I only time travel in New Horizons whenever I forget to get my daily Nook Miles and end up with those 80 Miles that look awkward to look at. I time travel until I get to a number where the first or second day of checking in will cause the number to end in 50 or 00 the next day. And if I do time travel, it is only a couple hours in the same day and I reset to the correct time after I do whatever I needed to do.
It's not something I generally do. - It always feels like I enjoy things more when I just play the games as they are intended. But, there are definitely exceptions to that rule. Particularly, if a game is especially stingy with resources...or puts too long of a refresh rate on certain aspects of play. But...when a game feels properly balanced, I rarely feel the need to manipulate anything.
Sometimes, yeah! I time-travel in ACNH (was too scared to really mess with it in New Leaf) so I don't have to worry about playing super regularly, and while I actually didn't even need to, when I first started I was actually planning to restart to get a few things I wanted at the beginning. I also save scum in Dragon Quest casinos, or in Pokémon if I'm hoping for a particular gender from a starter/egg, etc. Also, if I lose to a boss in a game or get party-wiped, I usually just reload so I won't lose money or items or whatever. It doesn't detract from my enjoyment of a game; if anything, it just spares me some frustration. Or saves me some time.
I don't do anything more complicated or risky than that kind of stuff though. Also, side note that I play predominantly single-player games; I wouldn't want to exploit the game to gain an advantage in something that was competitive multiplayer.
Depends on the game, I guess. If it's a game I enjoy, then I don't typically reset unless the RNG takes the cake (you know - 5% chance for a crit, CPU manages to do it three times in a row, you have a 70% chance to crit, it never happens, then you lose all your in-game cash). It doesn't usually bother me enough otherwise.
If it's a game I'm tired of, one I'm not too interested in, or I know it would take far too long to complete otherwise (real art in ACNH for instance), then yeah, I'll abuse the system to complete it quicker.
