I brought my GameCube home, and my Mom saw me playing A.C., and for the first time she actually wanted to play a video game. She went so far as to say she finally understood how one can spend hours on end playing video games.
Then she ruined the moment by saying that it was just like playing with dolls...
"Tonight, I left a ticket for Jerry Lawler to come down here, sit in the crowd and watch his son wrestle. But you know what? He's not here. I forgot - every Wednesday night he likes to hang out at the local high school with a fistful of candies!" -- Brian Lawler, 17 July 2002
Originally posted by JaguarHell, I don't even own the game (you guys are making me want it a lot!), but I believe that if you go to Nook with whatever item you want to trade, and put in the person's name and town name, Nook will give you a password. Give the password to the person you were going to trade with, and they take the password to Nook, and Nook gives them the goods.
-Jag
I've gotta get a new job, so I can finally afford a GC.
How on earth can that work? There's not phone line for the information to go through or anything. I just don't understand.
This game sounds awesome, but I'm afraid it would forever dominate my destiny if I bought it.
"Oh, i'll never understand this emptiness...but I'll never really try and understand, I guess." - Whiskeytown, Sit and Listen to the Rain
I think that every single possible item in the game has a password associated with it. It's encrypted somehow with the town/character name as the key. To have it decrypted, you give this password to the person who's town/character name matches the one you gave Nook, They give it to him, and boom, they get the item. Data is sent in the form of an encrypted message, and only to the person it's meant for. The password is the item, the item is the password, basically.
Fuzzy Logic put it quite nicely. Every item in the game has some corresponding code. That code is then slightly modified by the Town/Person name that you're sending it to. Now what I'm wondering is if there's some anti-cheat protection in here. Cause if it just works with the town/person encryption, you could just take the same password back to Nook again and again to get the same items, even though no one sent it. The easiest way to prevent this would be to add another layer (or more) of encryption. Such as having the date/time of the sender add more letters to the password. This way, you can only use the password given to you once, because even if the exact same person sent you the exact same item, the password would change a little bit each time, and your game would only let you use each password once.
-Jag
So has anyone used it? Is there any anti-cheat protection?
"You gotta hate somebody before this is over. Them, me, it doesn't matter."
"Hate, who do I hate? You tell me."
"Who do you love?"
-Wintermute to Case in William Gibson's Neuromancer
I think the protection is a "You can only use each password once per 24 hour period" thing. Which is good enough 'cause like to get a whole bunch quick, you'd need to set your clock ahead each time you wanted it (which would be a big pain in the ass), or just wait 24 hours to keep getting it. Anti-cheating by way of being big pain in the arse. But, I'm not completely sure, I don't have the game yet and I only played it for 4 hours when I had the machine at my house. I have yet to try any item trading.
I've planted a couple shovels in the glowing spots, but I think they keep getting trampled, because none make it past the sapling phase.
Successfully have both an apple & cherry tree growing, in addition to the default peach trees.
I actually dug up a 10,000 bell bag last night. That's the 1st one of those I've seen. Usually it's just 1000 bells.
Matthew: You would've loved it, David. A week in a foreign country, strange people, strange customs... Dave: Oh, I know what you mean. I've been to Canada.
Originally posted by Guru ZimWhen do you get the shovel? Will it be obvious? I already screwed up an earlier shovel tree attempt by digging it up too early.
Once the shovel tree is fully grown you shake it and the Golden Shovel will fall out. With the Golden Shovel you can....
**SPOILERS**
Dig in random spots and get 100 bell bags, digging in marked spots with net you rarer items, and it's used on the GBA island to get rare Island only items...
**End Spoilers**
"You won't see that on Everybody Loves Raymond!" -J.R. after Trish gets pasted with a chair
Originally posted by asteroidboyHas anyone fully stocked a wing of the museum yet? (I'm just curious to see what happens)
Also, any luck getting a golden shovel?? Anyone??
- Asteroid boy (who's got 3/4 of the wrestling ring built in his basement.....)
I sorta have the whole ring built, but it's all nuetral corners. Looks fine, though.
And I'm two fossils away from filling that wing. (A T-Rex torso and a Mammoth skull, although you can't send fossils, so that really doesn't matter.) The paintings are a hell of a lot harder to come by, so I highly doubt that anyone's filled that wing without cheating. (I only have three).
Plus, since some fish and incests only come out in the spring and summer, no one (in this country, at least) could possibly have gotten all of them, without seriously fucking with the Gamecube's internal dating. (And, really, you don't want to do that, because the game will think you haven't played in six months, and the town'll be overrun with weeds, and your house will be overrun with cockroaches, and everyone in town will be sorta pissed off at you for abandoning them.)
"The only difference between lilies and turds are those humankind have agreed upon, and I don't always agree." ---George Carlin
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Start pestering/abusing one of your neighbor's until they move to the other town. When they do, go visit them and continue your abuse! They will love seeing you again!
Edit: Somethingawful.com had some fun tips if you want to create chaos but I can't find the link.
(edited by evilwaldo on 7.10.02 1341) These commercials are superfine because they pay for the production costs of putting CHRIS MOTHERFUCKING BENOIT on my GODDAMN TV SCREEN! I will GO GREYHOUND! I am thinking OUTSIDE THE BUN! – Dean Rasmussen 8/1/2002 Smackdown Workrate Report
"Tonight, I left a ticket for Jerry Lawler to come down here, sit in the crowd and watch his son wrestle. But you know what? He's not here. I forgot - every Wednesday night he likes to hang out at the local high school with a fistful of candies!" -- Brian Lawler, 17 July 2002
Originally posted by evilwaldoStart pestering/abusing one of your neighbor's until they move to the other town. When they do, go visit them and continue your abuse! They will love seeing you again!
Edit: Somethingawful.com had some fun tips if you want to create chaos but I can't find the link.
(edited by evilwaldo on 7.10.02 1341)
Awwww man, you GOTTA give us a link for that!
"My brother saw the Undertaker walking through an airport." - Rex
Originally posted by evilwaldoStart pestering/abusing one of your neighbor's until they move to the other town. When they do, go visit them and continue your abuse! They will love seeing you again!
Edit: Somethingawful.com had some fun tips if you want to create chaos but I can't find the link.
These commercials are superfine because they pay for the production costs of putting CHRIS MOTHERFUCKING BENOIT on my GODDAMN TV SCREEN! I will GO GREYHOUND! I am thinking OUTSIDE THE BUN! – Dean Rasmussen 8/1/2002 Smackdown Workrate Report
If you piss people off, they usually go back to normal after a little bit. I've hit people w/ the net to the point where they get pissed at me, but then I stop, so I don't know what happens if you take it to the extreme.
On another note, anybody have any space-themed carpet and/or wallpaper? I've got a space shuttle and a rocket, and want to do one of my rooms in a space motif. If anybody has any, PM me. Thanks!
EDIT: I'll take any space-themed objects, as well.
(edited by Spaceman Spiff on 9.10.02 1913) Matthew: You would've loved it, David. A week in a foreign country, strange people, strange customs... Dave: Oh, I know what you mean. I've been to Canada.
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