AC Safety

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Animal Crossing safety has been an issue with me as far as online play goes. I have been reading around different sites and forums about the safety of new leaf and read that it is much safer than the regular DS version... where people could actually come and freeze/lock up your town, destroy it and things so that you completely lose it.. Is it the case that they can no longer do that? I read offending visitors only have the normal options of chopping down all the trees and filling your town with holes... which is REALLY tame compared to what they used to be able to do.

I would be greatly relieved if so!
 
I've heard nothing about other people managing to freeze up other people's towns, but other players online still can trample flowers, take items on the ground, dig holes, chop down trees. But you can quickly turn off the 3DS wifi before they leave so all the bad changes are lost. :)
 
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I have only had a few people visit me in NL and no problems yet, but in WW I had someone drop a building seed and it bogged my town down until I was able to get rid of it with the action replay.
 
I've done quite a few trades on NL and everyone was polite. Even if they weren't, you can flick the wireless switch (Even when they cause damage and try to leave with the train!) and cause an instant error, reverting everything to the way it was before the visitor came along.

Pretty damn safe. No risks here.
 
NL is safe in the means of not bricking your game. It isn't safe in the means of destroying your town. However, the latter is easily reversible. Just flip the wifi-switch. If you do trades on here, mostly everyone is polite.
 
Wow! I never knew you could just flip off the wifi. Shows you what I know. That helps me feel a lot safer, thanks for tell me! In that case, I believe I can stop being so guarded with who I share friend codes with! Time to let loose!
 
I've done many trades on TBT for items, hybrids, and villagers and have had no problems(except one person did steal a sloppy furniture I was hiding behind someone's house, but it's really no big deal). People are direct(come in for the trade, and as soon as they're finish they leave or the host ends it), polite, and friendly. The only problem I've had were a few times when I'd open my gates for a trade and had an unwanted guest come by because they saw it was opened. After the trade I'd end connected and delete the unwanted guest's friend code. I've heard stories of people leaving their gates open while they stepped away and had unwanted guests come in trampling flowers, stealing things on the ground, shaking fruit trees, chopping down trees, digging holes, buying from their shops, etc etc. Hopefully they learned the shouldn't leave their gates open and if something like that happens quickly switch your wifi switch and you'll quickly disconnect.
 
I remember when the seeding used to go on... People with no lives used to make up groups (kind of lame really) and would give them names too...
 
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Mhmm.. I'm so glad it doesn't happen anymore. Now I can host visitors all the time, which I love doing, unexpected ones as well. I love to visit others and explore towns too. I leave the fruit trees and buried things alone on the top of my map for visitors. I like to bring pleasant surprises with me when I visit other towns too, though I probably won't be able to do that ALL the time, i'm not that rich. :P I'm thinking go to people's towns and bury some bells somewhere for them.. or do you think they would be upset about that?
 
I remember when the seeding used to go on... People with no lives used to make up groups (kind of lame really) and would give them names too...

Oh gosh I remember that.
Loads of people on ACC made threads warning others. I was so scared.
 
The only problem I've had were a few times when I'd open my gates for a trade and had an unwanted guest come by because they saw it was opened.

This has happened to me - what's most annoying about it is that it can cause everyone to disconnect; I had to do one big trade all over because an unwanted guest decided to show up. Now I go and close the gate if I'm in a trade/visit that may take a while so that can't happen.
 
IF you leave your town on and you let anyone come in, people can take any flower and destroy and flower or tree and dig up holes everywhere... I learned the hard way.
 
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