Time Traveling

[Rover AC]

I only Time Travel to receive items in the post which I ordered the previous "day". But to time travel continuously for Holidays and such is just dumb in my opinion. You get weeds and lose your favourite villagers in your town. I mean I don't think as it as cheating because their are a few advantages but I wouldn't do it to extremes.

 

[JKDOS]

I once flipped the hours around so the PM was in place for the AM.
Example: at 11:30pm IRL, it's 11:30am in ACWW. This is because I found myself playing more at night than in the day.

I don't plan on TT or any time changes other than daylight savings for ACJO.

 

[jebug29]

I'm never at home during the time that I'd like to be playing AC. I don't want to just be a nightowl. Plus, I hate it when weeds grow or I've missed so much that someone moves out, so I always travel back in time to the next day. I've never seen anything wrong with it. I've done it since I had the original game. It just kills me how in ACCF, that balloon dude only comes if you haven't time traveled in a while. I'm not going to neglect my neighbors for a balloon.

 

[blumiere]

Not counting all the in-game adverse effects of time travelling, I'd say it's not good because it undermines the intended experience of Animal Crossing (daily growth of one's character and town). However, I also think people should play their games the way they want.

It would be a shame for someone to become bored with AC because they jumped to the holidays or seasons, but that doesn't happen to everyone. Taking it very seriously, one could say that TT encourages a lack of impulse control since the culprit chooses not to wait until a certain date to get their presents. On the other hand, hourly/one day TT is understandable because of odd schedules and busy days.

I personally don't care if other people do it, but I wouldn't myself and don't encourage anyone else to either.

 

[WhitneyLeigh23]

I used to time travel all the time in WW with my brother, but that was when we first got the game and didn't truly understand it. we just had fun. now I have CF and i actually play the games for their purpose, to progress in your town and do actual daily activities. I still do it sometimes in WW, but I am not going to do it in JO, because I want it to be my serious game where I put in all effort to have a great town.

 

[indigoXdaisy]

I don't time travel at all. Even if I miss special holidays or my birthday, I still don't do it. It doesn't seem right to me and if I miss a holiday, big deal. It kind of bothers me when other people do it to see holidays, get mail quicker, or get the next house/shop upgrade. The game is supposed to be realistic, and it's not realistic for mail to be delivered right away. That's why the game has set mail times - for realism. For me, time traveling would ruin the experience and fun, and the game would get boring very quick, because there's nothing to look forward to when you can just skip right to it. In a way, I do consider it cheating. But to each his own, I guess.

 

[Dizzard]

I don't like doing it myself because it messes up my town and villagers move away.

However I don't have a problem with others doing it.....it's their mess to clean up.

 

[monticola]

I play the game using real time and I prefer it anyway. it?s just a game. I should try it once and see the difference.

 

[JCnator]

I'm not always using the time travel trick to get the most out of the game. I usually do that whenever it is required, like having to keep the turnip prices the same if someone needs to sell their white turnips, slow down the time to actually rotten my turnips, accessing holidays and events I missed, and whatnot. If you know well on how to use it, the adverse effects from TTing will be quite minimal.

Some people might consider that time travelling is cheating, but when compared to "hacking", the latter easily takes the cake.
Either way, I don't have any objection if they do, as long it doesn't hurt me in some way, because the vast majority of Animal Crossing players in the planet wouldn't do because they're either too lazy to do these tricks anyway. It takes you a lot of effort to "complete" the game even if you abuse TTing, and you'll eventually get tired of it for at least a while.

 

[TrainerRosie]

I usually just use it 'cause I don't have time in the day to play it sometimes and I want to get stuff that can only be gotten in the day. (Examples: special characters in Wild World that only come at 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Joan, Tom Nook's store, etc.)

 

[Stevey Queen]

When me and my sister shared a Wild World town, she would want to time travel the day Nook would be expanding his store. I let her jump the day and then I would go back to the right date. I like to play the game day by day though and that's the only time I time traveled. I won't do it in New Leaf.

 

[Lyssa]

I actually agree with another user... I've used it when I play for a while on one day, and have nothing else to do, I go to the next day and I change around the hours sometimes - especially at times when I won't be up to play I think it's nice to experience all hours of the day at least once X) I used to do this - City Folk I didn't TT... but for some reason CF got old to me after a while... now I go to my town every 2+ weeks or something... maybe even longer...

I'm gonna try playing day to day in NL and see where it gets me and how I feel. ^^

 

[Rois Athyrrei]

I Time Traveled quite a bit on Wild World. Usually to receive mail, get upgrades or just to visit seasons for bugs/fish/events. It's just the fact it RUINS your game and takes ages to fix the effects so I would do it all early on and get what I wanted.

 

[pruzzy]

I don't like it much and have only done it twice. The first time was because my friends came over on Halloween so I couldn't do Halloween on my game so the next day I set it back so I could go trick-or-treating again. The second was because I had a whole bunch of things to sell but Tom Nook was renovating so I went to the next day to clear out. I don't like it though because people in your town leave, weeds grow, and it's cheating.

 

[Kaia]

Oh, I time travel constantly in WW :B I just feel like I have to do it. Once I get everything I want in Nook's/Able Sisters, talk to all my villagers, see if a special villager visited my town, collect money to put into mortgage, and travel around the town searching for fish, bugs, fossils, etc, there's just not a whole lot else to do. So then I just change the time to the next day and make it noon or so :B If I start up the game and all the shops are closed, then I'm not gonna wait however many hours for the shops to open, ima go right ahead and change the clock. The most I'll ever time travel is a day though, because I don't want weeds, I don't want to miss items, and I don't want anybody moving out. ​

 

[DaisyCrossing]

I'm fine with it. Probably cuz I do it. It's mainly because I'm naturally am an impatient person and I wanted to hurry up and pay for my house and etc. Also to reach certain holidays whenever I felt like it. So my reasons aren't good lol. I'm going to try and not do it this time around when I get new leaf. And rather than get annoyed that I can't have fun playing AC on one specific day for 14 hours and thus change the date 59 times to keep me wanting to play longer, I'll just pace myself, play for a couple hours each day and actually relax and try to enjoy myself.

I think it's a good thing for the feature to be there though because while it can be used for cheating, some people I'm sure use it for better reasons such as, let's say, they were out all day on Halloween in rl and completely missed the opportunity to get a new item. Fear not, they can just turn back time, accomplish that really quick, and go forward again.

 

[Picci]

I hate time traval.