Should TBT bells now be abolished?

[BiggKitty]

The use they were created for is very commendable, buying collectibles and paying for services provided to other members, but what do they stand for these days?

I wonder how many are already jumping up and down in anguish at my question.Maybe it is an age thing with me , But this morning looking at a couple of TBT bell auctions, the rate offered is the equivalent of 100 TBT being worth 2 mil in game bells. Bell Tree Forum does not encourage duping in any shape or form, but you cannot tell me that paying those sort of prices is being funded by catching bugs overnights, so you are actively encouraging people to dupe so they can offer more and more outrageous prices to buy TBT bells.

TBT bells appear to have taken over the Forum and are causing a multitude of problems by spawning a generation of some greedy and selfish players, who appear to have started playing the game recently and want everything NOW. Don't they realise that the fun in the game is waiting for and earning the items rather than selling their TBT bells to the highest bidder and buying everything straight away?

I collect TBT bells, it was just for the fun of it, but it isn't fun any longer and I don't do anything constructive with my TBT bells in any case except buy the odd collectible to use as a GIVAWAY. So why do others collect them? There is a limit to how many one needs for a name change and somehow upping the exchange rate just for the sake of it seems rather a senseless thing to do.

I could be totally alone in thinking that the TBT bell system needs an overhaul of major proportions, what it is now cannot possibly be what it was originally intended for!

 

[Farobi]

But how will we get collectibles? ;w;

 

[Nerd House]

but you cannot tell me that paying those sort of prices is being funded by catching bugs overnights,

Actually, yes I can.

I made 12.4 million bells last night in about an hour and a half doing just that. It's not hard.

You can make EVEN MORE by playing the Turnip Market. Buy from Joan at a low price, then find someone on the forum here with a High Turnip price. The last time I bought/sold turnips I made over 25million bells off a locker full.

You can make even more with both methods if you time-travel.
Not 7PM? Make it so and go catch bugs!
Joan have a crappy buy price? TT to a Sunday where she has a lower price!

To be completely honest though, both in-game bells and TBT Bells are 100% worthless, as they are not real currency. So why worry about it?

 

[Murray]

- people were greedy before they started using tbt bells as essentially an in-game currency
- most of the time tbt bells are used as an alternative, merely a third party between in game bells and the product
- You don't even have to use tbt bells, if you're buying in game items most of the time you can just use in game currency

I don't see how tbt bells are encouraging duping anymore then the want for any in-game product/villager

 

[Kildor]

I think you're a tad bit overreacting, chap.
I don't see any duping happening in the BellTree, so we can't just assume people are duping for TBT bells.
They either sell villagers or collectibles, or get them in giveaways
Or even making quality posts. If they are abolished, what would we use to buy collectibles and services?
Most art shops or hybrid shops accept TBT bells as payment, and it would be unfair to them if the admins abolish it just because people are going crazy over it. Think about it. We use TBT for alot of stuff other than selling it for In-game bells.

 

[Yui Z]

Sadly, there's no way to tell if someone's duping. :/ I see your point, and part of me wants to agree with you, but at the same time I don't think TBT bells should be completely abolished. Like Farobi said, how would be buy collectibles? We could earn them some other way? But then that makes it too easy to get them. It would cut back on the spam probably. TBT bells are part of the fun in this forum too.

I have mixed feelings on this.

 

[Cariad]

Let people do their thing. I think we should care about ourselves. Apart from the staff who have to care about us.

 

[gnoixaim]

I'm just confused why you're questioning others on how they get their in-game bells..? I'm sure others are wondering how you're able to cash out 1 million AC bells for 100 tbt bells all the time (or whatever the current rate is).

 

[Farobi]

Actually I'm pretty sure the person BiggKitty is talking about, is duping. I did some, well let's say, research. Been on GameFAQs, I've seen their name requesting duping services for crowns. And...yeah.

