TBT allows people who don't necessarily know how to obtain such insanely huge amounts of NMT to still trade quite successfully. There's nowhere else that I can trade because of how ruined the "economy" is with NMT due to the duping issue. I don't want to pay 100 NMT for a grand piano. I would have to work all day (literally, the entire day) to get that amount of NMT to begin with, and I don't have that type of energy or time to spare. I really appreciate the forum's currency because it doesn't seem to be as susceptible to inflation since you can't dupe it. It's much easier to earn it and usually it builds up without me having to actively make it.
How do you feel about the TBT Currency and the impact with the ACNH game experience?
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I voted mildly positive cause I think it has a good use; if you use this forum a lot you can probably get trades quite quickly. However, I think the pricing is a bit off. If most people are doing 1 NMT = 1 TBT and that is the widely accepted value, then cataloging entire sets for 30 TBT means you are asking the equivalent of 30 NMT just to catalog one set. That's a bit extreme for cataloging IMO.
There are essentially four venues in which I trade - TBT forums (the vast majority), private Discords (a small amount), Nookazon (a very small amount), or personal friends (a small amount). I have never had a trade problem here. I have on Nookazon and Discord.
I think TBTs as currency are great! I enjoy using these forums, and not only am I rewarded for it with community and useful information, but also with in-game buying power. There's no downside for me. I had no concept of using TBT as currency for trade until I'd already been here a couple months and had unknowingly accumulated hundreds.
Through play, I accumulate IGB to pay for infrastructure in-game, increasing my catalog in-game, helping friends that are low on cash, and occasionally as part or all of a trade.
Through play, I accumulate NMT which are sometimes fun and/or handy for a number of in-game reasons, and I'm still regularly able to use them as part of all of a trade.
I don't mind at all that TBT is my most valuable currency when it comes to trading, because I would be on these forums engaging regardless of them, just like I enjoy accumulating IGB and NMT because I love playing ACNH. TBT is the cherry on top for me. It's like getting paid to eat ice cream or watch my favorite movie.
I think TBTs as currency are great! I enjoy using these forums, and not only am I rewarded for it with community and useful information, but also with in-game buying power. There's no downside for me. I had no concept of using TBT as currency for trade until I'd already been here a couple months and had unknowingly accumulated hundreds.
Through play, I accumulate IGB to pay for infrastructure in-game, increasing my catalog in-game, helping friends that are low on cash, and occasionally as part or all of a trade.
Through play, I accumulate NMT which are sometimes fun and/or handy for a number of in-game reasons, and I'm still regularly able to use them as part of all of a trade.
I don't mind at all that TBT is my most valuable currency when it comes to trading, because I would be on these forums engaging regardless of them, just like I enjoy accumulating IGB and NMT because I love playing ACNH. TBT is the cherry on top for me. It's like getting paid to eat ice cream or watch my favorite movie.
FireNinja1
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There's a bunch of posts that I want to respond to, but it's getting quite late here, so I will leave that for another time.
I think that overall, TBT is good for trading. To be fair, there are some downsides, which I might cover in a later post but will save for now. But I think there's a couple of underrated advantages of using TBT as a currency:
1. The risk of being scammed drops dramatically whenever TBT is involved. To be clear, the risk of being scammed in the first place is already extremely low on TBT. The feedback system is widely used and accepted by most people who trade on this site, which means that anyone who comes to this forum wanting to scam people are either deterred from carrying out such activities because of the presence of this accepted system, or find themselves rapidly shunned by the community at large for making repeated scam attempts.
However, if you ask a buyer to pay in TBT for in-game items in advance, you've received your payment before they have even reached your island. You don't have to worry about someone taking your items and attempting to run without paying. Additionally, most people who pay in TBT usually have at least a couple of feedback ratings before they start paying in TBT (i.e. people have to have some amount of activity on the forum before they are able to pay others in TBT), dropping the risk of being scammed even further.
2. Since you don't have to worry about people dropping payment, you can literally AFK while people pick up their items. One of the biggest gripes I had while trading in New Leaf was that I would open my gates (or whatever the equivalent was in NL, it's been five years lol), and people wouldn't come for 20 or 30 minutes. Since those trades usually involved IGB, I would have to check constantly whether or not someone had arrived. With TBT, you can just fence in your airport, drop the items, and let people come and go on their own time. Takes a huge amount of stress off of you as a seller, and it makes it so you don't feel like you're waiting for a long time for a buyer to come to your island.
