How do you feel about the TBT Currency and the impact with the ACNH game experience?
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SpaceTokki77
not very active
It needs to be easier to get TBT
Skandranon
Senior Member
I mainly mine tbt cause its the only thing people seem to accept for real art and i want to finish my museum
daffodilcrossing
Traveling Seashell Seller
I totally agree about all of the items people are farming. I guess because of quarantine and such people have a lot more time and if you’re focusing on getting certain things you could take a couple of days and just do that. TTing too much stressed me out though so I wouldn’t be able to do that. As for TBT currency I don’t mind it, it gives me a way to gets items that can be hard to find without wasting all of my NMT and igb. Especially because in this game it just seems so much harder to get items, mostly because DIYs are hard to find and the furniture from recipes constitutes about half of the furniture on my island. Like other people have said it’s a lot quicker to get TBT than NMT, especially because NMT can be used for actual things like mystery island tours and tbt is really just a currency
It's already pretty easy, isn't it?
I mean, just by posting on here we earn them.
I wanted to buy a piece of art that someone was selling but I was short by 20 TBTs. A few minutes later, just by posting about the game on here, I had the TBTs I needed!
LilBabyDelirium
Fairy Godmother/Partially Obscured Floaty Thing
For me personally, I think it has enhanced my experience because it's a currency that can't really be manipulated unfairly and (at first) it was something I didn't mind spending (until I got my eye on a couple of collectibles I really want).
In the game itself, I do not time travel on my main account because I want to experience the seasons as they come, along with the activities that accompany those seasons. On my second account and Switch, I farm the things I don't have access to on my regular account and sell off whatever extras I may end up with for those who don't time travel or are unable to get those items themselves. Accepting multiple forms of currency allows the players to pay in the ways they are able and keeping my prices fairly low allows them to get those items at a reasonable price.
Meanwhile, if I'm saving up my forum bells for a collectible, I can sell off NMT I'm not using. There are a lot of players who don't care about or even use their TBT except to buy in-game items, and essentially they feel like they're getting an item for "free" (as I did before I even knew or cared about collectibles). I feel like everyone wins.
In the game itself, I do not time travel on my main account because I want to experience the seasons as they come, along with the activities that accompany those seasons. On my second account and Switch, I farm the things I don't have access to on my regular account and sell off whatever extras I may end up with for those who don't time travel or are unable to get those items themselves. Accepting multiple forms of currency allows the players to pay in the ways they are able and keeping my prices fairly low allows them to get those items at a reasonable price.
Meanwhile, if I'm saving up my forum bells for a collectible, I can sell off NMT I'm not using. There are a lot of players who don't care about or even use their TBT except to buy in-game items, and essentially they feel like they're getting an item for "free" (as I did before I even knew or cared about collectibles). I feel like everyone wins.
Meanwhile, if I'm saving up my forum bells for a collectible, I can sell off NMT I'm not using. There are a lot of players who don't care about or even use their TBT except to buy in-game items, and essentially they feel like they're getting an item for "free" (as I did before I even knew or cared about collectibles). I feel like everyone wins.
I quoted these posts due to the repeating theme of TBT being equivalent to gaining free items in ACNH. I understand the idea, but I disagree with the argument. TBT is not free, unless given away by the forum requiring no action. I remember a 100 TBT giveaway you could earn by filling out a survey. Still cost you time, even if the survey only took 60 seconds.
You still have to spend your time doing an action to gain TBT. Whether from posting or trading for TBT. People do the same for IGB and NMT. They take the time, to acquire the currency. I think people just confuse TBT being free because this requires less effort compared to the other currencies, and this is only true if you participate in this forum at a minimum. As others have said previously, TBT is easy for those who actively post, but not everyone does.
LilBabyDelirium
Fairy Godmother/Partially Obscured Floaty Thing
I get where you're coming from! I think that was my perception starting out because all I needed to do was be active on here, and I wasn't using it for anything else. Nowadays, that's definitely not how I feel. A) I value this forum SO MUCH and I'm trying to be more a part of it by joining in raffles and activities, and buying collectibles and; B) COLLECTIBLES! Lol
Le Ham
now please I will accept the money-payment
I'm one of those frequent posters who doesn't really do collectibles, and I think it's a lot more convenient than using NMT or IGB for me because my only interaction with the AC community is on this forum. I haven't really done much turnips outside of my irl friend circle that plays it, even less recently because only a few of us have kept playing regularly. So normally I'm short on igb and I don't exactly grind for miles so I don't do much with NMT. Also don't have dreamies I'd use them to hunt for, much easier to buy them off people.
But I will say my tendency to practically throw my TBT at people has caused a slightly negative event in my game - I decided to buy 10 million IGB with my TBT, not thinking the result would be that I stop doing a lot of activities like fishing and harvesting fruit because I stopped needing to. So it's dulled out my game. I hope to drain the money fast so I feel like I have an incentive to actually play the game again.
