I'm in Oz too, Queensland (GMT +10). I feel your struggle.
Ah, solidarity!
I doubt it will get much action, but I just created "
The Australia, New Zealand & South East Asia Thread!" over at the train station.
I have to stay up quite late to trade with a lot of users on this forum because I live in South East Asia, basically in the same boat as the aussies. Trading is fine, but because it's so late for me (or so early for a lot of folks) I never really get to do anything longer than a trade.
I must sound like such an uptight person when I push to arrange a specific time to trade, but I think most players forget that there's a southern hemisphere too! Because of this, I've kinda given up on trades, social visits, etc.
By the way, Tiny Tree is one of my all time favourite towns! Absolutely inspiring.
Hi, fellow Aussie (Melbourne!) here *waves*
The timezone thing is the biggest reason I stopped using the Train Station board much. It's hard enough for me to get times sorted for trades. Trying to find a mutually suitable time to play with someone for an hour or two to just hang out in-game has become something of a pipe-dream for me. Aside from RL friends and trades I can't even recall when the last time I was in someone else's town or they in mine. Maybe the Fair last year for an event?
I'd like to visit more towns and I've got no problem with having visitors to mine at a later date. I think I'll try and get that happening once I've sorted my towns out to make them less overwhelming for visitors.
Looking at your signature I thought you might be in Melbourne too
Yep, I'm trying to arrange some trades right now and it's taking a fair bit of planning and effort to work out times. I would love to have friends over for social visits, trades and the like once I reset my town and build something worth spending time in... I just don't want to stay up 'til 3:30am to make it happen!
I'm trying to convince some of my RL friends to play too, although I think ACNL is a little too slow paced for most of them. I dream of leisurely hours spent laying on the grass, playing side by side....
... who knew my friendship goals would be so basic in my 30's