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Hello, and welcome to my guide on the Tom Nook Point System. The purpose of
this guide is to clear up any questions you might have about how the TNPS
works. This is my first guide, and I could use some feedback so feel free to
email me at pokegenius (at) gmail.com. Hopefully this guide is useful for you!
Special thanks goes to:
Mr_Bondi, for suggesting I write this guide
swimmehdude, MadAlice206, and Rasheed Wallace 30 for helping me test things out
pein7 for teaching me a bit about writing FAQs
i_am_the_batman for all her love and support
everyone who bumped my original topic
Nintendo, for making this great series (now how about a real sequel?)
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|| TABLE OF CONTENTS ||
1. Version History
2. Legal Stuff
3. Overview
4. Earning Points
5. Using Points
6. Question and Answer
7. Misc.
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| Version History |
1.0 - the first one! Converted the post into a FAQ.
created on 12/04/2008
1.1 - fixed a few errors, made some very minor changes to the layout
12/06/2008
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| Legal Stuff |
All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned by their
respective trademark and copyright holders.
With that out of the way, as long as you ask for my permission I will most
likely allow you to use the guide, unaltered, as long as I am credited for it.
This guide is copyright Gotta Play, 2008.
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| Overview |
~ What is the Tom Nook Point System?
Put simply, it's a program that rewards you for shopping at any of Nook's
stores. The main thing you're going to use the TNPS for is acquiring the
Nintendo-themed TNPS items.
~ The PTM
Or, point-tracking machine. This is the green and gray machine inside Nook's
stores. Use this to check your member ranking, current rank and total points,
and exchange your points for items.
~ How does it work?
Any time you buy something at Nook's store, or order something from his
catalog, you will recieve 1 point for every 100 bells you spend.
You also recieve points for using the machine inside Nook's store and
selecting "visitor points."
~ Earning points has two benefits:
1)increasing your member ranking, which gives you a discount and one of a kind
models for your home
and 2) to swap for exclusive prizes.
The machine uses two ways to measure your points: rank points and total points.
Rank points is the sum of all the nook points you have ever earned, this number
will never go down and is used to determine your member ranking.
Total points is the amount of points you actually have to spend, and this of
course will go down when you swap for a prize.
Now this is important, the maximum amount of points you can have in either
category is 50,000! The machine will stop tracking rank points at 50,000, and
if you get 50,000 total points you will not be able to earn anymore until you
spend some.
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| Earning Points |
The absolute best way to earn points is to wait until a 5x point special day.
There will be an announcement on the town bulletin board beforehand, letting
you know the date that it is happening. It seems that the 5x point specials
happen once each month, on a random day. When you do have a 5x point special,
you can order lots of expensive items from your catalog to rack up points
quickly. The white katana and the moon are popular items, costing 36k and 32k
respectively. The downside to this is that you will end up with lots of white
katanas or moons that you have no use for. The upside is that you will have
tons of Nook points. I was able to max out my points in about 15 minutes doing
this. Remember to watch your total points because anything you buy after 50,000
points is a waste of bells.
~ Visitor points
You get visitor points from the machine in Nook's store. You have to actually
go to the machine and choose "visitor points," or you will not get any at all.
If you get visitor points from your own Nook's, you will only get 3 points. If
you get them in someone else's Nook's, you will get 5 points. Now, you can only
get visitor points once each day, so don't get visitor points in your own
Nook's if you know you will have access to someone else's.
~ Member rankings and discounts
There are four member rankings, earned by acquiring the following number of
rank points:
300 points - Bronze - You will recieve a Nook's Cranny model in the mail.
5,000 points - Silver - You will recieve a Nook n' Go model in the mail, and
you now have a 5% discount at Nook's
10,000 points - Gold - You will recieve a Nookway model in the mail, and you
now have a 10% discount at Nook's
20,000 points - Platinum - You will recieve a Nookington's model the mail, and
you now have a 20% discount at Nook's
There is no benefit to going past 20,000, other than having a lot of points.
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| Using Points |
AKA, the good part. Exchanging your point for "presents." You can only get
these items by spending Nook points, and you will be the envy of all your
friends. Take that, friends. You can only exchange points for one present each
day, which will arrive by mail at the next opporunity. You can exchange your
points for presents at the machine in Nook's, and you will only be able to see
the items that you have enough points for.
To clear up some confusion: You can order as many of any of the items as you
want! There is no "one per person" rule, there is no "pick this or that"
stipulation. You can order a hundred of each item if you want, but only one
per day. Here is the list of items and their prices:
*spoilers*
Banana (from the Mario Kart series)........................500 points
Triple Shells (from the Mario Kart series).................800 points
Yoshi's Egg (from Yoshi's Island)........................1,000 points
Bad Bro 'Stache (Wario's mustache - wearable)............2,500 points
Toad Hat (the mushroom part of Toad's head - wearable)...3,000 points
Peach's Parasol (an equippable umbrella).................4,000 points
Hero's Clothes (Link's outfit - shirt)...................5,000 points
Varia Suit (Samus's outfit - shirt)......................5,000 points
Wario Hat (take a guess).................................5,000 points
Hero's Cap (Link's hat and hair).........................6,000 points
Majora's Mask (wearable helmet)..........................6,000 points
Samus Mask (wearble helmet)..............................6,000 points
Midna's Mask (