"it was designed to be played a little bit at a time" me having just played for 6 hours straight...

Arlo: “It’s not like some games where you have to grind hundreds of hours to get somewhere” Cherry Blossom Recipes: Allow us to introduce ourselves!

Imagine if The Sims community cared this much about cheating. They’d all have an aneurysm.

I told myself that I'd never time travel but when I needed to move ALL the buildings in my island(except the Able Sisters) I needed to time travel. I didn't want to stretch out almost 3 weeks to wait for each building to move...

“Time traveling works for those of us who have awkward life schedules that don’t meet up with the games time limits, but still want to enjoy the game.” Is an example I’ve heard that I appreciate. It bugs me that people get so hurt over such small thing

Me: I would never even dream of time travelling Me: Starts Fishing Game: Here, have another egg Me: ...Why does God test me?

Animal crossing is one of those games that you can play however you want, and it doesn’t matter if you play it a different way than someone else

The answer is: *drumroll* The way you enjoy it, that's the way you should play.

The subtle flex when arlos editor caught an oarfish.

I'm just tired of seeing all these damn eggs everywhere

Is it just me or do weeds in acnh look kinda good--xd

Nintendo said themselves to “enjoy the game at your own pace”

Note: Turnips only spoil when you travel *back* in time. Wouldn’t risk it though.

Honestly, i'm more jealous of streamers more than anything. They get recipes and star fragments from their subscribers meanwhile there's me with a house filled with recipe I already have :/

I think the major problem is that shops and villagers follow real life schedules, so if you work a 9-5 job or are in school, you have to wait until the weekend to do anything. And because the game follows real time, once the villagers are all asleep all you can do is farm, which removes most of the charm of the game and just isn’t very fun. I found the early bird and night owl in New Leaf really useful but that wasn’t available from the start.

I admit it, I do time travel- it just makes it more enjoyable for me because I’m impatient lol...I think people should play the game however they want as long as it makes the game more enjoyable. I honestly think people overthink it, the point of the game is to enjoy yourself and relax. Just my personal opinion though! :))

I often feel tempted to time travel but then I remember that the whole 'my home is a tent'-phase of the game was over before I knew it & I wanna enjoy every aspect of it to its fullest. Also, it's just nice to have something to look forward to. Even if it's something small and insignificant such as a new structure in a game.

Mostly, I save time travel for when I feel like I'm "done" with the game, which typically occurs a few years after getting the game. I didn't cheat in New Leaf until about two months before New Horizons came out, and that was mostly just time travelling to get the shops open when I woke up too early. My most egregious cheat was skipping a month to get to spring because I was so. tired. of. snow. But I'm all for letting people play a game the way they get the most enjoyment out of it.

"It's your game. You play it how you like." Mr. Resetti would beg to differ.

when i see how advanced other people’s towns are, I get really jealous, like, in my eyes, if someone else has an amazing town, my self esteem gets low, so I skip time to be able to get that self fulfillment,, i guess

This reminds me of a time in New Leaf when I visited a dream town. In it, nearly every square was covered in golden roses! Of course, me, being new to Animal Crossing at the time, thought that this person's town was legit. And this started my journey to turning my town gold! It wasn't until recently that I even considered the fact that it might be fake, but after 5 years, I've covered around 30-40% of my town in black roses, so I got pretty far, I think! Not sure how relevant to the video this is, but thought I'd share anyway!

As someone new to AC, I was VERY confused by how far people were on Twitter and KZfaq and definitely thought I was doing something wrong. Like... why does my island still look pretty much deserted while some people have full fledged cities going on? Am I seriously missing something? Then I realized time traveling was a thing, and just went back to focusing on my island and ignoring what other people were doing.

I wish the Pokémon community cared this much about cheating.

