Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

[Kramer]

Say you pay millions of bells for a villager, how do you then get it to come to your own village?

[sir stiff_one]

You go to the island when they are thinking of leaving and persuade them to come to yours. 
 

Inflation due to turnip market and time travel and the online marketplace. 

[Broker]

It does seem insane, but as 8 million a time I could be sooooo rich 

[sir stiff_one]

I mean, when people get a vaguely good sell price they push Daisy Mae to the airport, box her in and charge for people to come buy. If you time travel until you get a good price for selling, you just charge people to come sell and never need to buy any yourself.

[sir stiff_one]

8 million is a weeks turnip haul for novice min maxers. It’s about 4 full loads of turnips, and people are filling half their island making 20m+ Selling at just over 500. If you time travel, buy more and find a place to sell, (e.g. have a buddy who does the same until they get a good sell price then yeah).

 

People will always min max. I had a twitch stream on in the background earlier and the guy spent a straight hour buying turnips.

[Broker]

Jesus Christ. I thought I was playing quite a lot and had a fair amount of shit. Why would you need that much money?

[MagicalDrop]

I'm all for investing a fair wedge in the turnip game as per the rules, but where's the fun in all that time travelling bollocks? 

[NexivRed]

Yeah, fuck that. Ruins all the surprises. I don’t like looking up lists of all the items available, especially brollies. I love just coming across stuff. 

[Broker]

6am sky is pretty

 

[ilpostino]

I've been moving houses around and I put one one tile further over than all the others...that's 100,000 bells to fix one tile. Ffs!

[g wings]

1 hour ago, ilpostino said:

I've been moving houses around and I put one one tile further over than all the others...that's 100,000 bells to fix one tile. Ffs!

Done that a couple of times. I now lay a temporary path as reference.

[ilpostino]

15 minutes ago, g wings said:

Done that a couple of times. I now lay a temporary path as reference.

 

I do that too, usually. Wasn't thinking and tried to eyeball it.

[Alex W.]

6 hours ago, sir stiff_one said:

I mean, when people get a vaguely good sell price they push Daisy Mae to the airport, box her in and charge for people to come buy. If you time travel until you get a good price for selling, you just charge people to come sell and never need to buy any yourself.

 

Two sentences that only make sense in video games or Philip K Dick novels.

[Rayn]

I've started to see forum posts (not on here) and youtube comments stating that some people are done with AC because there's nothing left to do.

They blame Nintendo for making an unbalanced game that's supposed to last a year when they have all possible item variations, bugs, fish and flowers on top of millions of bells within weeks of release. It is, of course, Nintendos fault that you can time travel to aquire all this because Nintendo wouldn't make it possible if it wasn't a feature of the game. Some think there are far too few items and furniture diversity in the game, others think the island is way to small because what's the point in all the items when there isn't room to display it all?

 

I backtracked a couple of these poster's post history and found quite a few "wow, this is the best game ever" and "I'm so excited for tomorrow, I'm getting Mabels' shop"

and "Ooh, I wonder if I get KK tomorrow, I need paths" so these people clearly had excitement and fun with the game at some point but they really went and ruined the experience for themselves by getting greedy and wanted everything asap. 

 

As always, it's pretty much "to each their own" but blaming the developers and publisher for making a shit game when you've clearly played it in unintended ways is rather puzzling to me. 

 

I used to have island envy myself, but now I'm actually quite fond of my island. I mean, I'm still far from being finished and I haven't even filled half of my island with stuff yet but I now have an ultimate goal and know what to put where, I'm just waiting until I have the proper items before starting each of the projects. I'm finally done with my restaurant and I think it looks pretty good, my next project will be attached to the museum and will be some sort of arts and fossil souvenir shop. While I continue to plan my coming projects, I'm gonna enjoy the shit out of paying you guys a visit from time to time. In the last few days I've been to @velma, @Alex W., @Broker, @Lyrical Donut and @Loz Boz and they all had amazing islands that inspired me to do something new back home. 

