Time Traveling

[davidlblack]

I think I might stop time traveling in my town from now on... While it helps you move villagers in/out, complete PWP's faster, upgrade house quickly, etc; I think I should stop. My reason?

The Town Tree.

As you may know, when your town tree reaches a certain size you can sit next to in and a nostalgic flashback of sorts will play through. Basically, the game records when you took office, when shops open, when villagers move in, when PWPs are completed, and how many visitors you've had in your town. The problem? It shows the date of these things. So, did you save up some bells, TT to say... november 18th and complete a project, tt back and do another? It says: 11/18... the XXX project was completed 11/13... the XYX project was completed.
Basically, it looks stupid. Plus, if you timetravel to much, you might start to get bored with the game. You'll unlock everything quickly and things might become... boring.

So what are your thoughts on TTing? Do you TT? Are you against it? Should I stop TTing for good?

Thanks for reading!

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[pynkuu]

I agree a lot actually
I just restarted my town and went back to october, gave myself a month of travelling from day to day to at least keep the sequential order. Now I'm caught back up to 11/13 and have been playing normally with my town somewhat similar to where I left off <:
I don't really do dramatic TT to begin with, like I've never gone forward a year or like more than a month. But a large part of why I started over too was because of my hiatus. It went from my town being conceived in 2013 to nothing major in 2015 and then...nothing. Felt really broken up and empty to me.

 

[coffee-cream]

Yeah, when I still had my Kokora file I time traveled alot, and it made my Town Tree look dumb with all the dates, I don't do it much anymore, though I still time travel in my new town a bit for reasons.

 

[Blueskyy]

Yeah I have tted a lot in the past. Mine is all messed up, but I never really sit down to read it so I never cared.

 

[unintentional]

I time travel often within the same day (I normally play around 10 or 11 pm and I like playing more when it's light outside in the game.) It's never more than a offset of 12 hours (I go from a time like 10:17 PM to 10:17 AM of the same day.)

My second town I played I often time traveled a few days ahead every day (like if it was 11/18 in real life, I'd be around 11/28 in the game.) It made it hard to keep wanting to play the game since I'd see posts on here about holidays that I've already passed. It also made hard to keep up with all my villagers because I'd be more focused on gathering fossils and hitting the bell rock/fake rock and then tting to the next day until my pockets were full.

My first town I messed up time traveling and had my entire town overgrown with weeds! I had to reset because I didn't know at the time about Lief.

Personally, if I were you I'd stop tting. It ruins a lot of the charm of the game imho. I've always seen animal crossing as a more social-type game, whether it be through just reading on a forum like this or playing with people daily. When you tt it becomes hard to do either, in my experience.

 

[MOON TRIPS]

I'm not against TTing
tho I've stopped doing it so much myself, because it makes me get bored with the game more quickly. taking things slowly gives me a reason to actually check in on things every day.
I don't think you need to stop for good, but I think it's awesome if you can manage to not be reliant on it.

 

[StiX]

I've never, ever time traveled for all those reasons. I love the game the way it is! Even back on the Nintendo DS version of the game I always used to grab my DS on the bus on the way to school, greet my villagers in the morning, make appointments to meet them later, be sad when I missed someone who said he's going to leave town... but that's what the game is to me, a growing, living, town right in my pocket.

Even right now when I took a long break, they know how long i've been gone for and I can look back on the bulletin board, all the events that I've missed, who won the events ect. Even right now before going out every morning I try to check on my little town and everytime I'm sitting on that town tree ledge I can remember every single moment of it and I love it!

I'm not againt time traveling though and I play with people who do time travel. I just promised myself not to do it, whatever happens. Got my town since the game was released and we're going strong

 

[XxEspeonxX]

My tree currently looks that stupid now, I have 3 villagers who moved in on the same day xD And I didn't notice it until after I did that, Im personally not against time traveling it can really help if you're kind of impatient like me and just want to blast threw a couple days of Animal Crossing, but I've thought about doing a couple months without time traveling and maybe that could help you if you just take a break and see if you can deal with that, before starting a new town!

 

[stitchmaker]

In my main town I've only tted a couple of times. Once to move a day ahead for events. This way I can play the event with the villager and than enjoy it with my family. I do change the clock back if I'm late starting that town.

I did time travel a lot in a town that wasn't real at the time. It was for just growing weeds, fruit and for events for my online friends. Pave Day is more fun when you play in a group. At the time the town had very little trees and everyone could run. The town is real now so things are out of order. Got Gracie shop on a weird year.

Even if you don't time travel the date gets changed for the flower clock and a few other PWP. In one town I moved it 7 times and the date changes. So the tree time is wrong for the flower clock in all of my towns.

I've never time traveled in real town to get all the shops unlocked or to get PWP built fast. With my town that I let visitor in I've decided to play it Late February to Late September now. I've been playing since the release and have played all the events in 4 real towns. Made all the snow people so many time that I feel I don't need to do that in my visitors town anymore. Right now it's June and I'm enjoying wearing shorts and flip flops.

 

[Claude]

I usually TT ahead if I have free time to play and won't have free time to play later in the week. It's a week ahead at the latest, so it doesn't make too much of a difference.

I do TT time a lot though even if I stay in the same day.

 

[Tobiume]

I honestly have never time traveled because I don't think having your town's greenery die off is really all that worth it just to have some new villager move in or what not. I could use the beautiful ordinance but I play pretty late at night sometimes so it's nice to be able to sell beetles to Reese.

P: I also burnt through many of my game goals fast enough to not really need to time travel. Even without time travelling I get pretty tired of New Leaf, so I'd imagine the burn out would be much worse with time travelling.

 

[miraxe]

I'm pretty much neutral on time traveling. I don't consider it cheating at all, but I don't really use it too often myself. I will shamelessly time travel to the next day if I'm too excited for Streetpass/Campground items, though haha. On Wild World, I was time traveling like crazy, though. Sometimes I miss playing in a spring town in the middle of fall. : ) City Folk was especially fun to time travel in since you could change up your Gracie selection, but I'm getting better at waiting these days.

I know a lot of people won't time travel due to not wanting to lose villagers, but I'm not too attached to my villagers. It's fine if they move. I can easily find a home for them on this forum, plus most of my villagers are from Amiibo cards now, so I can just get them back as soon as they leave.

I didn't even realize that the dates were on there! I haven't really sat through the credits myself.

 

[Lualdara]

Lol I tt all the time, I don't spend over one-two hours on each day.

I don't have the patience to wait for a new irl day, so I just skip forward once I've done all there is to do that day. Otherwise the game would be incredibly boring for me, I like to achieve things quickly and having to wait two weeks to unlock something would make me not want to play the game.

I don't see why anyone would be "against it", it's just a choice? It's just a game, you can't police the way other people enjoy it. And there are many ways to play the same game. Some people prefer taking it slowly, some like to power through it.

I've never regretted tting. It's the best way for me to play.

 

[Balentay]

I time travel all the time. Actually, because my ds got water damaged I skipped forward to something ridiculous like 2020 or 2022. I can't remember.
At any rate, hello from the future!

I'm far too impatient to play a full 24 hour day. The idea is appealing, sure, but I've tried it and I've never been able to do it. I'll time travel multiple times in a day. I play for hours, and I think I'd quickly lose interest if I just played it day to day!

I've also never really cared about how my tree looks. It's a tree? With tedious text? Sitting under that tree is a mistake every single time lemme tell you!

 

[spunkystella]

I used to TT all the time, but now I just see it burns the game out faster for me. I want those trees to grow, yes, but it's more exciting and so much more rewarding playing in real time.