Who Else Time Travels?

[Jhine7]

I don't TT, but see nothing wrong with those who do.

 

[Opal]

I do sometimes, especially when I want to kick a villager out

 

[wolfie1]

I think the only time I ever time traveled was in New Leaf when I got Clay via Spotpass from a random person, and he literally put his house where no one could pass or walk. I couldn't do anything, so I had to time travel to kick him out. That was also the last time I ever activated Spotpass when I didn't have the maximum villager number.

 

[JKDOS]

As of last week, I've started manipulating the clock within the same day to sort of freeze time when I'm not playing. This allows me to slow the pace down, and get to experience things like mornings in the game with my busy schedule and all. When I'm ready to skip to the current time or even day, I'll fix the clock.

I still don't TT to any day or time in the future.

I TT'ed just once to a day in the past to see if lightning storms were based on the weather seed. Doing so, I manage to unlock the messy hair, so that was an unexpected bonus.

 

[Klauser_Bateson]

I've TT'ed multiple times in this game, mainly for personal reasons or because I'm impatient:

- I restarted with a new island a week and a half into April, but I went back to launch day because I wanted my passport to show that I registered on 3/20.
- I did the cherry blossom event a second time for more cherry-blossom DIYs (I got like 2 or 3 the first go, but I was swimming in bamboo DIYs)
- I've done the Redd exploit twice (for museum reasons, but also to decorate my house and island with art (I have paintings hanging in every room of my house, all of them real)
-I'm planning on TT for villager reasons (just learned that Frita is moving to my island and I don't want her so I'm going to force her out with TT and amiibo.

 

[MrPicard]

I've TT'd a few times now to get villagers I disliked out, but it's such a hassle (the weeds that grow! uuuugh) that I'm really glad that I finally have only villagers I truly like on my island. Unless I really end up disliking one of them I most likely won't be doing any TT again any time soon.

 

[Bethboj]

In all the other AC games I’ve played I’ve been a full on time traveler.
min ACNH I time traveled when I first got the game, then realised I liked waiting patiently. So I reset. I played “legit” for a month or so then realised that south facing river exits are the bane of my existence so I reset again and I’m back to time travelling but not as much.
I try to not catch any fish or bugs while I’m time travelling, and most of the time I’ll return to the current date once I’m finished playing NH. Although the past few days I’ve not played that much, kinda waiting for this update

 

[beehumcrossing]

I time traveled at the beginning of the game to make everything go faster! I kind of regret that decision but i still time travel!

Today I time-traveled to 5AM tomorrow and am searching for Olivia on Nook Islands! :>

 

[Disneyfangirl23]

yeah sometimes I do~

 

[Flunkifera]

I timetravelled in the beginning of New Leaf but it ruined the fun for me so I stopped with that. I haven't timetravelled in New Horizons so far but eventually I play on doing it because Red & Gulliver are so damn rare on my island and I want to collect the art section & Gulliver's items.

partly because I didn't like being "away" from my town for so long, partly because I can't (I'm still annoyed that they didn't just put the holidays in, feels like they gave into the holier than thous who hate time traveling ),

Probably they locked the holidays because of timetravellers who ruin and spoil the whole game & fun for non-timetravellers

 

[Hobowire]

i TT quite a bit because i want to complete the achievements

 

[Larsi]

I don't TT in New Horizons. Did it with New Leaf but this game I don't want to. I'm completing a lot without doing that so there's no need for me to do.

 

[That Marshal Fangirl]

I do, but not to entirely different seasons anymore like I did to get unwanted villagers out in the beginning. Currently I'll only time travel forward a couple days or so to get projects done, or if rare NPCs show up. I had Flick on June 29th and Redd today (July 1st), so I'm just going through that span of days to farm art and bug models.

 

[Serabee]

And... I'm done replying to everyone, or I'd be here all day
(and I can't do that... I'm still working on my island remodel )

Yeah I also don’t be feeling like cleaning up my island when I go back to current date. But that’s just part of the price to pay when I TT. I still love it and I’ll wear my badge as time traveler proudly. I remember seeing comments on another animal crossing website and people were just bashing time travelers saying that Nintendo needs to add a badge that says “cheater” for people like us. It trips me out that people were really bothered by this.

I just... seriously, how does it affect them? I'll never get it. Again, when someone's cheating in a game AGAINST someone, I totally get it. That's not cool. But my game has no effect on them whatsoever.
Sometimes it seems like they actually want to time travel, but don't have the guts or whatever, so they just... get really, REALLY mad that it's an option but they're not taking it? IDK.