(TLDR at the end, as well as a conclusion for a more thought out tldr) My experience with time travelling has been all over the place. I've played two games, new leaf and new horizons. In new leaf at first i NEVER time traveled, this was easier because it was back in high school when i had a good schedule, i could play after school, in between classes, or whatever. I lived like this for a long time and i think honestly as someone whose played with TT in many different forms, this is the best one (or the next one i will mention) Then when i started to have a less normal schedule i found that my shops and things were never open, i was only available to play games REALLY late so even if i just collected stuff i wouldn't be awake, or around, to sell them when the shops were open. This was when i went into a form of time travelling that i support and encourage especially for people who have different life schedules, I would have my time set to about 6 hours in the past so that when i was on at say midnight, it would still be 6pm, that way i could still go to the shops and such even though it was so late. I find this sort of time travelling not really immersion breaking, its fine and i don't think really ruins anything, if anything it helps those people who might not be on a typical schedule as others, like if you work late or have things to do all day and can only really play past 10pm when everything is closed. Now in NH i've done multiple different types of TT I TT'd the first day i got it to skip to the second day so i could open my airport as me and my girlfriend desperately wanted to see each other and such so i honestly think something like that is fine. I think them locking the social aspect of the game behind a 24 hour time wall wasn't wise or needed, especially right now with all the social isolation going on people just wanna connect as much as possible. After awhile of playing normally, i had everything without time travelling (other than that first day) I had everything unlocked and upgraded, from nooks shop to the museum, all the new villagers and the able shop, even my house was fully upgraded, i even officially had terraforming. This was where i think i messed up. I purchased NFC cards to get the villagers into my town that i wanted (this isn't the mistake, i think this is fine if people really want this kind of play style) The mistake i made was once i found out you had to invite every amiibo to your town 3 days in a row i ended up breaking and doing it all at once by time travelling. I didn't really see the harm at the time, i wanted my villagers that i payed for and i figured i had everything anyways so i went for it. The reason i feel like this was a mistake was because i didn't get the satisfaction of getting each villager, it was just one day i had these 10 villagers and the next day i had all my dream villagers at once. It broke a certain feeling of immersion and i feel like i didn't get to bond with my animals if i had done it day by day. I think if there wasn't a 3 day wait for each villager i wouldn't have done this, if it was one day or even just two i might not have done it but the 3 day wait was agonizing. This was kinda where the dam sorta broke? a bit ago me and my friends got into stalk market stuff, we'd buy from whichever friend had the best price that sunday, and then search the turnip websites and discords for a 500+ price, and then wait in a queue with tons of people to try and get in to sell. This is all well and good, no time travelling just a lot of waiting and frustration, especially for someone like me who has spotty internet. The issue with all this was that a lot of places charge an entrance fee or various things from money, to NMT to gold nuggets, and this was on top of the problem that half the time we'd join queues on the website and wait over an hour only for the island to close down and we'd be stuck looking for a new place (this happened to me about 5 times one day, it broke my spirit, especially because i basically do nothing while waiting because i don't wanna queue in and have my inventory full of things and scramble to empty it and run to the airport and such since they can kick you from the queue) This was where my friend suggested us time travelling to make money for our own little community. I set my game back to Sunday, and trapped daisy in a small area near my airport, and then another person in our group TT'd until they found a price for 500+ and we would go from my island to theirs over and over. At the end i ended up with 40 million which i split 50/50 with my girlfriend who wasn't available to do it. This i think ruined a lot of things about this game for me and i high key regret it so much. I no longer catch bugs or fish without much intention like trying to find certain ones to donate or make into models with flick. I don't need to even buy turnips anymore or bother with anything that is money worth. Thats a huge drive of the game after all, making money. I had finished upgrading my house already so now i just sit with my 20mil in my abd and just use it to buy clothing/furniture. Its not too terrible as i spend a lot of time decorating my town and breeding flowers or visiting my friends, i just worry about what will happen once i have all the flowers i want, my towns the way i want it, and my friends play it less and less. But i know other people with different experiences For example, my girlfriend time traveled a lot to gain money because to her, the making money part was not what she enjoys about AC, she likes dressing up, decorating, and everything. She's wearing something new every time i see her, and she enjoys moving her rooms around and finding every cute possible item. and my sister stayed back in march when it ended because she cares so much about the critterpiedia she wanted a string fish and she couldn't catch one even though she had been trying about 10 times longer then i had before i caught 2, she felt this was fine and never broke her immersion because for her, the completion of things like that are what drives her in game. In conclusion, I think over use of time travelling is going to ruin the game for you, in most cases. I think TTing to say, have a different time then you are actually in (like 6 hours in the past) so you can have shops open if you work all day and can only play really late, or perhaps if you missed something you find really important that wont be back in game for months or possible a year, i think thats okay. Its in small doses and sometimes life gets in the way and prevents us from participating in things on a specific day (like bunny day or the fishing tourney, ect.ect.) I think once you push past this is when it becomes less and less fun and "ruins" the game for you. I honestly think i might try giving away some of my money to friends who weren't involved in our insider trading because if i just go back to having like 1 mil in my bank like before maybe i will go back to enjoying everything a bit more? TLDR: Little to no TTing is the best as someone whose tried every form, but at the end of the day no one is stopping you especially if its making you enjoy the game that much more. It's your 60 bucks at the end of the day, do with it what you will.

