Do you time travel? Just sometimes or always, rarely? never?. I time travel a lot sometimes and sometimes I dont, I mostly time travel to unlock stuff. Did you ever regret time traveling? Like if a great villager moves or something? One time my favorite villager moved, but it turned out she moved to my friends town so I got her back (that was my old town.)
Time Traveling
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NightDelight
Meme Collector
I do the 16 villager cycle to get my dreamies, that requires TT. I also use it to unlock stuff and I also TT a few hours before since I play late at night. When I first started, I accidentally TT Purrl out and I was super sad since I just recieved her + she was a dreamie. I'm really inpatient so yah :/
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I didn't TT when I first got my game, as I wanted to play how I considered 'fairly' so I worked at playing day by day and unlocking all the shops naturally. Now that I have all the shops and house upgrades and such, I TT a bit for plot resetting and such.
daiyuflower
Senior Member
My general policy is not to time travel, but I have been lately so that I can move villagers out, get them into boxes faster, and adopt my dreamies ^_^
ACWWGal2012
Senior Member
I do so I can catch up to the current day. Am in late august at the moment.
I time travel sometimes to cycle some villagers out. Sometimes I do it just so I have something more to do like upgrade my house or see what is new in the shops
I don't want to accidently mess things up!
fuzzynumber9
Hopper is my co-pilot
I didn't plan to when I restarted, but as said above, old habits die hard... I am so impatient so I did it to get my house upgraded and to move out villagers and my shops and stuff then I chilled out a while, but now that I finally picked dreamies I'm tting like mad to move out my last two unwanted villagers (and it is mad boring because I'm super careful and basically load a day, run in front of whoever I want to move, if they don't ping I go talk to everyone I can find below main street and talk to them a minimum of 5 times, talk to at least two of them until they almost go into deep thought to check for rumors, then save and start all over again). I always end up going back to real time when I've done whatever I set out to do but I do a fair amount of bouncing around. I also tend to set my time to whenever I need it, I mostly play in the evening but prefer my game in the daytime, unless I need a bug or fish or something at a weird time then I set my clock to whatever time is optimal.
There are a lot of time sensitive things in this game and I just can't fathom not getting to catch or unlock everything because my life dictates that I don't play at all kinds of weird hours.
There are a lot of time sensitive things in this game and I just can't fathom not getting to catch or unlock everything because my life dictates that I don't play at all kinds of weird hours.
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Time travelling scares me a bit too. I'm very new to ACNL but played ACWW for a looong time and never time travelled because I was worried about messing things up. I feel the same now. I think my rule is going to be no time travelling. But we'll see how that goes!
infinikitten
big old brat tbh
In order to do the sixteen villager shuffle, I TT'd a whole bunch, and I got to experience a few cute villagers I wouldn't have thought to get, otherwise - but ultimately I lost a few I really loved in the process, so I do regret it.
Apart from that, I TT whenever I feel it's necessary, and no I don't feel guilty about it, haha. If I'm trying to plant things and want to know whether they'll look okay when they're finished, I TT forward to check it out so I can get back to work asap. If there's an all-day event that takes up all my villagers' time and I'm not into it, like Festivale or the fishing tourney, I'll TT past that, then back a day when it passes. I'm more careful with it now and don't do it often or just for the hell of it, but I DO do it.
Apart from that, I TT whenever I feel it's necessary, and no I don't feel guilty about it, haha. If I'm trying to plant things and want to know whether they'll look okay when they're finished, I TT forward to check it out so I can get back to work asap. If there's an all-day event that takes up all my villagers' time and I'm not into it, like Festivale or the fishing tourney, I'll TT past that, then back a day when it passes. I'm more careful with it now and don't do it often or just for the hell of it, but I DO do it.
I never used to do it more than one day ahead at a time for a max of 3 days before returning to the current day. And I only did that during really slow borin times. Now since I've had the game well over a year now I don't play very often, but since I'm so happy with my villagers I've been playing only one day after the last day I played. Basically I'm playing in the past as I haven't played ACNL consistently since fall 2014 so if I was to start up my game right now I'd be playing in September 2014 lol.
Touhru Adachi
Handsome Ladykiller
I definitely time travel a bit, but mostly for specific reasons.
I TT in the very beginning to get my shops all upgraded, and so I can get an axe to clear out trees I don't want and to plant new ones.
I TT to get villagers in boxes when I have 10 and someone is offering me my dreamie and/or I'm trying to cycle out someone else's dreamie that I happen to have and not want.
If I haven't played in a while, I TT back to the time I stopped playing, then load up and do stuff, then slowly TT my way to the present.
Sometimes, though very rarely, I TT if i get bored with the day. AKA no good tours, no events happening, no villagers pinging me for PWPs or anything, and I've already collected shells / fruits everywhere.
I TT in the very beginning to get my shops all upgraded, and so I can get an axe to clear out trees I don't want and to plant new ones.
I TT to get villagers in boxes when I have 10 and someone is offering me my dreamie and/or I'm trying to cycle out someone else's dreamie that I happen to have and not want.
If I haven't played in a while, I TT back to the time I stopped playing, then load up and do stuff, then slowly TT my way to the present.
Sometimes, though very rarely, I TT if i get bored with the day. AKA no good tours, no events happening, no villagers pinging me for PWPs or anything, and I've already collected shells / fruits everywhere.
Paperboy012305
Male Villager for Mario Kart World!
I used to Time Travel a lot. Now I only do it for moving villagers out and demolishing PWPS, getting cataloged items if I didn't order them before 5pm, tting to AM to buy turnips from Joan (I never done that, too much work) and tting to AM if the high turnip price is in AM.
I didn't use to time travel, but when I came back from a long break, I did so to match my work schedule. Since it's random and rather chaotic, I use time travel to stay roughly current but catch up on things that normally I would miss, such as open shop hours, midnight bug hunting on the island, and doing favors for my residents.
I didn't TT at first when I got the game, but after a while I felt like the game moved too slowly without time traveling. Shop upgrades take too long to happen in this game, and Nooks and Able Sisters don't have enough items, so it takes an extremely long time to get everything you want if you don't TT. Days without any special visitors or events are not very exciting. I don't believe Animal Crossing should give people instant gratification because then the game would get stale fast, but there are things which need to be sped up in the next Animal Crossing game if there is one because people are not going to play the game for several years to make their town the way they want it to be.
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