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Odd town rules that people have
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I don't think some of these rules are that weird. I think they're weird if they apply to friends hanging out in each other's towns but I can see the reasoning behind most of them if it's just a random trade. Not talking to villagers, for example, means that the trade will be much quicker because the host doesn't have to wait while the visitor talks to everyone around (plus villagers tend to mention visitors afterwards so not everyone might want that, I personally don't mind it but I can see why people wouldn't like it). Not going in certain directions or not straying off paths means it's easier for the host to follow you and check on what you're doing, I wouldn't be surprised if it's largely a safety thing due to people having bad experiences with guests who steal hybrids, cut down trees, dig holes everywhere and so on.
Really, I don't care what people's town rules are if I'm just going there for a quick trade. I'm just more interested in going straight to the point, trading, then leaving. If I want to explore their town I'll just ask politely. Most of the time you can just check on interesting towns without stepping on any toes by visiting dream towns.
I don't have many rules in my town but if you're trading with me, then I expect you to not destroy everything and just follow me to the house of the villager you're getting or the shop you're going to. It just saves my time and the other person's time too.
Really, I don't care what people's town rules are if I'm just going there for a quick trade. I'm just more interested in going straight to the point, trading, then leaving. If I want to explore their town I'll just ask politely. Most of the time you can just check on interesting towns without stepping on any toes by visiting dream towns.
I don't have many rules in my town but if you're trading with me, then I expect you to not destroy everything and just follow me to the house of the villager you're getting or the shop you're going to. It just saves my time and the other person's time too.
If it's just for trades I don't see the point of even mentioning rules. I've actually never had anyone come to my town for a trade and hang around unnecessarily or delay the trade in any way. Maybe I'm just lucky though. As you said, some people might have had bad experiences but, in that case, I don't think the person would follow the rules anyway, since they lack the basic manners to carry out a trade properly.
I had a friend randomly show up once right after a trade so I asked the person that I was trading with if they'd like to stay and look around but they declined. In my experience, people just want to trade as quickly as possible and be done with it.
I have never posted any rules, I just expect everyone to treat my town with respect. So far it has worked. One time I was trading a villager and the person showed up with a shovel in their hands and then while following me, kept turning around , I had to keep doubling back to collect them. I felt a bit nervous, but it all worked out okay.
That's your experience, that's my experience, but not all trades are the same. There are trades where people let others go pick fruit in their towns themselves in exchange for stuff, or pay people to help them landscape. In that sort of trade it's probably a good idea to have rules. Also, if you read all those threads about annoying or bad experiences people have had, there's plenty where someone just went to go trade something and along the way went inside a house to talk to a villager or something. Not all people have the same ideas of what's ok and what isn't, so while I personally wouldn't do stuff around a person's town without asking, some people may not ask at all or might think it's ok because it was ok every other time they traded.
Yes, if someone is going to trash your town they probably won't care for rules, but in that case they can't say that they didn't know they couldn't take flowers or something because you will have warned them beforehand not to do it.
I personally don't feel the need for a lot of rules. If I have items scattered around that I've dropped I'll ask that people don't pick them up since they may assume they're up for grabs (some people leave items around their towns for guests to pick up and I have no way of knowing if that's what someone I've been trading with is used to or not). Otherwise, I just try to get the trade done and over with. But I don't blame people who do more complicated trades or have guests over that they don't know well for a million other reasons (like getting badges) if they want to have rules because of bad experiences they've had before. It's their town. If I don't like the rules someone has for their town, I just won't trade with them. Just as I wouldn't enter a trade if I didn't agree with the rules posted on the very post.
I find it really weird to complain about how other people choose to run their trades or their town since it's not mandatory that you have to hang out with them if it bothers you.
Ami Mercury
Senior Member
Don't Steal anything. That's a dumb rule!
Like the don't cut down trees, drop trash, trample flowers rule, that's just dumb
Shydragon
Unabashedly Shy Kid
I can understand the don't shake trees rule. Bare fruit trees and plain trees look the same in most seasons, which can be annoying if you landscape with specific trees. I color code my paths with plants, and once I built a white path around a "plain" tree that turned out to be a cherry tree. My only rule other than the ones that go without saying like don't kill flowers is don't run on paths. My paths are lined with flowers and stuff and you have no idea how many accidents I've had where the flowers by paths get trampled. For simple trades, I don't see a reason to enforce rules. The only trade I had where something went slightly wrong was when someone took a flower from a path by accident. Even then, I just took a flower of the same type from the ones I was giving them so no harm done there.