I’m playing the game legit, but these eggs are getting in my nerves specially the Water ones 😤

This makes me think of how differently I play games now from when I was a kid. As a kid, animal crossing time traveling was fun because playing god was more fun for me and seeing how boundaries in the game worked and what I could push. Now I find the difficulty of "oh shit i missed the stringfish! Gotta remember it next year" More fun. Same thing with sims 2, id always use motherlode and had fun playing god and making the biggest home. Now I like starting from like 200 dollars. I'd say I like that the option is there, since it caters to different ways people enjoy playing. Coming from someone who has played in both ways over the years.

I’ve been time traveling in animal crossing since i played the game cube version and I will continue to play it that way. That’s how I like to play it and I don’t feel bad about it 🤷🏻‍♂️

You can’t cheat in a game where there is no winning or losing, and the “whole point of the game” is to play however you want

As a person who tries to time travel in absolute moderation, let me give my 2 cents on the first of your problems: *Not enough time:* As a person who I assume has played animal crossing a lot, you should understand this one even more. I wake up every day at 5-6am for work, and come home by 2-4pm and have to be in bed by about 10. There are bugs and fish that are rare and spawn at 9pm, or 6am. Due to my schedule I have little time to actually catch these things. You can day "day off" but if youre telling me I have to dedicate a day off to be up and spend it trying to catch something when I could do it other wise when I just get home from work and am relaxing... that kind of cold. Now, due to this event, and seasonal DIY's and materials this has come even more to the forefront. Its not always about TT'ing months, but sometimes just a few hours. Just to place the clock a bit in a better spot to enjoy the game you want to. I agree that it does take out some of the fun when you speed run all the months to catch every bug and fish and all the furnitire and just be done with a game that should take a year or more in just a few weeks. Thats a fair arguement and its also why I dont want to personally TT. Though, some people bought AC to play now, not forever. They want to beat and shelf it, and if thats what they want who are we to argue. Personally, the only time I TT'd was because I wanted to move some houses and I couldnt really get a feel for what i wanted to terraform or place so I moved 6 houses or so just to be able to open the canvas. Otherwise, I'd have to have been active and waited a week before I could even start thinking about what I was gonna Teraform. That isnt cheating the game, I literally didnt even buy from shops just checked in on villagers to ensure they werent leaving, and when people want to TT like that I feel like it shouldnt be considered an issue.

Personally, as long as you aren't affecting another person's experience with the game, I say you do you. I myself am not really one to time travel, but honestly, I'll respect the way you play if you respect the way I do too.

“We still got people accusing us” *tries to find comments*

I got a weed removal commercial during this video, and all I could imagine was Arlo bolting onto my lawn and just ripping at the grass.

"Your rights are limitless, until they come into conflict with the rights of others."

The only time I felt I needed to "cheat" was when I was showing my friend what makes the game fun. I handed my Switch to him and he messed around a bit, but the daily chores were already done and all stores were closed, it was hard to show him what makes the game fun when there isn't a lot to look at. I didn't want to mess with time but I didn't want him leaving on a bad note either. I don't plan on messing with time again though.

