Do you guys use time travel alot?

[Primeval]

do you use time travel frequently? i know some tt one day to progress through the game. or to get villagers to move out/move in but yea i was just curious

 

[Bluebellie]

All the time. I tt to shop, I tt to refurbish, I tt to catch bugs or fish, when I get bored, when I need to move in a villager. I’m a full blown tt-er.
I slightly also get insulted when the villagers point it out
Can’t blame them though.

 

[MapleSilver]

I almost never time travel. I find that when I play the game without it, I experience a lot less burnout. In my opinion, playing with TT is fun at first, but gets boring fairly quick. It also helps my town feel a lot more real, since it experiences time in the same way I do.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

I usually time travel when it's been a while since I played and I don't want to mess up the current state of the game (for instance if I don't want any villagers to move out), but other than that I leave the clock alone.

I used to time travel all the time, but it takes the fun and patience out of playing a great, surreal life simulator.

 

[MeeGeeBee]

I used to tt a lot because I had tons of free time and I had nothing else to do but now I only use it when it's late at night and I want to be able to buy and sell things in the stores.

 

[glasspandabear]

The main reason I time travel is when I'm doing the villager reset trick to get dreamies that I want. Once I actually start up my town, I do it a lot less frequently.

 

[HistoryH22]

I haven't time traveled yet, nor do I intend to. Knowing me I'd screw something up and lose a villager I love.

 

[Primeval]

The main reason I time travel is when I'm doing the villager reset trick to get dreamies that I want. Once I actually start up my town, I do it a lot less frequently.

is the villager reset trick easy to do? how do you know if a villager is moving in? if you load in and see a plot of land wont it have already saved?

 

[Alexis]

NEVER unless I need to villager reset or get limited furniture items (only did this for the harvest series).

 

[mayorlinds]

i try not to just because it takes away from the experience, but occasionally i do. usually i will if i've missed a special event or if it's just been a while, since unfortunately i can't play as much as i used to since i'm busy at school. but a little bit now and then is fine for me

 

[Stella-Io]

All the time. I'll go throu a week in 4 or 5 continuous hours.

I mainly do it cause I got bored with the day and want to start the next day, esp if I'm landscaping my towns.

 

[LadyDestani]

is the villager reset trick easy to do? how do you know if a villager is moving in? if you load in and see a plot of land wont it have already saved?

If you know or suspect a new villager will be moving in, either because you invited one or you're below nine villagers or something like that, you log in with a new save file and run around your town looking for their plot. As long as you don't save as the new character or log in with an already existing character, you can keep resetting until you get a villager you want (if it's a random move-in) or their plot is in a spot that you like. Once you like the way everything is, you continue the process of setting up the new character by having Nook place their house and getting your TPC from Isabelle so the game saves. Then, you can delete the new character and log in with your existing characters.

I pretty much never time travel. I do keep my time set permanently 3 hours behind my real time so that I don't have to worry about shops closing before I get a chance to play. I mostly play at night so if I played real time, I'd never get to do anything. I will also occasionally move the time forwards or backwards so that I can catch a particular bug or fish or so that I don't miss an event.

But I don't skip days or jump forward or backwards at all. I play each day as it is in real life. The game is just more fun for me that way and I don't have to worry about making a mistake and losing my villagers.

 

[RedTropicalPeachyFish]

I like playing without time travelling. It gives me more fun. But.. as I like trading too, need to do for that purpose, and sometimes for villagers thing as well. Fortunately I got a lot of towns when my friends stopped playing. So, I have towns where I time travel and the towns I don't.

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

I like playing without time travelling. It gives me more fun. But.. as I like trading too, need to do for that purpose, and sometimes for villagers thing as well. Fortunately I got a lot of towns when my friends stopped playing. So, I have towns where I time travel and the towns I don't.

So 6 other people got bored and gave you their games?

 

[mellachime]

I kinda do....a lot...oops. I'm trying to limit it though. Just right now I'm trying to get in new villagers I want and other I don't want out.

 

[Snowesque]

I only play on days I want to, so yes. I just move a day at a time as I'm trying to catch up to current date.

 

[Primeval]

If you know or suspect a new villager will be moving in, either because you invited one or you're below nine villagers or something like that, you log in with a new save file and run around your town looking for their plot. As long as you don't save as the new character or log in with an already existing character, you can keep resetting until you get a villager you want (if it's a random move-in) or their plot is in a spot that you like. Once you like the way everything is, you continue the process of setting up the new character by having Nook place their house and getting your TPC from Isabelle so the game saves. Then, you can delete the new character and log in with your existing characters.

I pretty much never time travel. I do keep my time set permanently 3 hours behind my real time so that I don't have to worry about shops closing before I get a chance to play. I mostly play at night so if I played real time, I'd never get to do anything. I will also occasionally move the time forwards or backwards so that I can catch a particular bug or fish or so that I don't miss an event.

But I don't skip days or jump forward or backwards at all. I play each day as it is in real life. The game is just more fun for me that way and I don't have to worry about making a mistake and losing my villagers.

if you load in with your main character by accident and find the signpost of a new villager, can you rewind a day back?

 

[Garrett]

No, I don't TT. For me, one of the unique selling points of Animal Crossing is that it takes place in real time with changing seasons.

I don't care if other people TT though, not my problem.

 

[squidpops]

I rarely do it anymore, I don't want to risk my villagers moving unexpectedly or anything. The only time I do it is traveling a few hours back in the same day if I didn't get to play at an earlier time and want to hit up the shops.

 

[LadyDestani]

if you load in with your main character by accident and find the signpost of a new villager, can you rewind a day back?

Unfortunately, no. Once you've logged in with your main character, Isabelle saves during the opening and the plot is permanent. No amount of time traveling can fix it.