Help! Urgent time-travel questions!

[Stargirl]

So, I'd read before in another thread that when you time travel, the game finds some minor way to "punish" you. I want to know if these are "punishments", or just regular glitches!

So, one of the villagers in my town, Frita, lived by the river. It was about June 22 or 23 in my game. I travelled back in time, to about June 19. When I started up my game, Isabelle said that someone new had moved to town. This was confusing, since I had 9 villagers and no campsite in my town. But, when I started up the game, I checked my villager list, and Frita's name had been replaced with Tammi's. Tammi's house was in the exact same spot as Frita's had been, too! And Frita never told me she was moving out, and I never got a goodbye letter...? Is this a glitch, or a "punishment"?

Also, I haven't unlocked the Dream Suite yet. I went back in time to the date that's exactly 1 week after my development plan was approved, and Isabelle hasn't been sleeping at her desk! Do I need to build a community project, then fast forward 7 days? (I haven't built any projects yet). Or has time travelling prevented me from getting it? Help! If I can't unlock the dream suite, I may restart my town. But I really don't want to, I spent almost 2 hrs resetting for the one I have!

 

[pocky]

I time travel back in time all of the time and none of my villagers have ever moved out :0 I was also able to unlock the Dream Suite despite of my time traveling D:

QUESTION: Do you time travel by changing the date at the DS clock, or with Isabelle when you start the game?

 

[Aurora]

Time travel using the 3DS settings because otherwise things can get messy...

 

[maarowak]

It's weird you never got a goodbye letter, but when you move back a few days, they count it as days that passed up, so she moved out and another villager showed up.

You have to connect to the Internet with the game at least once to get the Dream Suite. TTing does not make PWPs not show up.

The only ways the games really punishes you is for turnips, because then it would be really easy to cheat on the stalk market. Besides that, the effects are the same to you not playing for certain period of time (the period that you TTed, specifically)

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People are all "ooooh, TT is baaaaad" but really, relax. Did she say to you she was moving out? Perhaps she was already set to move out but you didn't trigger the conversation (it happened with me for Tipper, a villager told me she was moving out before she said it to me). Maybe that's why you didn't get a goodbye letter.

 

[Beanie]

Oh so turning back time affects villagers too? I didn't know that! I would TT a few days but always go back to the real date and time before I sleep.

 

[Superpenguin]

Dream Suite Unlock: 1 Week after First PWP.

 

[bittermeat]

Punishments? Haha. There's downfalls, but it definitely is not a crime.

If you value your villagers, make sure you talk to them once each day your time travel, so they don't move. If you time travel more than one day (like a week), there's a chance one of your villagers move out.

Right now, I'm purposely time traveling months ahead so all my concurring villagers could leave. They're lame.

 

[Stargirl]

I time travel back in time all of the time and none of my villagers have ever moved out :0 I was also able to unlock the Dream Suite despite of my time traveling D:

QUESTION: Do you time travel by changing the date at the DS clock, or with Isabelle when you start the game?

Thank you, now I know that I can still unlock the Dream Suite. ^.^

And I TT when I talk to Isabelle when I start the game.

Time travel using the 3DS settings because otherwise things can get messy...

Really? I've been TT'ing through Isabelle and everything's fine so far, other than the thing with Frita. I've even had some new hybrid flowers pop up!

Dream Suite Unlock: 1 Week after First PWP.

THANK YOU!!

 

[jakeypride]

I just recently restarted and wanted to start BRAND NEW. So i restet my DS clock back to release date and time travled day by day. Honestly.... best idea ever... but very time consuming. only do it IF you can NOT stand your town.

 

[insaneluzer]

Does time traveling back really count as going forward to that day? Maybe I should stop time traveling back to the actual day it is every time I go forward then...