The important question is “did you have fun”? Yes? *Then who gives a sh*t how you played it* Cuz I don’t. Just have fun guys!

just a correction: your turnips will not spoil if you jump forward within the week you bought, they will only spoil if you time travel backward :)

I put in the work in new leaf. I did the slow everyday play for over a year in new leaf. So I use time traveling to play the game my way. And I’m a single mom and college student so I use the clock to play certain times when I have the time instead of playing during the real time when I have work and a son to take care of. This is my personal opinion and reasons why I time travel.

Let’s all just take a moment to appreciate that AC isn’t tied to a central server...yet.

The only reason I really do time travel is because I play late at night and I hate it when I can’t do anything like able sisters nooks cranny and my villagers go to sleep

I love to decorate, I want my island to look like a city, and if I were to do all of that legitimately it would take YEARS to achieve that goal. I'd probably lose interest in the game entirely before I even got close. I don't want this to feel like some clash of clans upgrade system I want it to be my dream island. This large amount of unnecessary waiting makes this feel more like a pay to win app than an actual game

When we think time travel is cheating, we don't realize that there are some people who modify the game to generate bells and furniture and sell them online for real money. I feel that time traveling in comparison is far less cheating now...

I have a friend who's having trouble getting the 30 iron nuggets. I offered to give him some of mine, but he refused, saying he wanted to get them the hard way.

I don’t think people realize even with time travel things take absolutely forever to accomplish. Except in the cases of new materials, you don’t jump to the next day and get something immediately. Most people time travel because they want to keep playing, or collect everything. ITS NOT A CHORE AND SHOULDN’T BE A CHORE TO PLAY. I hate that view of DAILY CHORES. We play animal crossing to build a community, not endlessly walk around an island chopping trees. Play how you want stop telling others what’s wrong and right. You do you, but just know when you post about cheating a line is being crossed. 😂😂😂😂 You can’t cheat at a game if you can’t actually win.

i think the argument boils down to two different sides: quantity vs quality there are some people who just want to be able to do everything they can as quickly as they can and have completion satisfaction that way, and there are people who think that completion is more about devoting time and effort into things it's the difference between someone who speedruns minecraft and someone who spends 1000 hours in a survival world making a city the only exception in the animal crossing scenario is that you're pulling the wool over the game's eyes by changing the switch's clock to enjoy the game how you want to, and while i'd never do it, i wouldn't criticize anyone for doing it

The year is 2120, Arlo still hasn’t dropped animal crossing and hasn’t seen the outside world in a long while.

Pokemon players cheat: Community sleeps Animal Crossing players cheat: IT'S TIME FOR A CRUSADE!

I personally only time skip one day at a time, only to move houses, and only time skip sometimes after I’ve done everything I possibly could in that day. I personally like to binge and waiting an entire day for something isn’t really fun for me.

my ADHD screams at me to time travel, so i do lol i always have in every single AC game. I can assure you that if you time travel a few days within a single real day, youre not cheating yourself out of much. accumulating furniture and DIYs without trading is still a tedious process. If its cheating to forward a day so my renovated house is ready, then oh well. i still have to play and work to get items to fill that new room so it's still fun to me

I feel like New Horizons is the most indifferent Nintendo has felt about time travelers and item duplicators. The idea behind New Horizons was escaping to your own island paradise and shaping your deserted island into whatever paradise YOU had in mind. Whether you time traveled to make an elaborate tropical vacation home or played the game one day at a time, it's completely up to you. Even if it feels like you've done everything there is to do, the game acts as a vacation escape from reality whenever you want. Some people don't want to escape to a tropical island every day, and that's okay. Just go back to it whenever the mood strikes you.

Doesn't bother me when people time travel, but yeah when you post your screenshots of a fully upgraded house and colorful tools 2 days after release on Twitter, that is when I get annoyed. Scrolling down my timeline only to have visual spoilers instantly injected into my brain. Maybe hold off for a week or two. Especially annoying when you post time travel spoilers to Twitter a few days after release and then cherry pick angry replies to whine about how the animal crossing community is toxic (Alpharad)

I share a switch and its so annoying when the other person time travelers

I’d probably only time travel so stores open from renovation more quickly, *but I can’t because parental controls* Edit: I have gotten off parental controls and can now TT

I work 7 days a week, during the day, and I sleep at night. So what I do is jump forward or backward a few hours here and there so I can catch the bugs and fish I'd otherwise miss because of my schedule. Like when I'm playing in the morning during my coffee time, I'll roll the clock back a couple hours so I can catch a snapping turtle. In the evening, I'll roll it back again so I can get the late morning to mid afternoon stuff, like the Madagascar Moth. Other than that, I don't do any time hopping. I want to collect all the critters, and I plan on doing it as legitimately as possible. But if I didn't do a bit of time jumping, there's a lot I'd miss out on.