Keep up the good work guys, fling the gates open from time to time and I'll see you out there. I'll bring snacks  

 

PS: Plz don't go Marty McFly on me, I think you'll regret it. 

[SteveH]

This is why I haven't asked for item exchanges when I have offered stuff to people. I want to find stuff at my own pace unless it's something truly difficult to come across and I want to complete a set of some kind.

I get why people want to swap stuff early on, but they seem to have a goal of exactly how they want the island to look. I have no idea about mine yet to be honest, but I'm happy to take my time. I'm sure Nintendo will add a lot of stuff in the future. But for the love of god get rid of the villagers needing medicine. I'm sure it was taken out of NW, as the last few months, maybe a year or so (?) I don't recall any villagers needing medicine in the game - or did the herd immunity take place without me noticing?

[thesnwmn]

I agree complaints about a lack of content or support after hundreds of hours of play are stupid. It’s crazy to expect anything else.

 

But I notice a trend in AC threads that’s like being in Apple threads. The references to people playing it wrong (not reacting specifically to the above, it’s just the latest to use or imply this thought process). Like the way some part of the community reacts to TT or turnip trading or looking up items/bugs/fish.

 

What I think is amazing about the game is that it supports such a broad range of play styles and basically none of them miss out. Want to TT to get items or complete your criterpedia quickly. Have fun. Want to mass trade turnips for huge piles of bells. Knock yourself out. Want to play 30mins a day and forgot to dig up half your fossils. No problem.

[moosegrinder]

People in being cunts shocker. Fuck em. They ruined the game for themselves.

 

I look up items when it's someone's birthday to try and get the best thing for them. I'm not even sure what the benefit of this is, I just don't want the weird, digital, anthropomorphic animal to be unhappy. Because that matters, obviously.

 

Also I'm that cunt that buys hooky Etsy cards. I was going to get two for my final neighbours but I decided to roll the dice on one and got Kat from Licky End, which I think is @Weavus's island. I didn't even go and rob her, she just turned up. She has a small face.

 

The other one is going to be sprocket, because who doesn't want a mechanical bird as a neighbour?

[sir stiff_one]

7 hours ago, MagicalDrop said:

I'm all for investing a fair wedge in the turnip game as per the rules, but where's the fun in all that time travelling bollocks? 

Do what makes you happy. Everyone plays the game in a different way.

[CheekyLee]

Does anybody know if it is possible to buy from Crazy Redd when visiting someone? I ask because he is selling 3 genuine paintings this morning, at least according to the guide I read, and I can only buy 1! 

[moosegrinder]

1 minute ago, CheekyLee said:

Does anybody know if it is possible to buy from Crazy Redd when visiting someone? I ask because he is selling 3 genuine paintings this morning, at least according to the guide I read, and I can only buy 1! 

 

I think so, but he won't have the same paintings that the one on your island has will he?

[Tet]

You can only buy 1 artpiece a day. Whether it's from your island or another person's.

[Tet]

And can I visit this person with 3 genuine artpieces?

[CheekyLee]

Just now, moosegrinder said:

 

I think so, but he won't have the same paintings that the one on your island has will he?

 

1 minute ago, Tetmon said:

You can only buy 1 artpiece a day. Whether it's from your island or another person's.

I know I can only buy 1. What I want to know us if 2 others could visit my island to take advantage of definite genuine paintings. (Moody and Dynamic.)

[Tet]

1 minute ago, CheekyLee said:

 

I know I can only buy 1. What I want to know us if 2 others could visit my island to take advantage of definite genuine paintings. (Moody and Dynamic.)

Yes they can, if they haven't bought today already.

[sir stiff_one]

8 hours ago, Broker said:

Jesus Christ. I thought I was playing quite a lot and had a fair amount of shit. Why would you need that much money?