 

[debinoresu]

no? I think theyre useful to be used as an alternative to in game bells. i could consider myself to have 15m bells, but I can just store tbt bells instead and sell them if I need bells. my 3ds isnt available to me very often, so its useful to have another form of currency available that I can just trade with online.

good for you if you dont use tbt bells for in-game bells, but lots of other people do. its a useful and stable system and I dont see why it needs to be eliminated.

also people were always greedy lmfao even if tbt bells are eliminated theyll still sell things for lots of bells? if anything eliminating tbt bells will make prices for things inflate even more and **** up the trading system on tbt

 

[Kildor]

Actually I'm pretty sure the person BiggKitty is talking about, is duping. I did some, well let's say, research. Been on GameFAQs, I've seen their name requesting duping services for crowns. And...yeah.

That's on Gamefaqs. That does not apply on BellTree Territory. If another forum allows it, let them be.
It's not our buisness. It's their game, not ours

 

[gnoixaim]

That's on Gamefaqs. That does not apply on BellTree Territory. If another forum allows it, let them be.
It's not our buisness. It's their game, not ours

I'm pretty sure that's still not allowed. Zr388 specifically answered this question, lol. (in this thread)

 

[Farobi]

That's on Gamefaqs. That does not apply on BellTree Territory. If another forum allows it, let them be.
It's not our buisness. It's their game, not ours

I remember a mod answered that somewhere in Ask the Staff or ZR's thread. They still are against it.

 

[Kildor]

I'm pretty sure that's still not allowed. Zr388 specifically answered this question, lol. (in this thread)

I'm talking about GameFaqs. Duping isn't allowed, but why would we care about others who dupe outside of the forums?
It's not our business, and the rules don't apply to them. So I personally feel we should let them dupe if they want(people from Gamefaqs)
Because the rules there are not the same here.
Edit : Can people still get an infraction for duping outside the forums?

 

[gnoixaim]

I'm talking about GameFaqs. Duping isn't allowed, but why would we care about others who dupe outside of the forums?
It's not our business, and the rules don't apply to them. So I personally feel we should let them dupe if they want(people from Gamefaqs)
Because the rules there are not the same here.
Edit : Can people still get an infraction for duping outside the forums?

Depends on what you're doing. If you're talking about duping/cloning/hacking on another forum, then it doesn't fall under our jurisdiction at all. However, if you're SELLING those items or bells, or generally transferring things that aren't legit, and it's found out, then yes, at that point you're in our jurisdiction if the transaction is made on this forum.

So say you're on another forum. Let's just call it fakecrossing. You're having an awesome discussion about duping. Sweet. Everyone there is all for it. You do it, have fun, it's all good. That's all on fakecrossing's rules. However, you have a duped object, come over here, and try and sell it. Someone finds one of your posts from fakecrossing, lets one of us know the item is duped, or there's some other reason people believe it to be a dupe. Since the transaction would be made here, then it's against the rules. That's all.

Here you go.

 

[BiggKitty]

Oh! I do love controversial questions....

 

[Kildor]

Here you go.

That's basically what I meant. They can dupe in another forum all they want, but don't bring that here.

 

[BiggKitty]

But how will we get collectibles? ;w;

Perhaps a credit system that a member earned but could not sell on to a third party

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That's basically what I meant. They can dupe in another forum all they want, but don't bring that here.

But if they dupe in another Forum then bring the in game bells they made from duping to the Bell Tree Forum to buy TBT bells, of course it has an impact no matter what you say to the contrary

 

[Waluigi]

Just set the exchange rate at a permenant rate, unless it needs to be changed.

Anyone who tries to sell above gets in trouble.

 

[Kildor]

Perhaps a credit system that a member earned but could not sell on to a third party

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But if they dupe in another Forum then bring the in game bells they made from duping to the Bell Tree Forum to buy TBT bells, of course it has an impact no matter what you say to the contrary

Then they will get in trouble. Just report them. No need to abolish TBT bells just because a person duped and sold it here.
It's unfair to those who actually use it right.