I wanna time travel past the bunny day event so I can stop getting eggs in my pond.

I agree with some of this, even being a time traveller myself they designed the game to be slow progress, and I can respect that. I never wanna skip too far (say, seasons) because then it DOES feel like im cheating the system, but for getting rid of villagers, keeping shops open, etc? I dont see why it's such a big deal

I'm getting my own Nintendo Switch soon with Animal Crossing and it revolves around time travel.

I do some light time traveling. Being an essential worker, if I played legitimately I would only be able to play Animal Crossing while everyone is asleep, all the stores are closed and I'd never see the island during the day.

My little cousin time traveled one day to open the airport early so we could see each other, but that was it.

My experience with time travel is a little different. I waited till I completed the "main story campaign" basically I waited till I got 3 stars. I feel like the late game content in this game kinda sucks, and I got pretty bored and the best way to continue enjoying the game I spent my money on was time traveling so that I could speed certain things up. It allowed me to maintain having fun without riuning the experience. I got about 100 ish hours before I ever time traveled.

I only use time travel for things that take ages such as kicking certain villagers out

On the "perfect for people with little time" aspect. I have had times where I can play video games for 4-5 hours at a time, but only every week or two. This makes games like animal crossing unappealing, because I don't have the capability to play them daily. So I can understand people in that situation time traveling.

Personally, I do not like time traveling. I like how I can go at my own pace with finishing everything. I love the feeling of being excited to wake up in the morning for a new store. I feel like I can wait for things. Plus, if I finished the game quick and time travelled, I'd be fine with the game. I'd just be so bored! I would want to reset. But I understand people who do it for different reasons, like one of my friends only time travels to help people who need bells.

No, but it is wrong to have light mode on switch.

all i can say is this: does me time travelling in my own island affect you in any way? no?

I've time traveled sometimes, but only backwards. I only do this if there is an event I missed, like Daisy Mae selling turnips, mainly because my sleep schedule is trash, and I can't wake up earlier that 10 am to save my life

I ALMOST cheated the other day. I missed the String Fish and I was like "Is anyone really going to know?" Then I thought: "What if my wife finds out I cheated Animal Crossing? What if my villagers turn against me? Can I go to jail for this? Nah I better not do it." So in conclusion, I will be waiting till December to catch a String Fish.

I love your energy, keep up the enthusiastic content!

I time-traveled once to see the meteor shower because it happened when I was asleep.

To me the answer is: "It doesn't matter" Animal Crossing isn't exaclty a competitive game, its more like a toybox, and criticizing someone over it its like saying "You can't build a Golden Gate using the Big Ben LEGO set!".

Gaming community: "Let people play however they want" *someone picks easy mode in a video game* Also gaming community: no no no no no no no!!!!!!

Animal Crossing is just too wholesome, and I can't even play music with bad language while playing it because I just feel too bad lol

My biggest issue with time travelers is that it completely destroys the multiplayer economy for the game. Non time traveled items are worth much less than time traveled items, many resources that are rarer to obtain without time travel become much less of an accomplishment with time travel, and inflation hits hard due to near infinite bells and nook miles with various time travel exploits.

All I have to say about Anima Crossing is: "Death to chocolate eggs!"

I've always time travelled in Animal Crossing and I still have fun with it. I play for months at a time and still find enjoyment in it. It wasn't until New Horizons that I was crucified for doing it online and it blew my mind how many people even cared that I was doing it to begin with. I dont post spoilers about it, when I stream I always give a fair warning that I am showing off the "end game" content and yet people still try to tell me how to play a game I paid for. In the end, as long as you're having fun and not being a jerk about it why does it bother people? I've seen rude people on both sides but I just wanna play my game man. It doesn't matter.

im really scared to time travel, if i time travel forward and then back to regular time and never do it again, will i still be able to celebrate my birthday with the villagers when my birthday comes or will it ruin everything for the future? :(

I don’t time travel. But as a night shift nurse and busy mom of 3 , I could potentially see myself going back in time if I missed something special. Love this game.

