Stupid turnips!

[thelonewanderer]

Last week I bought 1 million bells worth of turnips and it turn out to be a decreasing pattern, which was something I didn't know existed. Lost half my bells. This week I was too broke and also salty from the loss so I didn't buy any. Today my turnip is worth 471 bells per turnip and have no turnips to sell.

I don't want anything to do with the online stalk market as I feel it completely broken but with the nerf to rare butterflies, Nintendo is literally forcing people who don't have online membership to buy it and hurting those who are playing this game without any type of exploit.

They nerf butterflies, which make the least amount of money but didn't go after the online stalk market, which make far more money than butterfly farming and with far less effort which only suggest Nintendo wants everyone to get an online paid membership.

Since Nintendo is literally screwing over people who are playing this game the way its intended and hitting their pocket where it hurts and not even remotely sticking to their principle. I don't think players should care about what Nintendo say anymore. If anything nerfing spawn rate by 80 to 90% as one of the thread on here pointed out, if anything it making non-tters think about time traveling because those who don't use the stalk market are already making far less but after this nerf, they aren't even remotely in the same stratosphere. Its more of an extinction then a nerf, I haven't seen a nerf this big since League of Legend nerf my beloved Shen who as people know, tanks are usually the ultimate team player.

I'm at a point where I don't care about time travelers anymore. I feel betrayed by Nintendo and this nerf doesn't hurt anyone but solo players like myself. If Nintendo want to lower the playtime of AC, well done. If Nintendo want to force people to get paid online membership, well done.

 

[Loubelle]

I can't speak about the nerf on butterflies, but a decreasing pattern in the stalk market has always existed (at least in new leaf it did, idk about previous games), but that's part of the stalk (stock) market: high risk, high reward, or high loss. With that being said, having online membership makes it so that if you have a decreasing pattern, you can sell in another person's town. I'm sorry you lost so much money :c

 

[JKDOS]

Today my turnip is worth 471 bells per turnip and have no turnips to sell.

Is that the PM price? If so, let me over your town to sell and I'll tip you 99k

When your prices are low, never sell out, find someone online like I am doing now.

NVM. Seems you may not have Nintendo Online :/

 

[Sudsofsplash]

i never sold or purchased turnips in NL for this very reason. Too much risk if you don't go online seeking turnip spikes.
You can still make bells by fishing and still with butterflies farming (even though they were nerfed, they do still appear)

 

[LittleMissPanda]

Nintendo even nerfed the Nook Bank interest...... Geez what they don't want us to have funds??

 

[Dewasa]

Aww, just wanted to stop by and say sorry about your lost opportunities. On one hand, I do see how it sucks for players that do not want to spend the $ on online services. On another hand, I do see how it's a good feature for those who have spent $ on online services to be able and utilize it for the island/game.

Wishing you better luck and soon.

 

[Zura]

Is that the PM price? If so, let me over your town to sell and I'll tip you 99k

When your prices are low, never sell out, find someone online like I am doing now.

I don't think they play online or want to play online.

That's sucks dude, I've never actually taken the time to think about how sucky the stalk market would be playing alone. It's very interesting that you got hard punished with a huge spike after losing bells. I think huge spikes are supposed to come after decreasing or at least most of the time.

If it wasn't for the insanely high prices online I'd probably wouldn't do online stalks. It seems like it would be frustrationing/fun to play alone and work your way up with it. Although without TTing, this can take forever. Once again Nintendo is practically begging you to TT

 

[LuchaSloth]

I bought no turnips this past week. My brother comes and visits my town last night...and he's like "Dude, your turnips are selling for 559 bells!" Needless to say...I was not amused. And this is exactly why I usually don't even check turnip prices when I don't buy...because I don't want to feel like a loser who missed out. Mission failed. Lol.

 

[thelonewanderer]

I can't speak about the nerf on butterflies, but a decreasing pattern in the stalk market has always existed (at least in new leaf it did, idk about previous games), but that's part of the stalk (stock) market: high risk, high reward, or high loss. With that being said, having online membership makes it so that if you have a decreasing pattern, you can sell in another person's town. I'm sorry you lost so much money :c

This is my first time playing the stalk market and I'm also experimenting and testing it. I'm okay with the loss, but what I'm not okay with is the nerf to my butterflies spawn and without this source of income, I won't be able to buy turnips any longer.

There is no risk in using the online stalk market and that why I don't use it. It kind of defeat the point of a gamble or the stalk market in general for me.

Is that the PM price? If so, let me over your town to sell and I'll tip you 99k

When your prices are low, never sell out, find someone online like I am doing now.

NVM. Seems you may not have Nintendo Online :/

I have Nintendo online (free trial), I just don't want to use it yet. I have outdated basic ADSL which is so outdated you can't even buy a modem at any store nowadays.

And unfortunately this is AM price so it won't even last long.

It stink because last week my odd for making bells was 13 out of 14 meanwhile this week my odd for making bells (base on patterns) was 3 out of 9 and yet the better odds lost.

If I want lots of tips, I would have to host a lot of people but with my slow internet, I don't even see how that is possible. Most likely like just crash my game lol or something. I didn't play much of NL island tour because of how annoying it was for other people to wait while I load in.

 

[JKDOS]

There is a website that there that has been amazing at predicting turnip prices. https://stalks.io/


There's always a small chance you'll lose some money, but you'll never lose so much that you can't recover. It can predict when the prices are bound to only get worse, and it will advise to to sell now.

