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Anybody else paranoid ?

I am always really careful when in other peoples towns I am more paranoid about that, and yes I have had bad experiences before...someone managed to jump around so fast, say they went in the wrong house, not follow me to the home on a give and I should have flipped the switch but am so trusting that I lost all my hybrids in my main completed town except he didn't have time to hit my one gold rose.

Now though especially after that, I have found that going for signatures and being told it's ok to just go down the path and talk to the six or go in houses, I am careful and update every move but it's nice to not be so scared in other towns too. I realized that interaction is a big part of this game that I am depriving myself of and I don't really have a lot to lose that can't be replaced so as far as my towns, I am much more open right now to thinking people know etiquette like me and if over a certain age I would like to have more actual game interaction friends maybe a small close trusted circle as there are a lot of good people on here. I used to be so paranoid and am in others towns but in mine I feel like I actually play not just cycle and I am not getting all the fun out of it by going routine day by day on my own and I have no friend IRL that plays so, I've opened up to trying to plan some interactions and see how it goes with others that are looking. Obviously if they do something crazy I won't keep playing and will report but I don't really expect it, and a few flowers isn't going to make me isolate. I have enough of that being stuck home ATM.

Anyway I didn't think I would have so much opinion on that but I really felt like it was a lonely game last night and people cycle or what not instead of play or get bored because of this paranoia and not using the interactive feature that so many stopped playing cf because they lost it. No point in having the prettiest town or some colored flowers that I at least don't want from you if you aren't sharing the game I used to feel opposite but last night I just wanted more interaction with not just the community but the community and the game it's for.
 
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After reading all these, sometimes I wonder if I'm TOO relaxed. XD Seriously though, generally I PM the person beforehand and check out their wifi ratings before letting them in my town. I REALLY HATE following them around like some creepy stalker, so I just go around to make sure nothing is amiss, though I've never had a bad experience before with people in my town.
 
Yeah I hardly ever let people come to mine lol, and if they do I walk 1 step behind them at all times, stalking and watching their every move. After they leave I run straight towards my gold roses and jacob's ladders just to make sure nobody pinched one then breathe a sigh of relief. I rarely let people past the train station entrance.

This one guy came to my town and was just walking about everywhere and picked up a mushroom and was like "hey, watch this" and ate it to make his character grow for a few seconds and I was like "oh wow, yeah..." but inside I was dying, I had OCD'ly placed those mushrooms around town perfectly.

wifi switch m8
 
My main town is closed to visitors. I've had only one very good friend visit. To get the train station my guest town dropped by.
My guest town is opened to my group. I usually leave the player sitting on a bench while I do RL things.
If it's someone I don't know than I usually just stay at the train station. Most of the time it's a trade and they want to leave right away. Other times I've let people shop at Gracies. It's in a different season and I already have everything.
Sometime I'll take them to my hybrids and let them take a few home.
 
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My main town is closed to visitors. I've had only one very good friend visit. To get the train station my guest town dropped by.
My guest town is opened to my group. I usually leave the player sitting on a bench while I do RL things.
If it's someone I don't know than I usually just stay at the train station. Most of the time it's a trade and they want to leave right away. Other times I've let people shop at Gracies. It's in a different season and I already have everything.
Sometime I'll take them to my hybrids and let them take a few home.

Oooo! You're really nice! I just have the standard rules. And if I see someone running, I remind them to watch for the flowers. (I have this huge spot of flowers that the villagers and I have put together and some hybrids have grown there). And I'll only let someone roam around if they ask.
 
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When I first got New Leaf, I would leave my gates open all the time because I really didn't have anything that people would want to steal. But in the past year, I've only opened my gates up for trades.
 
I go based off of their Wi-fi ratings. If it's high, I'll let them go on their own, but vice versa and I'll watch closely. Usually, if they don't have at least 5 positive wi-fi ratings, then I don't even let them enter my town. I just don't want anything stolen.
 
since I don't have any hybrids I usually let them do whatever they want :P
in fact I'm the one who tells them to feel like home and "check out" my town and take whatever they like~
 
I'm super paranoid xD I absolutely hate having visitors wander my town. All my visitors are to stay put at the Train Station. There was this visitor who came to pick up a villager and the moment she came she disappeared from sight O__O I think she ran through my town even after I told her not to. She didn't even greet me. Like seriously... the nerve of some people. That was the first AND final strike for me
 
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You're defiantly not alone! I get nervous if I don't trust them or haven't met them before. I do however follow them around.
 
You're defiantly not alone! I get nervous if I don't trust them or haven't met them before. I do however follow them around.

Same. I try not to, but I cant help it. The two people I invited though were SUPER nice. One was a guy who was excited to fish and get bugs (Its spring in my town) and another girl just... did her thing I guess.
 
It depends on the person, I don't usually let a lot of people in my town tbh.
 
I'm pretty trusting of people on TBT since a lot of the players I meet here have pretty high ratings. There are also a few tumblr followers that I've allowed to roam around freely. But if its someone with low ratings or a follower I haven't interacted much with I usually give them a tour. Nothing has ever happened to me with these sorts of people. However, I do lose a lot of hybrids every time trusted friends come over. It's not that they're stealing them or anything though. They're just... noobs and run around a lot LOL
 
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