I only time travel to earlier in the day. I've been working 1 to 10 almost every day (Walmart) and with all this coronavirus stress, my sleep schedule has been off for a while.

Okay, so here’s the thing. I work retail, I don’t have a lot of time to play every single day and sometimes when I do have time it’s midnight, the shops are closed and I can’t do certain things. Sometimes I’m so exhausted I can’t even be bothered to turn on my switch. So yes, I cheat sometimes because I occasionally don’t have it in me to play. I don’t go forward in time, I don’t break the game with my traveling, I just play days I missed because it’s very unappealing to me that I can’t get my daily miles because I worked for the whole day and when I got home I don’t even have the energy to eat dinner, let alone play animal crossing. I understand why some people are against it, I hope people understand why I do it.

What’s your guy’s opinion on buying bells? I’ve been thinking of doing it and it seems logical but idk where to get them

honestly i feel like huge acnh youtubers add to this problem. Some of them have amazing islands without TT-ing, and people wanna be like them. But then when people start TT-ing because they wanna be like their fav youtuber, the youtubers act like the just committed an awful crime. I always got discouraged when i watch those big youtubers, because they have amazing islands somehow without cheating. THEN I REALIZED THAT THEY CAN GET GIFTS FROM SUBSCRIBERS IN THE MAIL AND I TELL YOU I WAS TICKED CAUSE THEY R GETTING LIKE 30 GIFTS A DAY, and they are calling US cheaters (also btw this isn't directed toward u, i'm talking about the youtubers directly based on animal crossing)

I don’t time travel for fear of ruining my experience, but also for the fact that I don’t feel comfortable changing my system’s clock

Time-traveling is Animal Crossing Creative mode, not-time-traveling is animal crossing survival mode

I know that no one is going to see this, but I just wanted to throw in my two cents. This has obviously been the biggest Animal Crossing release and it's brought in a massive amount of new players. Nowadays, with social media being so prevalent and internet connection speeds allowing for easier online play, the community has exploded from being as niche and quiet as it used to be. There were a lot less things to do in the older games, and I feel like people understood AC was more of a slow burn game; something to take your time with. If you wanted to time travel before, it literally affected no one. There were always the goals of completing your museum, holiday events, achieving a perfect town, and trying to acquire certain items and villagers, but things were more limited. With the implementation of crafting, NM rewards, terraforming, and incredibly expanded storage, it's become a more goal-oriented game, instead of just a sim. My introduction to AC was City Folk for the Wii. I don't remember how or why we ended up getting it, but I honestly never put that much time into it. My mom was hooked, though. She played for probably about ten years. She would literally play every single day, she had multiple towns because she would either run out of things to do and start a new one, or start immensely disliking something about how her town generated after realizing it was an annoyance hundreds of hours down the road. She would time travel, but it literally affected no one but her, because she loved working towards a perfect town. You can't change Animal Crossing time mechanics. I feel it lives and dies by the real-time clock, because that's how the series was designed. It's what sets it apart. For example, I could never get into Harvest Moon because the clock is accelerated and if you miss out on events or objectives tied to the fictional calendar, you're just SOL and have to start a new game or just live with it. I'm literally sitting on the fence when it comes to time travel in Animal Crossing. It's how some people like to play. With massive social media presence nowadays, it can ruin a lot of surprises for people and can give them a fear of missing out. I think the main thing it ruins is not letting newcomers learn and enjoy the game at their own pace. I want them to understand that you don't HAVE TO speed through the game. You don't HAVE TO get every recipe, item, bug, etc. right away. You don't HAVE TO have every objective completed in a single month. Animal Crossing is meant to be a bridge into a second life and played over a fairly long period of time, but I feel like New Horizons has become competitive in the way that we compete with each other in real life. I don't blame time travel. I blame social media.