I imagine tutors are in the same boat as paras, with much less to do than normal due to lack of students. Hopefully things will pick back up (safely) in the fall!

Well, I work through an outside agency, so I DO have to do some stuff just to get time on my timesheets (and get paychecks, I'm really fortunate I've been paid this whole time) but it's mostly watching videos online for about an hour a week. Pretty sweet deal, really, and it also leaves me with A TON of free time

Which is required to craft the frozen set. And you can have 4 on your island at a time. So getting 4 large snowflakes a day, assuming you keep building perfect ones in place of the one that had melted the day of, is pretty nice. Losing all of them because you went back 1 measly minute... not worth it.

Oh, that's good to know To be honest, I don't time travel backwards very often (only if there's a real life event that's added and I may miss it, I time traveled less, and backwards more, during Bunny Day... which, I may be weird, but I actually really enjoyed) but I'll have to remember that!
...In, like, six months. Wish me luck, my memory is terrible

Probably they locked the holidays because of timetravellers who ruin and spoil the whole game & fun for non-timetravellers

I saw people arguing that and it was like... what. Some people were like "Oh, well, it's so time travelers can't spoil things for everyone else!" But... I'm willing to bet THE VAST MAJORITY of time travelers... don't. I know I don't. If I'm gonna talk about a mechanic or event or whatever that not everyone has experienced, I'll give everyone a heads up, so if they don't want spoilers they can ignore it completely.
Plus, I always APPRECIATED time travelers when I'd get to an event! For instance, I was stumped by the Thanksgiving event in NL- how did I get things like flour? Thank goodness for time travelers having made guides I could find online, I got an answer right away
(AND I figured out I could totally abuse that event to get free exotic fruit, which was nice )

Frankly, I think the main reason is the reason they're releasing updates... because they released an unfinished game. Which, not gonna lie, I NORMALLY like- in the sense that, when I'm starting to get bored with a game, it'll release an update that draws me back in. But I still miss being able to visit holidays. Halloween is my favorite holiday EVER and... I mean, sometimes you just need to experience it in July, ya know?

 

[matt2019]

I time travel because I just enjoy the game more that way. Overall I find it the most fun way for ME to play. But I respect the people that don’t as well

 

[Nicolette]

I've been time traveling since WW, so it's always just been part of the games for me. I don't do any major jumps in time like I did as a kid, but I will go back and forth a day or so occasionally.

I time traveled when I first got the game, because I wanted a birthday party. I think my first day being my birthday on top of bunny day messed it up, because I never got one even after going back a few days after. Since then, I only time travel if I'm moving multiple buildings at one time or Redd visits. He comes so infrequently, that I feel like I have to time travel to benefit from his visits. I only ever do it until I've spent all the bells I had in my pockets which has always been less than 40k. So the museum progress is still slow, but not like molasses

 

[Karmahri]

I don't have the patience to wait a whole day to move a building just for me to realize its off by a couple of squares and then having to move it again so I usually time travel for that purpose. Also if I'm decorating an area and want to see how everything looks right away I would usually time travel for furniture as well. I completed my art gallery in my museam so I don't have to time travel for crazy redd anymore but I used to when I was missing a couple of art pieces.

 

[JellyBeans]

I had to restart my island a few days after launch because I got a new switch but wanted my start date to be release date so I kind of set myself up to TT from the beginning hah. now I only do it if I'm dying to get a villager out or too impatient to wait a day for each building to move

 

[Marshmallows]

Meh, I time travel pretty often now, but it is a cheat. You have obvious advantages over people that don't.... so I completely understand people that don't want to time travel being annoyed at times by people who do, because it's not the same play experience and things get spoiled and it diminishes goals and achievements. Some people have more game integrity... that's their right. I personally don't (if I can get through the annoying bits by some shortcut or game-approved cheat, I'll do it), but I respect other playstyles.

It seems time travellers are often a bit on the defensive about using a cheat. Just own it. It's the same as using an unlimited money cheat or Godmode of whatever dev approved in game cheat. And it's okay. I could never play the Sims much without money cheats myself.

 

[DinosaurDumpster]

I've been time traveling since i first started playing the series since i'm really impatient. I used to time travel every 5 minutes, but I stopped doing that when NH came out so I could experience the game more aside from checking the shops and talking to my villagers.