Board Thread:Eureka Moments/@comment-30638141-20170121001357/@comment-31028364-20170121171920

Hey Luv & Sophie,

Just so happens I did copy into a word doc - here it is. I can't use it because I only own a PC that I use for my bookkeeping business and setting back the clock would mess with my accounting program and that would not make my clients, Uncle Sam or I very happy. Wish I could afford  other appliances to play with so I could give back what has been given to me. Just can't afford to lose my data. I just give the old fasioned way - 1 at a time. See my MyTona suggestions posted earlier.

Time Travelling with Version 1.8.0+ 

Thanks to DagFox and Stu here are the new time travel instructions for Version 1.8.0, or the Foundation Day update. Here's how to time travel, or to blatantly cheat for fun and profit.

'''What is Time Travelling? '''

Time travelling is changing the date on your device so that you can get the game to reset more often for trophy rewards, sending gifts, restoring your energy and completing crafting items.

Getting Started 

Do not send any gifts for the current day. As of the Foundation Day update, the game uses the gifting window to track the current date, so if you send gifts, then you won't be able to when you travel back in time because the game already knows what the current date is.

So, before you start, have a look at your gifting counter. Open the Gifts window, then the Send tab. If the counter at the bottom of the screen says 0/xx (where xx is the number of free gifts per day that you can send), then you're good for the free gifts. Now open the Collection tab. If the counter at the bottom says 0/10, then you're good for the non-free gifts as well.

'''Help! My Gift Counters aren't Zero '''

Now we need to make the game think that a day has passed since you last sent gifts. Open the Gifts Window and leave it open. Minimize the game and open your device settings. Turn off the automatic date and time setting, if necessary, and set the date to tomorrow. So if today's date is July 1, set the date to July 2. Return to the game. Open the Send tab to see if the counter has been reset to 0. If it has, continue with the instructions below. Do NOT send any gifts.

How to Time Travel 

1. If your trophies are ready for collection, go ahead and collect them. If they aren't, that's ok too.

2. Open the Gifts window and leave it open. Minimize the game and open your device settings.

3. Turn off the automatic date and time setting, if necessary. Set the date to a week earlier, for example. So if the current date is June 10, set the date to June 3.

4. Return to the game and close the Gifts window.

<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";font-size:12pt;">5. Now you can do all your tasks: gift friends, play locations, set up crafting and trade with townspeople. Do NOT visit friends - you can't visit friends in the past.

<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";font-size:12pt;">6. Minimize the game and return to device settings.

<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";font-size:12pt;">7. Advance the date by one day.

<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";font-size:12pt;">8. Return to the game.

<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";font-size:12pt;">9. Collect your trophy rewards and crafting items.

<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";font-size:12pt;">10. Send gifts. All the gifting quantities will be reset.

<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";font-size:12pt;">11. Visit locations and play puzzles. You can use up all your energy.

<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";font-size:12pt;">12. Repeat steps 6 through 11 for each day until you return to the current date.

<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";font-size:12pt;">Basically once you have set the date back, you play the game and advance the date one day at a time until you return to the current date. This allows you to collect all the rewards as if you had played the game each day. Once you have returned to the current date, you can play normally, including sending gifts and visiting friends.

<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";font-size:12pt;">I STRONGLY recommend that you do not travel into the future except to reset the gift counters, and only do that if necessary. I have had too many friends tell me about screwing up their game after travelling into the future and now that the game uses the gifting window to track the date, I think it's even more important to just travel into the past and finish with the current date.