Anyone else about to give in to Time Traveling, or have you kept your TT'ing promises?

[kappnfangirl]

I didn’t TT at all until this week, redoing my island and I just can’t with waiting for bridges and inclined to be built/building relocated. I only do it a day at a time and then move back to regular time.

I’ll stop soon but I don’t feel guilty tbh

 

[nananc]

I TT'd to move villager out, and to move villagers in. The moving-villager-out TT was really painful for me, because I TTed two months ahead and saw changes in the colors of the leaves. These are like spoilers for me. I also talked to Rex while time traveling, and he cried about not seeing me for a month. That broke my heart.

One other time I TT'd was to get this one Gullivarr item, the pirate king's coat. I really wanted it at the time. Now I'm waiting for the weather to get chiller, before I can start wearing it, lol. I dress my avatar according to irl weather.

 

[Dinosaurz]

I have to timetravel (against my will) because I was a dumbass and forgot yesterday was the last day you can get fireworks in animal crossing for the sparkles in the sky contest

 

[avieators]

i've been in the midst of a third island reconstruction, so...a lot of time crimes are happening right now i've always time traveled tho, all the way back to acgc. to me its just another way to play the game, tho i do admire ppl who can wait day by day for things...in acnh i have a personal rule to never leave the month i'm in, it's how fall's still going to be a surprise for me...i did get spoiled on early september and that grass color...yikes!

 

[amemome]

I haven't and don't really plan to (yet). I'm not actively searching for villagers or for visitors so it's ok just taking it day by day. Though sometimes I wish I could TT back to my birthday and get a proper celebration from K.K. (my birthday was a week or so after NH's release so I had a non-musical birthday )

 

[eko]

Originally I planned not to. I never time traveled even once in New Leaf, felt like it was "cheating" or "tarnishing" my game lol. Refused to give in for New Horizons too, that was until I got into a fight with a friend because I was supposed to speedrun giving blathers donations when I was instead picking up weeds on release night.

The criticism really stuck a chord and that's when I realized there's zero benefits to not time travelling? You could say "it's how it was meant to be played" or "real accomplishment" but those are feelings, you're not given any tangible rewards for NOT time travelling? Yet I was determined to play in real-time until winter (southern hemisphere) where I didn't like any of the seasonal diys which completely killed my motivation to continue playing since everyone was showing off their pretty summer islands. So I time traveled past winter to spring, where I was able to get all the gorgeous spring diys, stock on up rocks, cycle villagers, prevent empty plots from being randomly sold, order from the catalog immediately, open the nook store when I'm playing at 2am, quickly move houses/buildings, obtain diys faster, among so many benefits.

I've seen people warn that you will "finish the game faster" by time traveling (I believed that), but I'm barely done with 15% of my island with over 600 hours? My only regret is not doing it sooner and for thinking that it was "wrong" for so many years...

 

[IslaYuka]

I don't and will never time travel in this game.

 

[yoohamsta]

I planned to not timetravel until 1 month into the game which I have stuck to. I also planned to only timetravel to move buildings faster, build bridges/inclines faster, get villagers to move in/out faster, farm NPC items and always set the date back to real time which I have stuck to. I refrain from timetravelling months ahead to get seasonal DIY or complete my critterpedia because I don't want to have nothing to do and want a bit of freshness when the seasons roll around in real time.

 

[Manah]

No plans because I don't like messing with system clocks. Now that I have five characters, doing the daily stuff with all of them once per day is more than enough.

 

[PixieSprinkles79]

Originally I was Snooty and looked down on TT as cheating. I was going to play the game day by day until I got sick and was never able to buy turnips. I had been playing for 2 months and was never able to catch the snot nose seller! lol That's when it all fell apart! Now I'm hooked!

 

[Lavamaize]

I planned not to time travel and I have not! I like to play the game as it comes, so I have something new to do everyday!

 

[k e r f u f f l e]

I only time travel once in a while. I'll only go a day ahead and after I'm done I set it back. The only heavy time traveling that I did was for the campsite method. Otherwise, I don't do it very much whatsoever! Too many hazards.

 

[Roxxy]

I desperately want Christmas and have been so tempted to tt to winter. Just wouldn’t be the same so I am waiting. AC+Jingle=Christmas

 

[Xane_MM]

Though I initially wanted to keep things the same as Wild World and New Leaf and not time travel, once I found out about the cute Birthday Hat and I nearly went insane over it, I time-travelled to collect all three colors. (Also, technically I had to time-travel to get the fireworks picture for the fair, and to keep my empty plot until I got Judy, but those don't seem as bad.) Now I feel less worried to time travel, but I still feel bad if I have to do it.

 

[Pikabun]

I time travel when I wanna kick villagers out or get some arts. Other than that i enjoy time without time travel.

 

[Moon Cake]

I time travelled on my first island, but ended up burning myself out (I got Raymond, millions of bells in the bank, finished all the house upgrades, collected all of the items and DIYs I wanted) and stopped playing. Three months later, I've restarted and decided to not time travel this time around. I'm also much busier now but I'm appreciating the slower pace of the game more

 

[Sheydra]

So far kept my no time travel.

 

[Jaco]

I've done some light time traveling on the same day, + or - a few hours if I missed Daisy Mae or something. Don't mind others time traveling, it's their game (although I'd be lying if I didn't have a little more admiration for people who play the game "as intended", or however Nintendo puts it - is a complete art museum actually impressive if someone just farmed Redd for a few hours?).

 

[KayDee]

I've done some light time traveling on the same day, + or - a few hours if I missed Daisy Mae or something. Don't mind others time traveling, it's their game (although I'd be lying if I didn't have a little more admiration for people who play the game "as intended", or however Nintendo puts it - is a complete art museum actually impressive if someone just farmed Redd for a few hours?).

I mean it’s really no big achievement to complete the art museum since all you’re doing is pretty much waiting for Redd to show up and hope that he has the one you need as compared to the fish and bug collections wherein you have to work to get them. So yeah, it’s still just as impressive as it takes a lot of patience and perseverance to farm them since you eventually start getting a lot of duplicates towards the end.

 

[Corrie]

I planned to not until I began moving villagers houses. I don't have enough patience for that lol