Cheating in animal crossing new horizons

[Capella]

People are buying raymond for 2000 tickets..... how is that fair? How am i supposed to get 2000 tickets without cheating? Why is this being allowed? There really needs to be regulation on these kinds of things so for people who play the game legitimately such as myself can have a fair chance in obtaining our desired villagers. I've been playing this game since I was a child and I started off on the original one on the gamecube. When I was playing the original crossing on gamecube I didnt get to choose whether I wanted raymond or Audie for 2000 tickets because frankly they didn't quite exist at the moment yet. However, when I got to city folk it was there that I realized the true tribulations and trials that come with the animal crossing economy and stock market. Here I had to learn how to pay off my house and save all my bells and resources to use them effectively If I wanted to have the authetntic animal crossing experience that this game provides. It was after I sold all of my ghroids had I learned the pain that is attatched to these small cute animal game. It broke me having to get rid of my precious gyroids to pay off my debt, had it not been for the bells I would have never even gotten it off . New leaf, however, was where the entire stock market CRASHED, New leaf was the start of the downfall of the animal crossing stock market. It was decided in new leaf that turnips would be more accessible and they would be easier to yield profits from by selling them to the pretty pink alpaca located in the retail store. Had it not been for this lady then the prices of said villagers would not be so inflated and the economy wouldn't be in the state it is today.

Now come New horizons and its virtually impossible to obtain the villagers you want without having to bend your back sell your horse and mortage and donate all your children for! This is dang ridiculous if I had to say something myself and I am hecking tired of it!. The segregation that is being ENABLED by the mods of this site if frankly sickening and the wage gap between an average animal crossing player and someone who has spent years hacking their game needs to be directly closed or the people will continue to suffer under the might of cheaters.

 

[JKDOS]

The mods said they'd "be issuing warnings for any activity deemed suspicious", but I'm guessing 2000 tickets (Which is 4,000,000 miles BTW), or buying 1x NMT for 250K+ IGB is not suspicious enough for them

EIDT: If Nintendo ever releases amiibos for the new characters, I'm sure it will help some of the prices subside

 

[usa-chan]

i do agree that the prices for these two villagers are way out of control, and the mods should look into that, but i do think it's on the sellers themselves for letting it escalate that far and for accepting it. there should be rules and regulations, but since ACNH is so new, i don't think anyone saw this occurring.
but i wouldn't blame reese for the "stock market crash" in NL and NH, there were plenty of ways of getting bells without using the turnips. she's just an animated npc, she can't help what she buys. plus, it's not really cheating to participate in the turnip sales, so i don't understand why she's to blame.

 

[Heartcore]

I understand what you're saying and I think 2000 tickets for a villager is absolutely ridiculous and impossible to obtain without cheating of some kind. I think a big issue with this game and with New Leaf were the duping glitches that kind of destroyed the worth of bells because people had so many of them that they became useless past a certain point. However, I see you mention that you want to be able to get your desired villagers--you do have a chance to get those: through using NMT, the campsite, amiibo, and random move-ins. I think it's kind of silly to be upset that by playing the game naturally you can't keep up with cheaters less than a month since release. There's a lot of hype surrounding the new villagers now but eventually the hype will die down, amiibos will be released, or whatever. Just give it time for the hype to die down or work on collecting resources to hunt for villagers by other means than trading for the time being. Also comparing it to segregation? Girl. Bye.

 

[ayesquiggle]

The mods said they'd "be issuing warnings for any activity deemed suspicious", but I'm guessing 2000 tickets (Which is 4,000,000 miles BTW), or buying 1x NMT for 250K+ IGB is not suspicious enough for them

EIDT: If Nintendo ever releases amiibos for the new characters, I'm sure it will help some of the prices subside

I'm just curious, why is Nook Mile Tickets going for 250k IGB suspicious?

 

[Splinter]

I sold 5 tickets for 1 million bells today, I'm not complaining.

 

[Miss Misty]

The stalk market has been in the game since the beginning. It's not the problem. I mean, yeah the series being taken online and virtually guaranteeing access to large spike towns is a thing now, but it's not like turnips are the only way to make money. It's not like you are in any big rush to pay stuff off. And you can get your dream villagers without paying exorbitant amounts; you can play the game normally and find them eventually. The prices wouldn't exist if enough people weren't demanding instant gratification.

The NMT situation is completely separate from the stalk market. I agree the admins need to start setting a point where a certain amount of NMTs is considered 'suspicious'.

 

[AppleBitterCrumble]

Some people trade rare items/flowers/villagers for reasonable amounts of tickets and those add up over time, yeah 2000 tickets is a little sus but some people really grind this game and make lots of trades with other users.

 

[Sanaki]

Oh my that was a rollercoaster. Although I do agree with 2000 tickets not being suspicious to mods, kinda odd.

 

[Cory]

250k is from what I have seen the standard price for one of these even though getting 1 nook mile ticket is significantly easier than getting 250k bells. I think the problem is how valuable the tickets are in this economy and how they are pretty easy to get. Another thing is that everyone wants them, especially if they are selling a villager and they will have an open plot.

