Speculating on the Animal Crossing Turnip Market
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Speculating on the Animal Crossing Turnip Market
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Re: Speculating on the Animal Crossing Turnip Market
#2I've seen a lot of posts recently about "Animal Crossing" that lead me to believe it's some kind of game.
Does anyone on here play it? If so, could you provide a review in under 5 paragraphs? Assume you are writing for the benefit of people who aren't kids or housewives (apply whatever backwards negative stereotype you can think of to that term).
Re: Speculating on the Animal Crossing Turnip Market
#3I've seen a lot of posts recently about "Animal Crossing" that lead me to believe it's some kind of game. Does anyone on here play it? If so, could you provide a review in under 5 paragraphs? Assume you are writing for the benefit of people who aren't kids or housewives (apply whatever backwards negative stereotype you can think of to that term).
There is so much to unpack in your high effort, low value comment. Google the game, watch some "let's play"s. Keep your weird "housewives" stereotypes to yourself, its 2020.
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#4Neat little writeup. I'd love to play with the algo and data. OP, if you see this, care to publish a notebook / code on Github?
Re: Speculating on the Animal Crossing Turnip Market
#5I've seen a lot of posts recently about "Animal Crossing" that lead me to believe it's some kind of game. Does anyone on here play it? If so, could you provide a review in under 5 paragraphs? Assume you are writing for the benefit of people who aren't kids or housewives (apply whatever backwards negative stereotype you can think of to that term).
It’s a game about communicating and building relationships.
You could learn a lot from it.
Boom! Roasted.
All done in 4 paragraphs.
Re: Speculating on the Animal Crossing Turnip Market
#6I've seen a lot of posts recently about "Animal Crossing" that lead me to believe it's some kind of game. Does anyone on here play it? If so, could you provide a review in under 5 paragraphs? Assume you are writing for the benefit of people who aren't kids or housewives (apply whatever backwards negative stereotype you can think of to that term).
Apparently the hivemind disagrees, but I thought it was a worthwhile comment.
Sure you could probably just look it up, but sometimes direct replies from people are better for getting at the essence of things.
Re: Speculating on the Animal Crossing Turnip Market
#7One detail I didn’t see that affects the risk profile is that every island in AC is their own market and you can buy and sell turnips on other people’s islands.
You can afford to be far more risky than the model suggests if you have a few friends or an active Discord group because on any given day you can almost surely find an island with a profitable price if you need it in a pinch.
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#8Well written article. If I was better versed in math I might be able to pose questions on the article, but it is a straightforward explanation.
Re: Speculating on the Animal Crossing Turnip Market
#9One detail I didn’t see that affects the risk profile is that every island in AC is their own market and you can buy and sell turnips on other people’s islands. You can afford to be far more risky than the model suggests if you have a few friends or an active Discord group because on any given day you can almost surely find an island with a profitable price if you need it in a pinch.
The other thing it ignores is the HUGE number of people time traveling. Because of this, it’s trivial to find somewhere to sell for 500+ if you’re willing to put in an hour of effort on /r/ACTurnips. I “settle” for 350 because way fewer people try to get onto those islands and I can be done faster.
Re: Speculating on the Animal Crossing Turnip Market
#10I've seen a lot of posts recently about "Animal Crossing" that lead me to believe it's some kind of game. Does anyone on here play it? If so, could you provide a review in under 5 paragraphs? Assume you are writing for the benefit of people who aren't kids or housewives (apply whatever backwards negative stereotype you can think of to that term).
There is so much to unpack in your high effort, low value comment. Google the game, watch some "let's play"s. Keep your weird "housewives" stereotypes to yourself, its 2020.
> Keep your weird "housewives" stereotypes to yourself, its 2020.
FYI, I'm a house-husband. Imagine the stereotype, and yes, that's me.
Stereotypes are useful. I know what games my mother-in-law plays, and what games appeal to her (bejewelled, etc) and others like her. These wonderful people do exist... they make up a lot of the generation that made us, much as you'd rather like to sweep them under the carpet. They have likes and dislikes common to people of that group that many HN-type people don't share.
> Google the game, watch some "let's play"s.
I don't want to know what random gamers think about the game. I want the perspective of people in "my tribe" (as much as such a diverse group can be called a tribe). That's why I asked. If you don't know the answer, then please move along. There's no need to try and score social points based on reading in my comment things that aren't there.