 

[Zura]

I can't speak about the nerf on butterflies, but a decreasing pattern in the stalk market has always existed (at least in new leaf it did, idk about previous games), but that's part of the stalk (stock) market: high risk, high reward, or high loss. With that being said, having online membership makes it so that if you have a decreasing pattern, you can sell in another person's town. I'm sorry you lost so much money :c

Yeah, so far I have never sold for less then 500. (I'm greedy guilty) I feel like I'm cheating the system by selling online haha. I can imagine how much it sucks to only be able to use your own prices. The stalk market online rarely has risks when online but while playing alone the risks are sky high.

 

[meggiewes]

The Stalk Market is always risky if you aren't going to use outside influences. It is just hard to do on your own! That is what makes turnips risky. I made a promise to myself to only make my first million using the big turnip spikes on these forums and other than that, get them on my own island or on islands of close friends.

I'm not sure about making bells being too hard now though. It has always felt like making bells was way too easy in this game. Maybe I'll feel differently about it in a month or so after I've burned through my savings with moving everything around a lot and improving my island's infrastructure.

 

[thelonewanderer]

Yeah, so far I have never sold for less then 500. (I'm greedy guilty) I feel like I'm cheating the system by selling online haha. I can imagine how much it sucks to only be able to use your own prices. The stalk market online rarely has risks when online but while playing alone the risks are sky high.

Its not stalk without risk. I enjoy the risk. But the nerf to my butterflies spawn mean the risk wasn't worth it because I have no way of making decent income to buy turnips again nor do I care about Flick visiting anymore. I already don't care about CJ so there now less interesting NPC visitor for me to look forward to.

If I use the online stalk market, I will probably quit this game. If I wanted to have unlimited money, I would have duped as it can't get any easier than that. I like the progress I make each week with the money I earn but I never expected Nintendo to completely screw over its player base. Am I back to collecting sea shells again?

Also for me when you take risk and get reward it a better feeling then knowing you will never lose so money is always expected.

 

[Raz]

While decreasing patterns aren't new, yes, Nintendo is trying everything they can to force people into buying an NSO subscription. There's content that is locked behind the paywall (like the custom designs made by other players) and some that are simply too difficult to find (like foreign flowers and fruits) if you don't trade online.

Also, it's not like we're paying for a dedicated server, as all Nintendo games are using P2P connection. They're basically charging us to use the internet we already pay for, locking game content behind a paywall. This isn't new, too, because it became an "accepted practice" back when Microsoft charged for gold subscription on the X360 and most people were on board with it.

Now, there's absolutely no reason at all for them to nerf the bugs and reduce interest at the same time, if not by trying to brute force people into paying for their stupid subscription. Since Iwata passed away, Nintendo changed a lot of their decisions and policies, and this is clear when we see what they've been doing with their services since the launch of the Nintendo Switch.

They know there's a lot of people out there who play AC as a single player game exclusively, and they purposefully designed NH to force people into playing online (an example of this is them locking the colors of the Nook Mile Items to your island, meaning you won't be able to find a specific color of the item you want unless you either got lucky or you gave up and bought NSO).

At the end of the day, no company wants your friendship, they only want one thing, and that's your money. Nintendo is no exception, no matter how people want to say they're "the good guys".

 

[fakemuseum]

Umm, it’s a mechanic of the game since long ago. It’s half your own fault to be so greedy. I would never buy that 1m turnip if I’m not sure, I can sell them online. If you love that slow pacing progress you mention, why you’re upsetting so much? You can save up to 1m for a week easily.

 

[thelonewanderer]

The Stalk Market is always risky if you aren't going to use outside influences. It is just hard to do on your own! That is what makes turnips risky. I made a promise to myself to only make my first million using the big turnip spikes on these forums and other than that, get them on my own island or on islands of close friends.

I'm not sure about making bells being too hard now though. It has always felt like making bells was way too easy in this game. Maybe I'll feel differently about it in a month or so after I've burned through my savings with moving everything around a lot and improving my island's infrastructure.

Umm, it’s a mechanic of the game since long ago. It’s half your own fault to be so greedy. I would never buy that 1m turnip if I’m not sure, I can sell them online. If you love that slow pacing progress you mention, why you’re upsetting so much? You can save up to 1m for a week easily.

Because I can't save money anymore because they got rid of my main source of income (butterflies).

 

[skogkyst]

I can relate, unfortunately I lost about ~114k bells this week on a decreasing pattern, which is going to make next week more difficult to earn a profit off of. That's just part of the stalk market ups-and-downs, but I share your frustration.

 

[Feraligator]

I never buy turnips, mainly because I don't really like playing online and I'm always scared of losing a lot. Everytime I check, they buy turnips for like 10 bells lol, no thanks

 

[Sudsofsplash]

Because I can't save money anymore because they got rid of my main source of income (butterflies).

They didn't get rid of them LOL they just made it a little tougher! You just have to work and grind for it more. Personally it's a bit annoying to me, since I'd rather get my island completed and looking nice and then focus on making income and filling up my museum and stuff, but Nintendo seems to really want ppl to grind for bells and not play the way they want to lol

 

[meggiewes]

Because I can't save money anymore because they got rid of my main source of income (butterflies).

What about selling fruit? What about just collecting and selling materials? What about turning those materials into DIYs for bigger cash? What about hot ticket items? What about money trees? What about fishing? What about saving the highest-earning fish or bugs to sell to Flick or CJ? What about finding random furniture items that fall out of trees and selling them? Shaking the bells out of trees?

I can make about 100k+ a day if I really wanted to just earn bells. Right now, without trying very hard, I normally make about 50k with just average playtime. There are more ways to earn a good amount of bells than just catching bugs or butterflies.

I guess the question is: how much money are you looking to earn about of your average playtime?