Animal Crossing Issues...

[YellowMickeyPonchos]

Apparently it disappears faster if you are running all the time - oops- my bad....

 

[Allison]

I also need to catch the popeyed goldfish in addition to the tuna. And of course that Coelacanth. Oh well, with fishing as in life... patience is a virtue.

Those must be the 3 toughies. I finally got a popeyed goldfish a couple of weeks ago. I don't have the Coelacanth either but since it will be around all year, I'm not as anxious about that one.

 

[YellowMickeyPonchos]

I've gotten 3 goldfish, but no popeyed. The coelacanth has gotten away from me numerous times. I'm darn certain he is the huge "bite and run" that happens during the snow.

I have everything else.

I am becoming Ishmael.....

 

[dvcfamily41801]

Apparently it disappears faster if you are running all the time - oops- my bad....

Oh no!!!!! We have hardly any snow. What do we do!!! We had no idea I am always catching a fish and running to sell it and running up and down the river to see what I can find.

 

[corky441]

don't you just hate learning about these things too late
I'm going to be pulling up flowers & replanting all weekend - blechhh

 

[QuirkyButterfly]

I wish I had know about the snow earlier I always run around like a mad woman. I have hardly any snow left so I am now making an effort to walk everywhere and I have been moving flowers around. And can I just say that walking everywhere sucks!!! It is taking me twice as long as usual to shake out the trees. I really hate not being able to run, but I really want snow and grass so I will see how long I can be good before I tear my hair out.

 

[Conolan]

If you never walk on a spot of ground again, it take 6 month to grow all of the way back. If there is a flower on that spot and you never walk on it while it is regrowing, it takes 1 month. Trees help, when there is a space with trees on either side the grass grows back faster, but not as fast as flowers. There is less wear and faster growth in the spring, with June being the best time.

There are two other ways to get grass back. Hacking your Wii and time travel. To grow your grass back you have to time travel one day at a time. For best results jump to June, start the game and then save without moving. Set the Wii clock forward a day, start the game and then save. Do this for 3-6 months worth of days then jump back to present time when you are done.

Grass wear and growth is apparently credited with each login or save, so simply jumping 6 months ahead doesn't do it. People have reported taking anywhere from 5 to 10 hours to get all of their grass back.

To prevent grass wear it is good to set down paths and run only on them. The grass wears underneath the patterns, but they will help keep you on a more narrow track. Also walking will not wear grass that is under flowers. What some people do is create flower paths that loop out from their main pattern paths, and walk through them to look for fossils, etc.

In an early interview with the developers, they said that this feature, called "Animal Tracks" will cause noticeable wear after a couple weeks of walking on the same areas, like the path from your house to Nooks (animals don't wear out the grass). After a month or so there would be noticeable tracks along the routes that you walk the most. What happened was that one month was enough time to make deserts out of the towns belonging to people who like to play more than 15 minutes a day.

There is an uproar about this, and petitions to Nintendo, etc. Hopefully they will send out a patch or something that will make the feature work like it was intended. There is a post on another forum where someone asked if just walking on grass made it die. There were many pages of responses like this-

If you walk on your grass it will die.
If you talk about your grass it will die.
If you think about your grass it will die.
If you walk on your real grass your Wii grass will die
etc


Ian

 

[GottaGetToDisney!]

If you walk on your grass it will die.
If you talk about your grass it will die.
If you think about your grass it will die.
If you walk on your real grass your Wii grass will die
etc Ian

That is too funny!

My kids run around the town as if it's on fire- and there's nothing I've been able do to stop them. I've noticed the snow disappearing, but it hasn't really alarmed me. Our town is just sort of dirty and muddy looking. It's our own slum. I do know that come spring I will be upset if they kill the grass. I will have to have a serious discussion with them about walking through our town!

Open question: Can anyone please explain to me how to catch a mole cricket??? It's the only bug I've been unable to catch and it's driving me insane! I don't even know how to locate one, let alone catch it!

By the by, I've caught about 7 or 8 Tuna- didn't realize they were supposed to be difficult to come by! I've made a lot of bells with those, but I finally donated one to the Museum yesterday, much to the delight of Blathers.

Gotta Get To Disney!

 

[YellowMickeyPonchos]

That is too funny!

Yep - that's why I married him.....

Open question: Can anyone please explain to me how to catch a mole cricket??? It's the only bug I've been unable to catch and it's driving me insane! I don't even know how to locate one, let alone catch it!

Gotta Get To Disney!

It's easiest to teach when you are in someone's town and you can tag team the little bugger. (Have we exchanged codes yet? )

If you aren't on wireless, here's how. If you are walking along and hear a little buzzing noise. STOP. You need to map out the range of the sound. The little bugger is underground below you in that range. Start digging holes in that area and filling them back in - no rhyme or reason. Eventually the LB (little bugger - do you see how I really feel about him - so will you....) will pop out of the hole and start running. He'll run for a longer distance than the centipede - except when there's a body of water near him - then he will be a leming and suicide dive right into the water or off a cliff. When he jumps out of his hole, grab your net immediately. Best way to determine range - click on LB (that will range you) and then click on yourself to trigger the net.

