Thankfully, all of my experiences have been lovely so far c: I only trade on this forum because the community here is super sweet. I've gotten many tips, compliments, and gifts and its overall been a really good time!! I don't think I would ever trust other places like the discord or Nookazon tho, they're filled with scammers ;v; my heart goes out to all of you that have had scammers and bad eggs, sounds awful!!
[rant] have you already encountered someone you won't trade with again?
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Thankfully, I've never been scammed and generally everyone I have traded with on this forum and other forums have always been polite and nice! I did trade with someone before who was generally very rude and didn't even say hello or bye and that kind of left a sour taste to me, but that's the extent that I've dealt with. My heart goes out to everyone who's been scammed </3
I once had a buyer on Nookazon who wanted to buy 10 gold nuggets from me. I gave him my dodo, & when he arrived he tried to take them and leave through the "-" button. I quickly put my switch into sleep mode to prevent it from saving so he didn't even pull off the scam. I tried messaging him on discord afterwards and he blocked me, which I'm not gonna lie I wanted to rub it in how he failed to scam me and also ask him why he even tried.
Moral of the story: Be prepared to put your switch in sleep mode to prevent saving.
Moral of the story: Be prepared to put your switch in sleep mode to prevent saving.
Thankfully, no. Outside of my friends (who I'd hope I wouldn't have problems with, lol), I've only traded with people on TBT, and things have been smooth with no problems. Generally the community here is very kind and trustworthy, so I don't have any concerns trading with people here. I have set up my own little trading area for when people do come to my island for trades, which has given me the option to just put up fencing to prevent anybody from going further into my island, but I haven't needed to do that so far. I also do make sure to be very respectful whenever I go to another person's island and don't stay there any longer than I need to be there for.
It definitely sucks to hear about the problems some other people have had, though. Always sucks to deal with people who don't play fairly and don't treat others with the respect they deserve. ):
It definitely sucks to hear about the problems some other people have had, though. Always sucks to deal with people who don't play fairly and don't treat others with the respect they deserve. ):
idklol58258
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yeah.. people have tried to scam me 4 times. its always the same. either they pick up my stuff and end session, or they pick up my stuff and leave. i error every time but its just.. why. its a game.
No, but I think that one person does not ever want to trade with me.
They said that I was being "rude" by suggesting that we do a trade on my island instead of theirs. I even stated that one of my villagers was crafting a rare recipe and I wanted to let them pick it up for free as a bonus.
I am still confused about what the problem was...
They said that I was being "rude" by suggesting that we do a trade on my island instead of theirs. I even stated that one of my villagers was crafting a rare recipe and I wanted to let them pick it up for free as a bonus.
I am still confused about what the problem was...
Only once, but it was really frustrating. I was bidding off Ankha and one person was adamant on getting her- to the point of BEGGING me. I was nice and simply replied as calmly as I could that 'They would only get her if they had the highest bid'. When the bid got to 11mil bells they literally said "Listen, I'm not looking to be scammed. I've already gotten scammed once. I'm offering 8mil bells and some gold. FInal offer"... like... okay? Then withdrawal lol. I couldn't believe they redacted their 10mil offer to try and guilt me out of any higher offers. Then when I wasn't falling for it and told them the highest bidder was getting it, they tried to offer 12 mil. Needless to say, I didn't accept their offer and told them that I didn't appreciate how they were acting and they had the AUDACITY to say "Dude really?" LIKE OK UHM, YOU'RE THE ONE BEING RUDE???
No because I don't trade on other forums, websites, etc. This one is pretty trustworthy but I don't let people around my island unless they ask and I follow them to make sure. Whenever I make a shop on here I always state "if you don't follow the rules that I have given then I cannot accept future transactions for you."
I think a huge part of the initial issue is just that: fear from all of the potential damage that visitors could do on past games. Unless you are leaving items on the ground that someone could steal, there's literally nothing they can do to your town that would "ruin" it. The scams people are talking about here are one thing, but someone just taking a walk through your town? There's really no crimes they can commit.