It's not exactly a dumb rule but it's not like having that rule will really prevent it from happening. People know it's wrong to steal without having to be told. A few people (but luckily not many) do it anyway for personal gain and don't care if you have a rule.
I read through the whole thread and it looks like most people just don't understand the talking to villagers rule, I'm fine with friends talking to my villagers but not random people who I'll only see once!
I actually agree with a lot of these rules, just because I overly (and unnecessarily) worry about my town. When doing trades I don't even bother posting rules. I figure I can just flip the switch if something goes terribly wrong, but if they just talk to a villager or break a flower or two that's fine. It's slightly irritating, but not such a big deal ^^ Then again, I don't host much so I haven't had any bad experiences.
Perhaps they thought shoes wore down the grass somehow..? I have no idea quq
I actually agree with a lot of these rules, just because I overly (and unnecessarily) worry about my town. When doing trades I don't even bother posting rules. I figure I can just flip the switch if something goes terribly wrong, but if they just talk to a villager or break a flower or two that's fine. It's slightly irritating, but not such a big deal ^^ Then again, I don't host much so I haven't had any bad experiences.
This is my favorite rule by the way ouo;
Perhaps they thought shoes wore down the grass somehow..? I have no idea quq
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ghostcrossing
for everlasting peace
same lmao
Bump AND I really can't get over this, hahaha.
Mayor Tsuki
Junior Member
To all you dumbasses here, complaining about the villagers..
THEY CAN ****ING MOVE. ARE YALL DUMB OR SOMETHING!? JEEZ
THEY CAN ****ING MOVE. ARE YALL DUMB OR SOMETHING!? JEEZ
FireNinja1
inactive: please read "about" tab on profile
"Don't talk to my villagers" is something that I can understand; they just don't want the dialogue of "Oh so ____ from ____ came! they seemed like _____." Some people just find that annoying, and the simplest solution is to tell others to not talk to them. No shopping in the stores confused me though.
CozyKitsune
Sailor guardian
I don't really think any rule is that weird. I have anxiety and get pretty nervous to have people in my town. So I do like to follow them around. Since I do work hard to keep my town nice-ish. I really don't care that much about them wanting fruit I will give it to them. Or if they want to shop they can. I just don't want them to run and do anything to my town they wouldn't like to be done to their town. For ex: Digging holes, running over hybrids, digging up my special stumps. Etc.
Yea I get that might bother some people too. If you want your train station upgrade, you need 100 people to come into your town. So if they /all/ talk to your villagers, it can get pretty annoying if all 10 of your villagers are like "hey remember when xxx visited?", especially if you plan on keeping most of them in your town.
my boyfriend's friend's town has a rule of..
"don't walk on my grass"
"don't walk off my paths"
and she doesn't let you even close to her flowers at all, ( which are everywhere with 1 block wide paths so it's terrible. )
"don't walk on my grass"
"don't walk off my paths"
and she doesn't let you even close to her flowers at all, ( which are everywhere with 1 block wide paths so it's terrible. )
I can understand not wanting your neighbours to talk about Dingdong from Butthole, but in that case, wouldn't it be better to just not invite that person to your town? I can also understand people not wanting their villagers to mention visitors constantly, but personally, I actually like it when my villagers talk about people we've met.
I haven't seen any weird rules aside from the ones posted in this thread (no running north and south?). Maybe I need to hang out with more weird people or something. I would rather be able to explore a living town though, rather than be confined to "admiring" an untouchable dollhouse. Really, if you don't want anyone to "disturb" your town that badly then why bother letting anyone in? Just upload a dream and be done with it.
I haven't seen any weird rules aside from the ones posted in this thread (no running north and south?). Maybe I need to hang out with more weird people or something. I would rather be able to explore a living town though, rather than be confined to "admiring" an untouchable dollhouse. Really, if you don't want anyone to "disturb" your town that badly then why bother letting anyone in? Just upload a dream and be done with it.