Hopefully this will help!

 

[QuirkyButterfly]

If you walk on your grass it will die.
If you talk about your grass it will die.
If you think about your grass it will die.
If you walk on your real grass your Wii grass will die
etc


Ian

I really really hate grass now. It is a pity that when it snows the ground doesn't get covered in snow that stays there. Same thing with rain in spring. I hope they fix it.

On the upside I just caught my second Tuna and I have so far caught 6 Stringfish so I am really happy. I just need to catch a Popeyed Goldfish and a Coelacanth and I have all the fish available in January.

 

[parrotheadlois]

anybody got good turnip prices???

 

[QuirkyButterfly]

anybody got good turnip prices???

Nope but I am in Australia and so on Sunday for all of you American players it is Monday here. So if my nooks is buying for more than the turnip lady is selling for then we could just run back and forth between towns making money. I think this would work without ruining any turnips. Somebody let me know if this theory is right. The only problem would be finding a time to play as I work for most of monday. Maybe I could get up really really early in the morning.

Everybody think on it.

 

[QuirkyButterfly]

Ok I have a question that I am sure Nancy or Ian will know the answer to but anyone else chime in. I have been looking at AC boards on gamefaq and there are people opening up their towns to go and sell turnips. Now the question is if I go over there will my turnips rot because they will be a day behind me and I really don't want to waste all of my turnips. I hope I can do this because otherwise visiting people will be very difficult as I will in most cases be a day ahead.

Thanks for your help.

 

[disneym2m]

Ok I have a question that I am sure Nancy or Ian will know the answer to but anyone else chime in. I have been looking at AC boards on gamefaq and there are people opening up their towns to go and sell turnips. Now the question is if I go over there will my turnips rot because they will be a day behind me and I really don't want to waste all of my turnips. I hope I can do this because otherwise visiting people will be very difficult as I will in most cases be a day ahead.

Thanks for your help.

I am not positive. But if you go back a day to sell your turnips it should be okay. But again I am not positive. I know that when I time travel back and then forward the turnips spoil. The turnips don't spoil if you go forward a day as long as it is before Sunday's new turnip selling date. I went back in time last Sunday because I missed the buying time, but then went forward to the actual time and no turnips spoiled. Again it was on Sunday and I went ahead in time on Sunday. I would assume that if you went back in time and sold them, they wouldn't spoil, but again if you went back in time the game might think that it is the next week. Say it is Wednesday your time and you go back to Tuesday in someone's else's town, the game may think that it is Tuesday of the following week and spoil. But then again, maybe there is something in the game that lets the game know that it is still Wednesday your time and not pay attention to the time of the town you are visiting. Now Nancy came to my town and I had it set to Sunday's date. She returned back to her town and it was Saturday's date and she lost the turnips she bought from my town.

I guess we need to try this and then share the information. My comment is not exact and there is a lot of open ends to it.

I know this WAS NO HELP AT ALL.

 

[YellowMickeyPonchos]

Going back in time makes turnips spoil. This might have been designed so that if you find out that your town's prices peaked yesterday, you can't go back and sell then.

However turnips won't spoil in your pocket, so if you go straight from buying in a future town to selling in a past town without dropping them you will be ok. Ours spoiled when we bought in a Sunday town, came home to Saturday and then stored them. On the next save and restore they spoiled.

 

[Madi100]

Going back in time makes turnips spoil. This might have been designed so that if you find out that your town's prices peaked yesterday, you can't go back and sell then.

However turnips won't spoil in your pocket, so if you go straight from buying in a future town to selling in a past town without dropping them you will be ok. Ours spoiled when we bought in a Sunday town, came home to Saturday and then stored them. On the next save and restore they spoiled.

Mine spoiled in my pockets. I don't remember if I was going forward, backwards, or where, but they spoiled.

 

[KyPrincessJamie]

Hi guys i'm not new to animal crossing but I haven't posted here before, my nooks has turnips for 437 but only for a bit longer. My brother is good at time traveling and getting them high.

 

[QuirkyButterfly]

Ok I have a question that I am sure Nancy or Ian will know the answer to but anyone else chime in. I have been looking at AC boards on gamefaq and there are people opening up their towns to go and sell turnips. Now the question is if I go over there will my turnips rot because they will be a day behind me and I really don't want to waste all of my turnips. I hope I can do this because otherwise visiting people will be very difficult as I will in most cases be a day ahead.

Thanks for your help.

I decided to try the theory out and went to someones town on a saturday while I was in sunday. I took turnips and sold them to their Nook and there was no problem. No rotting turnips at all. I am also about 1 million richer as well

I am a very happy person.

 

[KyPrincessJamie]

You can set your town to sunday and then go sell in another town I have been doing it for days lol

 

[KyPrincessJamie]

I've been playing around with this and I seem to have goodluck with every
3rd thursday of the month I'm getting high turnip prices. Anyone else time travel and try this?