked what I wanted to and can play the game as slow as I like now.
I have some basics and two bridges, and now I'm just playing like normal haha.
Before I got NH I swore I wouldn't. When I understood the mechanics of NH I decided to do some.
Please keep in mind I am in quarantine, and cannot leave my house. So when I'm not making art, and I want to kick back with a documentary, I play AC
.
There's only so much to do in a game day, and I'm big on collecting! So I TT'd to get the museum so I could go ahead and donate all I wanted.
I TT when I feel like I need to progress (get a bridge/incline/house upgrade) to extend my time or enjoyment playing.
I scoot ahead a day and then go back one, then forward another. I do all my dailies and whatever else I can. Now I've unlocked what I wanted to and can play the game as slow as I like now.
I have some basics and two bridges, and now I'm just playing like normal haha.
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