When ACNH came out I just started nursing school and missed almost everything in the first year...after December I wanted to go back and build back up the diy’s I missed out on since I stopped working full time and being a full time student. ACNH is so relaxing I play it after I study from 1pm to 11pm with 2 one hour breaks. So all I am saying is really don’t down others who did not have the time to enjoy the game when it came out but still want the diy and are just trying to play catch-up.

Arlo: “Your turnips will spoil if you so much as touch the clock.” Villager: “Hmm, I don’t really like where this clock is. I should move it somewhere else.” Villager: “Wait, what! What’s going on with my turnips!?”

2:00 Quick correction: the turnips only spoil if you *rewind* time; any forward travel is fair game so long as you don't hit the next Sunday (which would spoil turnips without time travel anyway). Not sure if you point this out later or whether there's already a billion people who have said the same thing, but I think it's worth noting.

on my first day of new horizons i was walking around the island and did the beginner tasks and my friend was like "skip time so i can give u a microwave" but uh... *it was 10pm*

No. Singleplayer games, you should play them however it makes you the most happy. It’s okay to cheat.

"Delayed satisfaction is the name of the game" No it's not, the name of the game is Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Yep, for me, time traveling spoils the point of looking forward to what you have to do the next day.

I have a question. Is it cheating if you go to another persons island to buy or sell turnips if they had time traveled.

The only "cheat" I've done is transfer a ton of stuff onto my friend's island temporarily because I got a new switch and don't want to lose my stuff.

Arlo: “Just enjoy the game you want to.” The Media: Arlo says that anyone who time travels in ACNH is a big stinky person while burning down the homes of time travelers

in short: is it cheating yes is it wrong because of that no have fun

I'm a time traveler and I can tell you why I do it with one word: addiction I am addicted to animal crossing, I cannot put it down, and i most certainly do not want to wait a whole day to move my building because I want to work on a new project. I dont have much else to do and animal crossing is currently my comfort game. I know there's other things I can do but I'm a horrible multi-tasker and I can't get things done when I do. I started building something on my island and haven't dug up fossils or done my daily rocks or anything in days. I need. To get. It done. I know animal crossing was meant to be a slow paced, play an hour or less a day kind of game, but the timing of the release was too perfect and it's all I have to do

I haven't really seen this opinion made here yet, so I want to share incase others feel the same way! I play Animal Crossing for the design aspect of it. The fact that you can now terraform is absolutly game changing to me, and has offered me so many different possibilities. I often will have a different Island layout every 4-5 weeks, and TT does enable me to accomplish this faster (I can move houses, shops out of the way quicker so I have a blank canvas). I love that these DIYs make items so much more precious, because seeing people react to these items theyve never seen before is amazing. The cuteness and the ability to select villagers based on whatever theme I decide for my island also appeals to me, I have always enjoyed being able to customise Animal Crossing whichever way I want, and thats why I personally Time Travel, and I think others might feel the same way too! Again, this is just a choice, and I love seeing how excited my friend was recently to finally get Nooks Cranny, but for me the game is about creating these unique islands with creative ideas! But play however you want!

You hit the nail on the head about how I’ve always felt about time travel. Even if it was about something small like not having to be in game right at midnight on New Year’s Eve to be there for the fireworks when you probably want to be out with friends or family. A friend of mine actually has what I think is the perfect amount of time traveling. He’s up more at night, but wants to experience stuff during the day. So he just set his town to be about 10-12 hours earlier

The day after the game came out, a bunch of my friends decided to all go online together. My sister had just gotten the game and didn't start it yet. In order to play online, you have to wait a day first. I told her to go back in time one day before creating her island and that allowed her to join in on the fun. Just a small exploit because we're all super busy people working to become doctors, pilots, or psychologists so it was nice to get together as friends for the first time since we enjoyed Club Penguin or Roblox back in the day.

I time traveled ONCE just so I could escape bunny day

You can time travel if you want or not. play how you want or not. I just started time travelling, and so far I kicked off 2 ugly villagers and replaced them with 2 cute villagers, and grew a cherry orchard within an hour to an hour and a half.