But I will say my tendency to practically throw my TBT at people has caused a slightly negative event in my game - I decided to buy 10 million IGB with my TBT, not thinking the result would be that I stop doing a lot of activities like fishing and harvesting fruit because I stopped needing to. So it's dulled out my game. I hope to drain the money fast so I feel like I have an incentive to actually play the game again.
It's actually a really baffling unknown for me overall. I made my account in the New Leaf days in the hopes of figuring out how to get back 1-2 precious villagers that had moved out ;-; and so I randomly had like 1000ish tbt on my account to start with (edit: when I came back for NH)? I always figured it'd probably be like 'free fun money' for NH and I'd go through it faster than posting would bump it XD but I was ok with that and I just tried to only buy stuff I was super excited about. It's a game. I have a real job where I have to earn $ and decide how to actually spend those on fun stuff too so I was like pfft let's just not get too wrapped up in AC currency, right?
Prob the upshot there is I have A LOT of nmt for if I get too low on tbt XDDD I just don't really need to cash it in much??? So my points there keep stacking! Basically I feel pretty stable and like maybe I can't just buy EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE all at once or anything but I can make the impulse buys in AC that I can't in real life right now and mannnn do I appreciate the relaxy outlet. <3
Prob the upshot there is I have A LOT of nmt for if I get too low on tbt XDDD I just don't really need to cash it in much??? So my points there keep stacking! Basically I feel pretty stable and like maybe I can't just buy EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE all at once or anything but I can make the impulse buys in AC that I can't in real life right now and mannnn do I appreciate the relaxy outlet. <3
ok, I have to ask. what do you do to be able to get 2000 nookmiles in only 5 minutes O_O
For me, I think TBT has an overall positive impact on my ACNH experience.
It’s pretty handy because it can be used instead of nmts/igbs (there’s no more need to withdraw so much bells or print a load of nmts which takes a lot of button smashing lol) and in a way might be better than the in game currencies because they can’t be duped or manipulated.
If you’re active in the forums and post and interact with others a lot (or even if you just do a lot of trading and post/comment on nooks cranny threads), it’s easy to earn the forum currency.
It does suck sometimes though that TBT rates for whatever the current new/trending items (used to be redd art but now it’s pirate/mermaid stuff) are steep but it’s understandable as those are hot items and a lot of people want them so I’m not complaining.
It’s pretty handy because it can be used instead of nmts/igbs (there’s no more need to withdraw so much bells or print a load of nmts which takes a lot of button smashing lol) and in a way might be better than the in game currencies because they can’t be duped or manipulated.
If you’re active in the forums and post and interact with others a lot (or even if you just do a lot of trading and post/comment on nooks cranny threads), it’s easy to earn the forum currency.
It does suck sometimes though that TBT rates for whatever the current new/trending items (used to be redd art but now it’s pirate/mermaid stuff) are steep but it’s understandable as those are hot items and a lot of people want them so I’m not complaining.
if it were, TBT prices would go up and in the end you would need more to get the same thing.
Basically the only thing that would accomplish is making people who have a lot of TBT unhappy because you just devalued their collection
Inflation is generally not a good thing
LilBabyDelirium
Fairy Godmother/Partially Obscured Floaty Thing
I feel like it's very easy to get TBT. Like, check that out, I just earned one and all I had to do was respond!
sarosephie
Senior Member
Honestly a bum rush of dailies!
This. If you're not averse to TTing, you can amass a fortune of nookmiles by doing easy x5 and x2 dailies.
the worst part is giving yourself rsi printing 100k nook miles
applesauc3
Sarah from Banana
Honestly my perspective was initially that tbt is great, because I naturally post a lot on this forum and I was genuinely enjoying essentially being able to cash in my time on the forum for in-game materials, bells, or tickets... but reading your analysis made me wondering where the line is between exchanging in game things for real monetary currency versus forum currency. Don’t get me wrong, this is not meant to come across as critical, because as I’ve said I’ve been taking advantage and fully enjoying using TBT, but could this be something that treads the line of morally wrong because it’s essentially also selling or buying in-game things with non-in game currencies? I’m not sure I have the answer! You’ve opened up an interesting debate!
LilBabyDelirium
Fairy Godmother/Partially Obscured Floaty Thing
I have never used a duping glitch myself, it's just literally hours and hours of farming. That's why the prices for some items can end up being so high-- it actually takes the time to get those items. For instance, people farming Gulliver/Gullivarr-- you have to complete the task of digging/diving for every profile, every day, back and forth for HOURS which quickly adds up to DAYS.
An example. I was working on farming Flick to get all the butterflies I have strewn around my island. The fact remains that I still had to catch three of each bug in the first place; then spend the massive amount of time it takes to jump back and forth while saving, find him again on my island, make the commission, save, change the time code, load, save, change time code, load, find him again AD NAUSEAM. Just to get ONE bug model can take upwards of ten minutes before you're onto the next. It took me three days of game play to get about 60 models.
It's tedious. It's time consuming. It's really a headache.... but I love it! Lol
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