thelonewanderer
Senior Member
I understand your passion about the game, and agree with your points somewhat, but still feel like I want to respond to some of it. For the record, I TT a little bit but about 60% of the time play the game in real-time, so take that with whatever you'd like.
This is probably an issue from before most people got terraforming or their Nook's Cranny upgrades. Now that we're a month into the game, the only thing that separates TTers from non-TTers in this aspect is how many hours they've put into this game. I think that social media is toxic, perfectionism is a plague upon this generation of society, but that's not limited to animal crossing. How many Instagrammers have "perfect lives", that super expensive designer purse, or a gorgeous house? They have those things because that's all they show to the world. Yet behind the scenes, they could be body-shaming themselves, think they're worthless, or be in debt because they failed to budget correctly and threw their money into their lifestyle. My point here is that perfectionism, and by the same extent, the "perfect animal crossing town" doesn't exist, and is toxic. Sure, their town looks better than yours. But who cares, as long as you like yours? My town isn't "perfect". I'm still at a 3-star rating. I have parts of it that I like, and parts of it that I don't. Others, however, only have compliments. So honestly, stop comparing yourselves to whatever you're seeing on social media, you're doing yourself a disservice.
What spoilers are even in Animal Crossing? Seasons? Nook's Cranny getting an upgrade? Okay, I guess... but if you've played previous installments, it's not particularly difficult to guess that yes, seasonal items exist and that there would probably be seasonal DIYs (if the sakura/bunny day ones weren't enough to give it away, I don't know what is). While the items themselves, perhaps being unobtainable right now, I guess that's an issue, but personally it gives me something to look forward to. This is kind of a valid point though, but I don't think it's correct to attack TTers as being self-interested for that.
Not really, though TTers bring supply to meet the demand. It's simple economics at that point. Dreamies are an issue, but it's never been easy to get your perfect dreamies or your perfect 10 villagers. People paying 1000 NMT for Raymond need to be stopped, probably. And the fact that he's so ridiculously rare and popular is another issue. Though honestly, if your 10 dreamies also happen to be the 10 most popular characters, than of course they're going to be expensive. There's a limited supply of villagers moving out, and high demand.
TTing gives you an advantage, but it's not particularly a massive one. Ever sold turnips at any price higher than 500-600? Some of those people got lucky, yes, but a lot of them got lucky because they were time travelling.
I don't really see TTers complain about the game being boring. If anything, they did it to themselves and should at least be self-aware enough to admit that.
Complaining about moving buildings again is a completely fair criticism of the system. It costs 50,000 bells (even if you don't care about 50k, sure, whatever) and you can only move one building a day. Have your village planned out but have to move your buildings one by one? Place your house down wrong by a pixel and have to wait a day to do it over again? It's understandably frustrating. You can't move bridges or inclines (you have to delete them and remake them). If you decide you don't like the design on one of them, well, you have to destroy it and rebuild it again. With how simple placing furniture outside, moving trees, laying paths, and changing your river layout has made the town customization, it's surprising that moving houses and buildings be so timegated.
It's a different interpretation of how they perceive their game. You also seem to be unfairly lumping all TTers together. I don't think you're a troll (that term gets incorrectly overused all the time anyways), just think that you're coming off a bit overaggressive here, and I'd like to have a discussion about your views because I think that many of them are fair.
I think that's a great quality to have, compassion is super hard to come across these days. I also feel for the people who can't afford to pay ridiculous market prices on some of their dreamies, so I plan to give some of my more popular villagers away for a relatively low price when they ping me to move out.
I just disagree with your blanket statements against TTers ruining the community and ruining the economy. Yes, some of them complain. I have no problem imagining that some TTers take advantage of others by charging outrageous amounts for some things (the fact that people are willing to pay that much contributes just as much to the problem).
I haven't read all the rest of this thread, but there's angry/mean people all over the internet, regardless of TTer/non-TTer/political affiliation/gender/etc.
This is more of a town-planner vs non-town-planner complaint lol. To accomodate more buildings, I have to tear down displays, move villager houses around (see above for why I think moving villager houses gets frustrating), and rearrange a large portion of my town. I planned my town around just two player houses, 10 villager houses, resident services, museum, able sisters, and nooks. Adding another building to that mix is a bit of a pain.
I love a civil discussion so thank you for that.
The 3 points I added don't apply to me, it apply to other people. Only the #4 point apply to me. I don't know if you read what I wrote prior to that or it was cut or something.
In general I don't have problem with folks on here (unless its on the trading board) even those who call me a troll (twice this week) since I don't take things to heart. But if you browse gamefaq, reddit, youtube, and other forums, you will see that TTers constantly make multiple thread a day complaining about literally everything! They will make thread asking why people think TT is cheating and will make every excuses in the book on why its not.
And you can't really avoid them, I mean even in the official Nintendo direct for the newest update, so many comments involve TTers complaining about everything. Let me put a real life example of an ex-friend I used to have. So basically we would be playing the same game, and then he would complain and cuss out loud why the game is hard to figure out. I ask him did he read the instruction manual that came with the game? He tell me "why would I do that, that just stupid, I learn on my own". So why on earth are you complaining them?
That guy drove me nuts for years until I finally had it lol. That what TTers who complain are akin to. Complain that the game lack content and is boring but its their own fault for time traveling. That the side-effect of time traveling.
Also I try not to lump all TTers together but I have explain multiple times on literally every TT thread on here that I do not have a problem with all TTers.
I don't know if I answer all your questions?