 

[JKDOS]

I'm just curious, why is Nook Mile Tickets going for 250k IGB suspicious?

Have you tried earning 2,000 miles? If so, are you seriously telling me that the time it took to earn 2000 miles was literally worth 250,000 bells? Sorry if it sounds like I am being audacious, I'm not. Just trying to make a point.

The getaway package is worth 5000 miles, and that surely isn't worth 625,000 IGB

 

[Cory]

Have you tried earning 2,000 miles? If so, are you seriously telling me that the time it took to earn 2000 miles was literally worth 250,000 bells? Sorry if it sounds like I am being audacious, but I'm trying to make a point.

The getaway package is worth 5000 miles, and that surely isn't worth 625,000 IGB

The forum will have to adjust to the new form of currency instead of making rules to stifle them.

 

[Fridaynightcatlady]

Wow, I’ve never seen someone buy villagers w 2.000 tickets (the highest bid I’ve seen is 150, which is still an insane amount). I do agree, though, it’s very hard to compete w those people

 

[Heartcore]

Have you tried earning 2,000 miles? If so, are you seriously telling me that the time it took to earn 2000 miles was literally worth 250,000 bells? Sorry if it sounds like I am being audacious, I'm not. Just trying to make a point.

The getaway package is worth 5000 miles, and that surely isn't worth 625,000 IGB

Earning 2000 Nook miles really isn't that difficult imo. Especially with the x 2 + x 5 dailies you get. I can easily go from having 0 nook miles to 10,000 just by playing for a few hours.

 

[ayesquiggle]

Have you tried earning 2,000 miles? If so, are you seriously telling me that the time it took to earn 2000 miles was literally worth 250,000 bells? Sorry if it sounds like I am being audacious, but I'm trying to make a point.

Lol idk why you're getting upset, I'm trying to have a normal discussion lol. I was just curious as to what you meant by suspicious. Like bc people have so many bells from the royal crown glitch and therefore are willing to pay 250k for a ticket?

 

[rezberri]

i dont rly know what the problem with the "economy" in this game is anymore. u seem to think its about bells, but i thought the issue was things being sold for absurd amounts of nook miles tickets?

in regards to bells, i don't understand how u think bells are ruining trading? i thought nook miles tickets were the main source of money for trades, so im just not rly understanding what the issue is. the stalk market does seem to be easier to get into, but i dont think that's something the game did. i think we all kinda grew up in a way and actually learned what we were doing, and since we actually know of places to go to look for good sell prices we're all getting rich. bells are used for a lot of things outside trade in this game (plot relocation, bridge/incline placement, etc.) so i don't really see an issue with trying to get the most u can out of turnips.

in regards to nook miles tickets, sure it sucks that everything's sold for such high amounts of them, but i dont think we can blame people for not wanting to miss out on profits for a villager. we can't always get rid of things for free from the kindness of our hearts. and i dont think i'd call people with large amounts of nmt cheaters either. we dont know how they got the tickets, but i know a fact that trades and such happen all the time outside of this tiny community this forum has. you couldn't even duplicate them anyway, so it's safe to say they came from (mostly) legitimate means. it's easy to get large amounts of nook miles at the beginning of the game when you dont have much to spend them on and are unlocking new achievements left and right, so it's not unreasonable to have a large amount of miles and therefore tickets because we're all kinda there atm.

im not saying that you dont have a right to complain. i also feel like something should be done in regards to pricing and such from mods or even the regular forum users at this point. if people don't already feel like it's ridiculous, then it's safe to say without intervention it will be. i don't really get how time traveling affects resource gain since i don't do it myself (and i don't really want to know), but it is clear that "regular" players are a bit disadvantaged when it comes to these trades. i may hold off on dreamie hunting till im more in the "end game" if prices remain as they are, but bartering should still be fine.

 

[Splinter]

Do people really take 2000+ trips to those boring Islands looking for their favourite villagers? Sounds mind numbing.

 

[Jubby Ducks]

Well it's not hard to build up bells and earn nook miles. Perhaps it may be unfair to those that work harder but TTing is a thing (which still can be time consuming to build up and compete against the market). If the dev team really wanted to prevent it they could have just made it so events happened based on when you start the game and not whether it's Thursday 6:24AM so the new fishing tourney begins. Then when events happen they update it online (like they're doing now) and remove it afterwards. I don't count TTing as cheating at all when they could have prevented it if they made the change.

That's just my opinion and idea though. ;o;
No I don't TT, I play the game regularly and on day-by-day basis to enjoy ACNH fully and appreciate each feature. <3
BUT I can understand that you are frustrated like a ton of other people OP. I am sure I would feel the same way if the villager I want is hard to obtain, but things can be unforgiving especially if its something a lot of people are vying for and super duper popular/blown up.

 

[JKDOS]

Earning 2000 Nook miles really isn't that difficult imo. Especially with the x 2 + x 5 dailies you get. I can easily go from having 0 nook miles to 10,000 just by playing for a few hours.

Right, which is why I suggested 250K IGB was suspicious to me.

 

[Cory]

I think as more people play the game for longer more people will get Raymond and the demand will be less. If it is the same in a month then we can seriously have a discussion about the system.