I think that overall, TBT is good for trading. To be fair, there are some downsides, which I might cover in a later post but will save for now. But I think there's a couple of underrated advantages of using TBT as a currency:
1. The risk of being scammed drops dramatically whenever TBT is involved. To be clear, the risk of being scammed in the first place is already extremely low on TBT. The feedback system is widely used and accepted by most people who trade on this site, which means that anyone who comes to this forum wanting to scam people are either deterred from carrying out such activities because of the presence of this accepted system, or find themselves rapidly shunned by the community at large for making repeated scam attempts.
However, if you ask a buyer to pay in TBT for in-game items in advance, you've received your payment before they have even reached your island. You don't have to worry about someone taking your items and attempting to run without paying. Additionally, most people who pay in TBT usually have at least a couple of feedback ratings before they start paying in TBT (i.e. people have to have some amount of activity on the forum before they are able to pay others in TBT), dropping the risk of being scammed even further.
2. Since you don't have to worry about people dropping payment, you can literally AFK while people pick up their items. One of the biggest gripes I had while trading in New Leaf was that I would open my gates (or whatever the equivalent was in NL, it's been five years lol), and people wouldn't come for 20 or 30 minutes. Since those trades usually involved IGB, I would have to check constantly whether or not someone had arrived. With TBT, you can just fence in your airport, drop the items, and let people come and go on their own time. Takes a huge amount of stress off of you as a seller, and it makes it so you don't feel like you're waiting for a long time for a buyer to come to your island.
it's much too early for me to read the more lengthy posts so if this is repeating what someone's already said, just take it as me vouching for them.
i think a big issue is that people are looking at tbt-only shops as a comparison to nmt shops when really that shouldn't be the case, they're two separate markets entirely. if someone has a tbt-only shop, they probably aren't interested in nmt and therefore aren't taking into account the tbt:nmt rate, and nor should they be expected to since nmt are completely useless to them.
in the tbt market, anything sub 100 tbt bells is essentially nothing - collectibles in this price range are often given away for free instead of making any attempt to sell them. you can make a maximum of 10 tbt for a single post, and that's easily achievable in any animal crossing related board since they reward more bells per post. three chunky paragraphs can net you 30 tbt in just a few minutes, so calling these prices and those similar unfair because of the nmt rate just doesn't make sense, and isn't an equal comparison at all. it'd be better to just see the two currencies completely apart from each other since one is much more easily naturally obtainable while the other has the issue of duping/hacking.
and just to reinforce this and for those who might be curious, this post alone net me 10 tbt.
i think a big issue is that people are looking at tbt-only shops as a comparison to nmt shops when really that shouldn't be the case, they're two separate markets entirely. if someone has a tbt-only shop, they probably aren't interested in nmt and therefore aren't taking into account the tbt:nmt rate, and nor should they be expected to since nmt are completely useless to them.
in the tbt market, anything sub 100 tbt bells is essentially nothing - collectibles in this price range are often given away for free instead of making any attempt to sell them. you can make a maximum of 10 tbt for a single post, and that's easily achievable in any animal crossing related board since they reward more bells per post. three chunky paragraphs can net you 30 tbt in just a few minutes, so calling these prices and those similar unfair because of the nmt rate just doesn't make sense, and isn't an equal comparison at all. it'd be better to just see the two currencies completely apart from each other since one is much more easily naturally obtainable while the other has the issue of duping/hacking.
and just to reinforce this and for those who might be curious, this post alone net me 10 tbt.
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I like TBT. I honestly don't use ingame NMT or IGB at all. and I don't see the value of either other than the value people seem to give them arbitrarily based on the experience of the first weeks of playing the game. but after you got the villagers you want, all you would use them for is to trade them to other players in exchange for stuff. and they probably use it for the same thing. an economy like that based on nothing will collapse at some point as there is no limit on the amount of NMTs in existence.
TBT is different from that. it has value outside the game and I think it works better as currency. also it can actually be regulated by this site's admins if they really wanted too. also, if you use them you know you're dealing with people that you can trust as they wouldn't have access to TBT otherwise. lastly, you require TBT by being helpful and active in the community. it isn't really something you can "farm" but it's nice to acquire it over time without having to spend too much effort other than being here.
So yeah, i think TBT is an overall positive thing and I like trading with TBT a lot more than trading with anything else
TBT is different from that. it has value outside the game and I think it works better as currency. also it can actually be regulated by this site's admins if they really wanted too. also, if you use them you know you're dealing with people that you can trust as they wouldn't have access to TBT otherwise. lastly, you require TBT by being helpful and active in the community. it isn't really something you can "farm" but it's nice to acquire it over time without having to spend too much effort other than being here.