It becomes the game. If people want to become a bell billionaire it’s no more or less legit than breeding flowers or collecting a particular set. Everyone takes a different thing away and none of it affects me particularly. I find the twitch streamers with the ‘best’ of everything who do giveaways to viewers, not strange, just not my particular cup of tea. Participate in the way that makes sense for you

[Ste Pickford]

Checked my profile this morning, I'm on 150+ hours played, and I've still not seen a thunderstorm.

 

I did finally get my 5 star rating though!  Yay, gold watering can!  Is that how you get gold flowers?

 

Am I right in thinking there's no advantage to maintaining 5-star status?  I can happily remodel my island and reduce it's rating without missing out on anything?

[Tet]

I'm open.

It's raining.

Saharah's here.

Also spring train set at Nooks.

Let me catalogue if you buy it, pls.

[StumpyJohn]

Have opened up for visitors.  Leif is in the plaza, he has Camellias as the out of season shrub

Raymond is crafting Stone Lion Dog

Big stack of free recipes in the swap area, please just help yourself

 

Nothing much else going on but I have finally prettied up the rest of the right hand side of my island

I'll be afk as am working

[Rayn]

1 hour ago, Ste Pickford said:

Am I right in thinking there's no advantage to maintaining 5-star status?  I can happily remodel my island and reduce it's rating without missing out on anything?

The only upside to maintaining the 5-star rating would be that only then the Lily of the Valley flower spawns. I think it’s one flower each day but don’t know if it’s guaranteed.

[Alan Stock]

10 hours ago, sir stiff_one said:

8 million is a weeks turnip haul for novice min maxers. It’s about 4 full loads of turnips, and people are filling half their island making 20m+ Selling at just over 500. If you time travel, buy more and find a place to sell, (e.g. have a buddy who does the same until they get a good sell price then yeah).

 

People will always min max. I had a twitch stream on in the background earlier and the guy spent a straight hour buying turnips.

 

The online economy seems pretty poorly thought out from a balance point of view. Even with just this forum its easy to make big money from nips after a few weeks.

 

I started off with 80K bells investment.

• Week 1, 80K becomes about 300k.
• Week 2 invest 100K of my winnings. Get back 500K.
• Week 3 I reinvest 200K of last weeks, and get back over 1 million.
• Week 4 I re-invest that million to get 5 million, and pay off final loans, still leaving me with over a million in the bank.
• Week 5 I invested a million again, and even though I only got 3.5 million back, I just put it in the bank. Now I have savings I can dip into, and any time I need big money I can just start investing a million or two again.

 

The past 2 weeks I have only spent smaller amounts on nips because there's nothing much to spend bells on now. But you can see how easy it is to make massive money if you keep reinvesting and can guarantee a decent price thanks to the forum, or for other folks, sites like turnip exchange or just small groups of friends.

 

If I'd carried on reinvesting every time and had the time to do it, I could have had about 25 million by now without any huge effort. I can only imagine how much people have who have time travelled or opened up to the internet have made. They will have received massive tips and fees which they can reinvest if they can be arsed. The only really limiting factor is physical space to store turnips and trips made to Daisy with full inventories.

 

The problem is how do you balance an economy for both single player and online. People who aren't online will take months just to pay off the house loans, let alone start thinking about buying expensive furniture. That's kind of the spirit of the game, but at the same time I wonder if they'll start adding way more expensive things for online players to spend bells on. Thank god its not a competitive game (officially) or people would have been in uproar about the imbalance. And you can't really fix the economy now either, a patch saying "sorry guys we're taking all your bells and nerfing the shit out of the turnip market" isn't an option.

 

Not that its a big deal as is pointed out in the posts above, you can play how you want. But I for one am confused as to why people even bother making money beyond the point I have. I guess its something to aim for, and for those who want to take part in villager trading you need a crapton of bells for that too. Trust me though, one or two weeks of hauling 2 or 3 inventories worth of turnips to daisy Mae on another island is not very fun!