Yesterday I decided I wanted to try dabbling in this time travelling I heard so much about. I have a list of villagers that I want and I wanted to time travel to get at least one of them at my campsite. so here's my experience with that:
Yesterday afternoon I was able to sell my turnips. that meant that I no longer had anything to lose if I time traveled, so in the evening, I started doing just that. since I didn't have a campsite visitor in a while, I just went day by day and resetting the game every time isabelle mentioned that there was no news. and on the 12th, we had a hit. visitor. yeey! So I went to meet them. it was Bea. not really looking for bea. so I quit my game.
and here I make the first mistake. I put my date back to the 9th hoping I can trick the game into thinking that, 6 days from the 9th, I should have 20% chance on a visitor. But no, it does not work like that.
on the 9th I open my game and I clean things up a bit. read the mail and get rid of some weeds. Cheri has a bubble above her head and says she wants to leave. I ask her not to and she stays. good. because cheri is on my list of villagers i want to keep. after this, I get back to it.
Thinking I fooled the game, I put my date on the 15th and started moving forward. on the 17th there is an announcement. "it's spike's birthday today" ... here is where I started to feel guilt. since I was traveling, I knew it didn't make sense to go to his party. but not doing so felt ... bad! after isabelle finished her announcement, I stood there, outside my house. I went in, came back out after doing nothing ... and closed the game to put the clock a day forward.
on the 19th, second visitor! yeey. it was Alfonso. Also not on my list. So reset. at this point I was still unaware that putting my clock back did nothing. So i changed my day back to the 9th and started cleaning up. at this point I started to get worried. weeds were everywhere and some areas where I purposefully left weeds to look overgrown started looking really really bad. if every weed is fully grown, it doesn't look as good anymore. during my cleanup, I noticed skye had a bubble. I told her that I didn't want her to leave too. but that was the second of my favorite villagers to do so. I was having doubts about the whole thing.
But I had to persist! I put my clock back to the 15th and started going forward day by day. I passed Spike's birthday again (still guilty, but with a little less doubt this time) and I stopped on the 19th. at this point I guessed that going back might not do what I wanted it to. So I just started cleaning a bit to prepare for a skip of another 5 days. Then I saw Antonio with a bubble. Antonio was fine though since I kinda wanted him gone. and so i let him go. I didn't have many NMTs (which is why I wanted to try the campsite in the first place) but I would try to get someone with the 6 that I had. Only ... I skipped 1 day too far ahead after that and his spot was taken before I could look for someone. and obviously, it wasn't someone I liked (it's Kitt, and sure, Kitt is ok. better than Sylvia or *shivers* Rodney. but not really someone I wanted. Antonio was my only Jock. now i don't have a Jock villager anymore). I skipped another 8 days (day by day) before someone new showed up. this time, Angus. still not a good one.
Since I wasn't fully convinced yet about the fact that going back did nothing I tried 1 last time. changed the time back to the 9th, opened the game, looked around my island, felt really bad about it because there were weeds everywhere. did not clean up this time. and started the process again. I passed spikes birthday again ... and made it to the 21st. at which point I felt like iI had to clean up first. I didn't want my island to look bad while I was time traveling. So I went out again and ... met pashmina with a bubble. I talked to her and she asked if she could leave. I asked her not to and her response was:
"oh, I didn't know you cared"
That!
Broke!
my!
heart!
Pashmina had taken my heart, stabbed it and stepped on it for good measure. because my actions were neglecting everyone else on the island. what I was doing was killing my friendship with those that were here. and pashmina made damn well sure that I knew this!
I felt bad. really bad.
I closed my game and changed my clock back to the actual day. then I started the cleanup. I talked to all of my villagers and then I closed my game for the day
I'm not time traveling again.
my heart cannot take another comment like that
I'll look for my favorite villagers another way
but time travel is no longer an option
Yesterday afternoon I was able to sell my turnips. that meant that I no longer had anything to lose if I time traveled, so in the evening, I started doing just that. since I didn't have a campsite visitor in a while, I just went day by day and resetting the game every time isabelle mentioned that there was no news. and on the 12th, we had a hit. visitor. yeey! So I went to meet them. it was Bea. not really looking for bea. so I quit my game.
and here I make the first mistake. I put my date back to the 9th hoping I can trick the game into thinking that, 6 days from the 9th, I should have 20% chance on a visitor. But no, it does not work like that.
on the 9th I open my game and I clean things up a bit. read the mail and get rid of some weeds. Cheri has a bubble above her head and says she wants to leave. I ask her not to and she stays. good. because cheri is on my list of villagers i want to keep. after this, I get back to it.
Thinking I fooled the game, I put my date on the 15th and started moving forward. on the 17th there is an announcement. "it's spike's birthday today" ... here is where I started to feel guilt. since I was traveling, I knew it didn't make sense to go to his party. but not doing so felt ... bad! after isabelle finished her announcement, I stood there, outside my house. I went in, came back out after doing nothing ... and closed the game to put the clock a day forward.
on the 19th, second visitor! yeey. it was Alfonso. Also not on my list. So reset. at this point I was still unaware that putting my clock back did nothing. So i changed my day back to the 9th and started cleaning up. at this point I started to get worried. weeds were everywhere and some areas where I purposefully left weeds to look overgrown started looking really really bad. if every weed is fully grown, it doesn't look as good anymore. during my cleanup, I noticed skye had a bubble. I told her that I didn't want her to leave too. but that was the second of my favorite villagers to do so. I was having doubts about the whole thing.
But I had to persist! I put my clock back to the 15th and started going forward day by day. I passed Spike's birthday again (still guilty, but with a little less doubt this time) and I stopped on the 19th. at this point I guessed that going back might not do what I wanted it to. So I just started cleaning a bit to prepare for a skip of another 5 days. Then I saw Antonio with a bubble. Antonio was fine though since I kinda wanted him gone. and so i let him go. I didn't have many NMTs (which is why I wanted to try the campsite in the first place) but I would try to get someone with the 6 that I had. Only ... I skipped 1 day too far ahead after that and his spot was taken before I could look for someone. and obviously, it wasn't someone I liked (it's Kitt, and sure, Kitt is ok. better than Sylvia or *shivers* Rodney. but not really someone I wanted. Antonio was my only Jock. now i don't have a Jock villager anymore). I skipped another 8 days (day by day) before someone new showed up. this time, Angus. still not a good one.
Since I wasn't fully convinced yet about the fact that going back did nothing I tried 1 last time. changed the time back to the 9th, opened the game, looked around my island, felt really bad about it because there were weeds everywhere. did not clean up this time. and started the process again. I passed spikes birthday again ... and made it to the 21st. at which point I felt like iI had to clean up first. I didn't want my island to look bad while I was time traveling. So I went out again and ... met pashmina with a bubble. I talked to her and she asked if she could leave. I asked her not to and her response was:
"oh, I didn't know you cared"
That!
Broke!
my!
heart!
Pashmina had taken my heart, stabbed it and stepped on it for good measure. because my actions were neglecting everyone else on the island. what I was doing was killing my friendship with those that were here. and pashmina made damn well sure that I knew this!
I felt bad. really bad.
I closed my game and changed my clock back to the actual day. then I started the cleanup. I talked to all of my villagers and then I closed my game for the day
I'm not time traveling again.
my heart cannot take another comment like that
I'll look for my favorite villagers another way
but time travel is no longer an option
And alice is so sweet
but I’ll keep an eye out for the ones you want next time I’m island hopping! I very almost took Pekoe in a couple days ago because I come across her quite often, I wish I had now!
