Multi town players are your towns all IRL time

katysu said:

Not sure why you can't see when you last played on a town (for your Birth date day) - not showable in activity log?

Well I play many towns, I'm unwilling to say how many, apart from saying I'm at the very max that I can deal with, if not over). But each one means a lot to me, they all have town/character names that link back to special happy times in the past. I could not ever bring myself to delete one.
They are all on cart, all on their own 3ds (I'm an adult, its my choice to buy, I buy a unit if on offer & I won't be buying any more, yes a luxury, but its my main/almost only form of relaxation).

I never try and keep up with anything, these games are my relaxation, stress free time. They are all still in 2013 (well one is near to coming up to 2014) - I set them in 2013 even tho the last one I bought was last year. No necessity to do this, I just did. (2013 is the year my father died, maybe that has something to do with it).

There are no issues with being on a different date, system updates (for the unit) come down OK, DLC (when we had it, I'm in UK so I've not had any for a long time) comes down fine, whatever date you are on.
Streetpass works OK, when or if I get it, that's not down to the date its set on tho.

You can visit other towns (to sell turnips etc) set on any other date, past or future. [Turnips spoil based on the date you buy - I always buy in my own town, going to a town on a different date to sell, has no effect].

Unsure if how you change time has any impact - I don't think it has.
Since acww days (where it was a necessity) I change time on the ds unit in system settings and then load the game.
I keep both times in sync as I only play acnl, no other time related games. I find it simpler if only because it gives me a 2nd chance of seeing the time I save (if I forget to note ingame I can see it on the unit itself). I make a written note of the time I save.
I only move forward ingame, change the system clock back to the time I want, after the time I last saved.

No stress, lovey easy game to play. But it is a game and does not take the place of real life, it gets put on hold for real life issues or if just don't feel like playing.

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amanda1983 said:

I don't know what "ITL" means sorry? I tried googling but couldn't find it.

I keep both my towns in different times and am working - vaguely - towards getting them back up to the real date. One is mid 2015 and the other is about to hit New Year's of 2016. I don't mind at all having towns in different years and seasons. I don't intentionally do anything to *keep* them seperate, I just prefer to play each in-game day (or skip only a couple of months max). So this is what happens lol.

I change my date/time in the 3DS settings, too, for the same reasons others do. It's far easier for me to keep track of when I last played this way, using my activity log (as I only play one ACNL per console). It's also easier for me sustain a "pause" if I don't get back to playing within a day or so in real time, since I can look at the frozen date + time displayed when opening my 3DS (I leave it suspended in the clock app). Since I started leaving my 3DSes like this I haven't had any issues with accidentally TTing forward or back, so it works for me.

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katysu said:

Classygirl, I'm dyslexic, and although I check what I write before I post, I still miss a lot.
Pleased that lovely made you smile, I meant to write lovely but wrote lovey (which is a term of affection, albeit its not used so much now). One of my villagers says Luv a duck!

Names villagers want to call you: I know you can refuse what they suggest, sometimes they allow you to enter a new one, sometimes not. If they give me the option, I'll try something different - you've given me ideas!
I do use pleasant/funny greetings/catchphrases - its a fun part of the game and makes me smile too.
If I get stuck I flick through a dictionary of rhyming slang (John Ayto) British/Australian but there is probably similar for the US. I like giving them something funny/relevant to their breed. Loads on google but I play the game off line, so like a book. As you see I go off on tangents quickly.
I too play when I can't sleep, but it 'wakes me up' a bit too much, reading helps better.
My units too were bought over the years, mainly as a birthday/Christmas present.

Dorian - truly pleased/relieved that there is a player that has more towns than I have.

amanda1983 - I can't see 'ITL' in the thread, its there somewhere - don't know what it means either.

Didn't know I could pause the unit (I think that is what you are saying, that you freeze the time on the unit itself?)
I turn mine off, as it can be several weeks before I pick up a unit up again.

Turning off has caused one anomaly within the acnl game - although I turn the unit off, there is a battery, so the system time progresses while the time ingame is frozen.

If I streetpass games, where I haven't played one of the games for a while, it occasionally means I pick up an older version of the other game (in the form of the character/house that is in HHA plaza).
It will be an older version to what I am actually playing in that game. (different clothes, a lot less developed house to what I have currently). It rectifies on the next streetpass if I play that other game first (presumably cos I reset the system time back to play it). But I don't really understand why it picks up that much earlier copy in the first place. Not important, a puzzle, I sort of get it but not quite.

duh ITL is in the title & I didn't read it - don't know, I scan and misread all the time, guess I read it as are your towns in real time.

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