Is buying turnips on other people's islands for higher considered cheating?

[Sudsofsplash]

If you dont like it then dont do it.
But dont decide what OTHER people should and shouldn't do.

This isn't a moral dilemma, this is Animal Crossing we're talking about. If a person has their turnips at 500+ whether through TT or naturally and allow people online to sell their turnips there...That's what they wanna do, you don't have to even be like "Well I THINK ITS CHEATING!!!!" Yeah, you can think that I guess, but like why does it matter to what other people do? Especially when that doesn't even affect you since...well you - I assume - don't sell your turnips at strangers places.

It is in no way cheating as it is an intended feature in the game, but it isn't something you're forced to do.

In New Leaf I didn't touch the Stalk Market because I never had good prices, I didn't have friends with ACNL, and I just felt like it was too much work to find someone online with good prices.

I feel like this thread is utterly pointless honestly. It's up to opinion but everyone CAN play and DO whatever they want in their game, and whether its "cheating" or not doesn't matter LOL

The only time I think any form of "cheating" is bad is when it's something like purchasing NMT for real money or hacking the game to get more IGB or NMT. That's something that I would consider immoral or cheating. But honestly, it's up to the player to either have a more customized experience or experience with real time or with friends and family only.

Honestly this thread just seems like total bait for "arguments". There's no reason to ask the question, because in the end the way you play the game is not dictated by other people but YOU.

 

[cloudmask]

it's not cheating, nintendo encourages visiting other islands. if it were cheating then you wouldnt be allowed to buy/sell on other players islands, and hackers would be finding a workaround for it. if it's an intended game mechanic, it's not cheating.

 

[astoria]

I’m just tired of people acting “holier than thou” in an animal crossing game, some people have turned this relaxing game into a competition

 

[Zura]

Someone was telling me that you couldn't time travel for good prices Anyways, going over peoples town to sell turnips is how the game was meant to be played. Now if you're TTing for good prices then that sure as Hell IS cheating! It gets a little iffy when you consider selling to TTed prices, especially if you have no way of knowing. All those horrible people charging visitors 50NMT and 500k each entry because they did SOOO MUCH WORK by changing their system clock is eeeehh terrible to say the least.

This is gonna be my only comment because it's so bothersome explaining the word cheat/exploits to people over and over again.

 

[antony492]

Been wrestling with this question myself. Going to a friends island, that is people you know and keeping track of their prices is one thing. But just sitting on an exchange where it is likely a few people are going to have good prices, is just against the spirit of the game.

Someone mentioned how the stalk market is a gamble. Where is the gamble if you are always going to get the best prices just sitting on the exchange. Anyone can do that!

 

[Manon_Despoina]

I don't consider selling on another person's island cheating, it is part of the game and everyone can play however they want. How you want to play the game is entirely up to you, but there is no need to call other gaming styles cheating (not directed at you ) - it is just another style of playing. So yeah, if your playing style does not allow for selling on other islands, that is perfectly okay! I just don't really like the cheating or not cheating discourse (or 'spirit of the game' discourse) we have going on: it is utterly pointless in a game like Animal Crossing, since the game itself allows for all these different play styles. Everyone decides what the spirit of the game is by themselves.

For me, I have decided I want to take my game slow. The last two weeks I have participated in turnip trading on islands with high spikes, but I have decided for myself I do not want to buy and sell more than one inventory batch. That way, needing Bells will not be a problem while I also don't have too many (meaning I am not set for life in this game).

 

[UglyMonsterFace]

I was originally against selling turnips on other islands (I had a self imposed rule that I can only earn bells by working for it via bug hunting/ fishing, selling in my own town). I don't see it as cheating however, and would never judge someone for doing it. Anyway, I was perfectly content at first making tarantula islands every night, but I was starting to not enjoy it. But the grind was okay at first. A little bit of annoying tedium to offset what I was enjoying the rest of the time with the game. Then the water bugs showed up and that was so much worse for me. So not only do I have to shop down trees, dig holes, pick flowers, just to set up the island. Now I had to catch every single water bug just to get rid of it. It was frustrating and after a few days of that, I decided that I'd rather enjoy my game than follow my self imposed rule. So I sold some turnips on someone else's island. And it was great! No stress, and I can quickly go back to enjoying my game because it doesn't take nearly 2 hours to do it, like tarantula hunting did.

I think it's okay to follow self imposed rules and to consider certain things "cheating" for your play style. For example, I refuse to catch fish or bugs on other islands, and I have to complete my fossil exhibit with only fossils I dig up in my town. Doing otherwise would be cheating for my play style. But it definitely isn't cheating for a lot of people! That's how I see things.

How much bells someone has in their game has no effect on me whatsoever, so I'm happy to let them play their way ^_^

 

[greenvoldemort]

No way in hell!!!! in any means, i think its being encouraged by nintendo as it encourages people to buy nintendo online if anything! so dont feel like a cheater for using turnip exchange.. although if anything you should feel cheated, because wheew! those entry prices break my bank sometimes :’( !!

 

[niko@kamogawa]

This is always a subject of debate for several years now. (That also includes time traveling.) My definition of cheating depends on how the developers designed the game. Obviously, if it's something that they didn't intend to design, they would patch the game. (Hence, we have those fixes about players exploiting bugs. People who exploit those are cheating.)

Secondly, Nintendo is nice enough not to police the game. You can imagine some other games require an Internet connection before you can even play offline just to prevent any form of cheating. (I am glad they didn't go that route.)