Time Traveling

[Justin]

For those who won't know, Time Traveling is when you change the time on your system/game to a different date than it really is in real life. Usually the reason people do this is to speed up things (like expanding your house or Nook's) or to access special holidays on their own time.

From what I've seen Animal Crossing players online seem to very different opinions on this subject. Some seem to think Time Traveling is pretty much the devil and you're horrible for doing it, yet others do it all the time and don't care at all.

So, how does everyone here feel about it?

 

[Jake]

I don't care that much. If it wasn't meant to be done they wouldn't put it in the game. It does have consequences though like no turnips from Joan, bad turnip prices, no Redd, weeds etc...

I mean, it really doesn't bother me that much, I can see why people would want to do it.

 

[Prof Gallows]

TEIM TRAVALING IS CHEETING

Oh man. I can't even begin to start counting how many times I've seen that here on TBT.
Like Jake said, it's in the game as a feature, if you want to use it then there isn't anything wrong with it.

Personally, I don't time travel very often in AC. It ruins too much of the things that I spend a lot of time working on, and I'm not too bothered on missing a few holidays.

 

[Anna]

Used to do it when my town had nothing happening in it. Not going to do it in the new game.

 

[Justin]

I don't think it's cheating or anything crazy like that but it still kind of ruins the game in my opinion. Especially now that the game is online and it's really fun to experience the events together. I don't like how people can just skip ahead and see everything ahead of time.

 

[Gandalf]

When my save file on city folk got wiped a while back I just started a new Town and time travelled the hell out of it. That was fun for one afternoon but wasn't very satisfying in the long run. I think that part of the fun of animal crossing is watching your town grow over a long period of time, working towards things like golden tools, house upgrades and new seasons etc. Time travelling just kills that aspect of the game. That's just me though, and really it's not a huge deal If someone wants to time travel; they have they're own reasons to do it just like I have my own town and they have theirs.

I'm not going to lie, if I visit someone's town that's just beyond amazing and they say that they time travelled the whole time to get it this way, it kind of ruins the awe for me. I wouldn't go as far as to call them a cheater though.

 

[Toeto]

Always did it in Wild World. But I'm not going to do it in the 3DS version, I'll neither get myself a new town after a few months because I want the same town forever, just as in my gamecube version.

 

[Juicebox]

I honestly don't care if you time travel or not. It's your game after all, and it isn't going to affect anyone else other than the time-traveler, so why should it bother me? I personally don't do it because I like experiencing the game in real time because one of my favorite parts of the game is playing it every day and having it be a little different. I'm also too lazy to reset my clock anyways.

 

[Elijo]

I used to time travel a lot too. Well I still do, but not as often. Usually when I miss a few days of not animal crossing. Just to make sure my villagers don't leave.

 

[Kyle]

I don't think it was intended as a feature actually since I don't know where in game time can be changed. You'd have to do it in Wii/DS/GCN settings normally. But I don't mind people who chose to do it, I used to a lot. But now I don't since it makes a game that is supposed to be played over months be completed in days.

 

[Dylab]

I don't really care about it about time traveling I would not say it's cheating

 

[Cherrypie]

I don't really mind people doing it, but the reason I think that you can change the clock in the game is not because Nintendo intended that people can time travel. Well, they maybe thought that some people are going to miss important holidays and blah blah blah, but another reason I think is just because some people do the time wrong (as in maybe they accidentally made it half an hour early at the start). In City Folk I got my clock about 20 minutes different to my real time, but I always was too scared to change it even just a couple of minutes, because I don't like the effects it does. Does tt effect your game if you just change the time, not the day?

Edit: Does the game automatically fix itself when it is daylight savings?

 

[Jake]

I'm pretty sure you need to do it manually

 

[LilyElizabeth]

I've done my fair share of time travelling and hacking. I'll be honest, I don't want to do it anymore. I binned my action replay and promised I'd never time travel again. I'm not dead against it, I don't think it's like the devil and that anyone who does it should be ashamed, I mean each to their own right? But personally, I think it takes away from the game a bit. So when AC3DS comes out, I've already promised that I won't time travel or hack it

 

[Trakker]

I would not consider time travelling as cheating.

Some people can only play in the wee hours of the morning, with no shops open, so that would be a disadvantage to them. And who said AC time had to exactly match IRL time?

 

[Juicebox]

I would not consider time travelling as cheating.

Some people can only play in the wee hours of the morning, with no shops open, so that would be a disadvantage to them. And who said AC time had to exactly match IRL time?

I don't think setting your time differently counts as time traveling so long as it stays within the same consistent time. I think when people jump around weeks or months is when it's dictated as time traveling.

For instance, my Animal Crossing town for the Gamecube was 6 months ahead and 8 hours off just because that was my Gamecube's default time, and I didn't know how to change it. I didn't count that as time traveling because I never changed the time and I just let it move normally despite not being the correct time.

 

[Garrett x50 cal]

Who here remembers Storms "The Gentlemens Anti-TTing Agreement" Half the forum signed it but less than a quarter followed it.

The truth is TT'ing makes AC completely fresh and new when it starts to get old so its sorta necessary.

 

[Toeto]

Once I got bored of my first town in any of the games, I'd reset it and make a new one.
Then the new one became bored quick .. so i'd time travel to the summer/fun days.
It's fun for a couple days but it ruins the game.. I will NOT time travel in the 3ds version..

 

[Officer Berri]

I wouldn't call it cheating myself, but I'd never do it on any of my towns. I really hate weeds and all the weeds that pop up are mind numbingly annoying. Plus I don't see much point since I really enjoy playing the game day-by-day so I have no real reason to ever use time traveling.

Plus, I'm always paranoid at doing it. My brother used to time travel all the time on the GameCube version and one day his memory card up and corrupted on him. It probably has nothing to do with the time traveling and all to do with the type of memory card it was, but I still have that childhood fear of "Oh no if I do this it might destroy my town!" Didn't help that my favorite villager had moved to his town and was lost along with the data.

 

[Tammyface]

I've (sort of) always time traveled and I probably will for Jump Out too. The thing is, I TT in a really specific way.
I play like usual for half an hour or one hour or two hours and whatever, and after I've exhausted everything I wanted to do that day, I go just one day forward. Then it's completely new-- new stuff in shops, new mail, things I ordered might have come, etc. It's actually a bit to slow for me otherwise, so going forward just one day at a time, only when I'm ready though, it keeps it exciting for me! I also change around the time of day, like if I'm in the mood for some 1 am late-night bug hunting, or feeling relaxed and want to play at 8 am when things are quiet and serene. But yeah, one day at a time meets no surge of weeds, no animals leaving, basically no unnatural stuff and no feeling like you've missed something. It's never, ever ruined the game for me, I love it!

If I really want a total change, like to go from summer to winter, I sometimes travel that big jump but I go back in time so that I don't get weeds or animals leaving. It's really exciting to go through that change and have all new scenery, bugs, fish, and holidays. I've never regretted it