Time Travelling

[RainCrossing]

Hi! I'm currently interested in Time Travelling! What negative affects does time travelling less than two days into the future of into the past? Why shouldn't you time travel and why should? And finally, should I time travel to get bugs from the island? Thank you so much to the people that answer ~

 

[natakazam]

Hi!

Well, what ordinance do you have? If you're TTing only a day or two at a time, you'll have to water all your flowers a lot if you don't have beautiful town. If you don't have it I would definitely tell you to get it before you start TTing regularly. If you have beautiful town, the only thing to really worry about is your villagers.

Since you have none of your dreamies, it's probably not too much of a concern if one moves out, I'd assume. But if you ARE worried about villagers moving out, every time you load your game from TTing, go around and talk to all of them to make sure they're not ignoring you or moving. You can also talk to like, say two villagers until they tell you to go away because they'll tell you if someone is thinking of moving.

I guess my post is biased, because I have and always will TT, but I also only do it within a few days increments. I don't think I've ever had any problems with TTing, I've always been careful with my villagers, especially now that I have all 10 dreamies. And as far as the island is concerned, yeah, go for it, TT to like 8pm and make some bells.

 

[Serif]

7PM is the best time for island. That's when the good stuff spawns.
If you don't know how to efficiently spam the island there are videos.
But for a basic rundown, you get rid of all the stuff in the center. Bushes. Flowers. Trees.
Just leave the palm trees on the beach.
Grab the net and rod. If you see a fin, fish it up.
Pass up Goliath beetles and the big fat sunfish sharks. Neither are worth their spaces.
Everything else is 8k+
I highly suggest setting to Bell Boom the day before an island trip, and setting back to beautiful town the night before you TT to the next day. That way you get 400-500K per trip.

As for TTing.

-start with 1-2 day increments. Use beautiful town to make your life easier.
-going forward counts as a new day. But you can go back a whole year and it only counts as a day. Good to remember this. Also going back "repeats" a day so you won't get new fossils, money rock,, etc. but going forward will be a fresh day even if you played that day already.
-if you don't want a mover just bear in mind that animals move within 5 days of the ping. So if you can have a mover be safe by not going 5 days beyond your current date.
-tips for finding mover:
-find all animals and ping. Save and quit and reload if some animals aren't outside.
-talk to animals for gossip. Normal characters will comment on validating gossip before believing it, etched. Peppy will beg you for the latest news. If you get that generic dialogue, you lack a mover.
-if you're paranoid, make a new file and check all houses. If you see a mover, bail and TT back to previous date. Ping the mover.