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What else are NMTs used for?
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Sara?
Senior Member
It just cause some people have a favorite villager that they are trying to find and that is why they want very large quantities of NMT, so they can go many times to the island and find that one villager 
Also for resources like weeds, nuggets, stone, fruit
They are for going to mystery tours to find villagers or special islands. Usually when I buy one on the NM program I end up with a generic island. I haven't really been lucky.
I would really love to know how people can spend 30 NMT on a simple trade without batting an eye. Are these things being hacked?
I would really love to know how people can spend 30 NMT on a simple trade without batting an eye. Are these things being hacked?
Krissi2197
wolf pack fanatic
People are selling huge quantities of tickets on ebay for irl money and I'm ASSUMING these tickets are not legitimate.
sour
what is love
Not necessarily, it's fairly easy to acquire Nook Miles. And if you trade items/bells/villagers/TBT for NMT it's also fairly easy to get a nice amount. But those listings on ebay are definitely from cfw Switches.
And I read on Twitter somewhere that Nintendo does seem to monitor activity? Or at least there are data logs. They're probably aware that players are selling and buying for real money. I bet they're just waiting to gather enough player accounts, and then the ban hammer will fall on a lot of Nintendo accounts. Happened during Pokemon Go when bots were rampant.
Delphine
Senior Member
The maximum I was able to save up on my own was 20, I indeed tried my luck on Mystery Islands (it wasn't a success) and after that bought 20 in exchange for TBT bells from someone here, just so that I have a few on hands that I can offer in auctions for my dreamies.
I was surprised that it became a currency of its own, too! But how people manage to get over 300, I have no idea!
I was surprised that it became a currency of its own, too! But how people manage to get over 300, I have no idea!
I understand you can accumulate a lot of tickets over time by doing plus/regular miles yourself and by trading for some here or there. But the rate they are being thrown about (and traded for items that don't warrant such excess) screams hacking. That's my beef. It messes up the trading economy for the rest of us who want to still trade legitimately.
the worst part is we can't even prove that people are using hacked tickets. I think there's a few people around here who have earned them legitimately (like artists asking for tickets in exchange for artwork?) but I do share the belief that the majority of tickets circulating around here are from hackers or people who bought them with real money.
And they started dumping them into our economy, so if someone came across a popular villager they wanted to sell, they suddenly had buyers throwing hundreds or even thousands of tickets towards that sale. And I don't think we can fault that lucky seller who just happened to come across that villager. If you come across something valuable, you can't help that people are going to offer you hundreds of tickets, you know?
But now it's all a mess and there's a huge divide in our community right now. There's a lot of people who can't even hope to participate in the markets around here. You just gotta get lucky and find a seller who not only has what you want, but is willing to sell to you for a fair price
I never got into the NL scene until Xmas of 2014. I know they had to make a bunch of patches before I got in. Was the trading economy messed up in the early days? Probably not to this extent I'd imagine, but was there a divide?
TortimerCrossing
♡ bad egg ♡
I think its important to understand how we use NMT as currency on the forum. Obviously a big trend is selling or auctioning villagers for NMT anywhere from 50-1000 tickets go for villagers. But, when using NMT as currency outside of that its a bit different.
DIYs typically go for 1-3 NMT per depending on rarity, sometimes even more. I think the standard bell to NMT rate is 200,000 bells for 1 NMT (though some sell for less or more) and NMT to tbt rate is about 15-25 tbt per 1 NMT. This is important to understand because you might buy a DIY for 1 NMT, but most furniture shouldn't in reality cost as much (think about it as 200k bells).
Just my understanding of the current strange currency happening.
DIYs typically go for 1-3 NMT per depending on rarity, sometimes even more. I think the standard bell to NMT rate is 200,000 bells for 1 NMT (though some sell for less or more) and NMT to tbt rate is about 15-25 tbt per 1 NMT. This is important to understand because you might buy a DIY for 1 NMT, but most furniture shouldn't in reality cost as much (think about it as 200k bells).
Just my understanding of the current strange currency happening.
IonicKarma
Wishful Phoenix
From what I’ve seen in other games, a lot of people who have tons of tickets (including myself) get them not from buying them directly but from trading. Particularly in MMOs, one rarely farms for currency directly but often farms for a rare item drop and then sells that for a lot of currency, or crafts things worth a lot of currency and then sells those to players.
With how large of a community Animal Crossing New Horizons is, we are starting to see the same MMO effect where the people with a lot of currency almost have to get them by trading their way up in order to buy whatever big ticket item they are after (such as Raymond for instance.)
Of course this game does have the hacking in tickets and people buying currency with real life money problem but I don’t think that’s the majority reason of why people have so many tickets. It certainly is frustrating trying to buy anything expensive with tickets you farmed yourself but you also tend to see that to be the case in any popular online game with a trading market.
With how large of a community Animal Crossing New Horizons is, we are starting to see the same MMO effect where the people with a lot of currency almost have to get them by trading their way up in order to buy whatever big ticket item they are after (such as Raymond for instance.)
Of course this game does have the hacking in tickets and people buying currency with real life money problem but I don’t think that’s the majority reason of why people have so many tickets. It certainly is frustrating trying to buy anything expensive with tickets you farmed yourself but you also tend to see that to be the case in any popular online game with a trading market.
The current situation isn't even messed up, in my opinion. It's just the way an online trading economy works, and you can see it in MMOs. Something that has a lot of demand and is difficult to spawn into the game carries a high price tag. You have speculation that hacked NMTs are coming into the game, but that hasn't been proven. Those ebay sellers that have been brought up here could be buying them cheaply in bulk and trying to flip them for a higher price. I don't condone real world trading, but what we have seen so far doesn't necessarily 'scream' hacking.
The New Leaf situation was incredibly messed up. There was a save-scumming duplication trick that was never patched, so literally nothing had value except for villagers. But then you trade those villagers for what? Bells? That also had no value, and just took time transferring it back and forth. I guess that's where TBT bells came in.
That's just the tip of the iceberg as far as how broken the New Leaf economy was. There were later hacking programs developed that could do 'text to item' which spawned whatever you wanted, infinitely, at whim.
IonicKarma
Wishful Phoenix
Oh my god I never knew it was that bad, glad I never took part too much on online trading in new leaf then haha!
RooftopsRevolution
Senior Member
It's been happening in animal crossing since Wild World, I don't think that's going to stop.
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Also just for everyone saying they're illegitimate, right now there are no streamlined hacks for ACNH. It's not too hard to get tickets honestly. You can get a ton through time travelling and doing NM+ things or by having a second character on your island.
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