So yeah, i think TBT is an overall positive thing and I like trading with TBT a lot more than trading with anything else
When I started participating in the discussion board here in the forum, getting TBT became fairly easy and effortless. I don't care for collectibles so I buy mainly art, NMTs for island hopping or nookazon trading, have bought many DIYs, catalog trades, and IGB so I didn't need to bother with turnips in the past, etc. I have only sold a few spare things but i don't do a shop. Also out in Instagram we see so many people paying rlc for stuff, or trying so hard to find trades, and here it is extremely easy.
So... I can buy many things I need from chatting about a game I like, helping people and asking questions, for me it's a win/win situation
So... I can buy many things I need from chatting about a game I like, helping people and asking questions, for me it's a win/win situation
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Can I ask you where can I commission art for tbt here? Very interested!
niko@kamogawa
I am hungry for storage space!
DeltaLoraine
Alwin from Riverstone
Honestly, I picked undecided because I wasn't a member on this site here before ACNH came out. I've found it's fairly easy to earn tbt by just commenting and being active on here, which is easy because everyone else is pretty active as well. But then again, I don't buy really expensive things and often just do giveaways with people, so I'm not really in the know about the severity of change in the market.
rubyrubert
Audie's Simp
Honestly, I don’t really even know what TBT is completely besides the currency here ppl use to buy little icons. I always use NMTs while trading, but maybe I should try out using TBT in order to get stuff lol
sarosephie
Senior Member
I find TBT more useful honestly. Looking at nookazon, prices are horribly inflated and it kinda sucks that people are charging 50k for a flimsy rod. TBT I feel helps facilitate easier trading.
I really like the 1:1 ratio because I feel like it's justified in the amount of posting you do vs time to earn an nmt. If not, NMTs should be held at a higher regard BECAUSE of the time commitment. Anyone can just post anything and earn bells for it.
You have to put in a good 3-5 minutes on ONE ticket if you're starting at 0 Nook miles anyways.
I really like the 1:1 ratio because I feel like it's justified in the amount of posting you do vs time to earn an nmt. If not, NMTs should be held at a higher regard BECAUSE of the time commitment. Anyone can just post anything and earn bells for it.
You have to put in a good 3-5 minutes on ONE ticket if you're starting at 0 Nook miles anyways.
TheodoreCottontail
hop along
In the General Discussion section of this forum there's the Museum. In the Museum section there's a further sub category called Museum Shop. Hope you can easily find it!
FireNinja1
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I think the big thing to note here is that the overall supply of TBT grows at a much slower rate than, say, the rate of NMTs / IGBs being traded around, since there's more sites that by definition don't have TBT / exclusively use TBT / NMT. It's not a question of whether a pool of something is finite or not (the supply of all currencies are constantly increasing), but how fast those currency supplies are increasing.
I don't do seasonal DIYs, but I have friends who leave the game on while waiting for balloons to fly over their town. Redd art can be rapidly obtained if you're willing to time-travel. You can also rapidly create a huge supply of IGB by selling turnips, and then trading for those items. Most people who have hundreds of NMT (including myself) do not actually spend all day farming them; they're usually traded for in exchange for some other good or service.
On one hand, I do agree with this point to some extent. I can see how seeing a bunch of TBT only shops might be discouraging to a newbie. But BalloonFight raises a strong point: if there are so many TBT-only shops, then that drives competition to make even better for buyers.
wanderlust//
chronic idiocy | yeonjun hand holder
yeah, I agree with the ratio thing. seems crazy to me because if people aren’t in great need of NMT anymore, you’d think they’d want to get rid of it faster. i don’t know lol, that’s how i’d do it anyway,
sleepydreepy
legendary egg
Due to recent events I have been pretty active on this forum and thus have found it very easy to acquire tbt. Personally I am no longer interested in buying forum collectables and only use tbt to buy in game items in ACNH. As someone who doesn't like to farm for materials, TT for items, or participate in the stock market every week, tbt has been an amazing form of currency for me. I don't have a crazy amount of IGB stored up nor do I have many miles after my last villager hunt, so if it wasn't for tbt I flat out wouldn't be able to afford most of the stuff being sold online.
I like having TBT as a currency, but think some of the TBT to NMT conversions are a bit steep. I appreciated having my TBTs to spend when I wasn't participating in the turnip exchange because I didn't have too many IGBs to negotiate with. NMTs just take way too long to print out and also take up a lot of inventory space so I end up using TBTs. That way I don't have to waste time printing 50+ tickets just to catalog full sets/ buy art...
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