Having played new leaf, I totally get that fear, however. To the point I even feel nervous visiting someone else's town, like I don't even want to step off the path, or leave the sight of my host, because I'm nervous about making them nervous. It all goes back to the days of the older games when an unsupervised visitor could absolutely destroy your town, and people would have rules posted in their threads like "if you leave my sight, I'll end the session immediately and the trade will be voided".
I'm far more laid back as a host than as a visitor. I encourage people to take a stroll through my town, talk to my villagers, visit the shops, see the sights, you know? But what we're seeing here is a clash of new players vs. old. There's a big part of the playerbase that is experiencing animal crossing for the first time and they honestly have no idea of the unspoken etiquette that's already been established by those of us who have played the older games.
I have honestly never had a memorably bad trading experience on the Bell Tree forums (knocks wood) so I am pretty spoiled and am unlikely to trade anywhere else. I mean, sometimes I've received some passive-aggressive or pissy attitudes in trading threads when I've politely rejected an offer but that's as bad as it has gotten for me in all my years here.
That said, New Horizons has attracted a lot of new folks to the series and that means we can expect to have to deal with some bad apples while patiently showing the good ones the ropes of island/town etiquette.
That said, New Horizons has attracted a lot of new folks to the series and that means we can expect to have to deal with some bad apples while patiently showing the good ones the ropes of island/town etiquette.
only once, and it was actually my bad. I traded fossils and instantly ended session when they ran off, turns out they were checking something on their phone.
I apologized profusely but instead he chose to swear at me in discord to the point where I just blocked him.
I apologized profusely but instead he chose to swear at me in discord to the point where I just blocked him.
I haven't had an issue but truthfully I don't trade much. I have one friend I met here that I've been trading with since NL and she's awesome. She has helped me so much in getting items/diy and I try my best to help her in return. Her island is amazing too.
Recently I opened my gates and for 2 people. I specifically said not to wander off (because I had a lot of furniture and DIYs on the ground) and that the shops were straight ahead. As soon as they finished what they were doing both people booked it in opposite directions in my town without saying anything. Eventually they asked if they could your and I said no (I felt a little bad but I was pretty clear in my original post) and they left. It may have just been my paranoia but it triggered my anxiety so badly for the rest of the night so I just closed my thread.
I'm honestly VERY grateful about how NH is much friendlier to unknown visitors- with the 'not destroying flowers', no mass holes, not messing up custom paths. But there are a few things that could really mess up the host. Even the 'small' things the previous user mentioned like buying out items from the shop that the host might want, Or shaking fruit trees, or even running/picking flowers can be very detrimental to the island. It may seem small, but some of these things take days to fix if the host doesn't TT. Needless to say, a very upsetting thing to happen.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the host is cross-breeding or just breeding in general, even though flowers cant be totally destroyed, the flowers won't breed if they aren't in bloom. So that's already a 3 day wait to attempt any cross-breeding with those flower(s).
Or Even if a villager is moving out- if the random visitor talks to them they could snipe that villager they might be selling or wanting to give to a friend.
Or they could have bell trees... and gosh I know I tried to make a bell tree farm and got totally paranoid anytime someone visited my island.
I've taken large precautions to prevent things like that by checking my shop and buying anything I want beforehand, digging up my important flowers or blocking them off with fences, and the same with bell trees. But it's still a lot of extra work that the host shouldn't have to do when being kind enough to host people.
I'm generally pretty lax with visitors on my island- not caring about where they go or what they do, but I can see why people are very strict on it. it is pretty unfortunate that it is deterring people from trading/visiting other islands though out of fear.
You've brought up a lot of great points! I think these things were kind of on the back of my mind as I was making my post, but they never came forward enough for me to address them. I'd like to say I didn't mention them because unlike with New Leaf, most of those things actually aren't permanent damages. Of course it's still highly inconvenient if someone were to take fruit from trees without asking or run through flowers and slowing progress of growing hybrids (I'm not a time traveler, so I could certainly relate to that >.< ), but they are still things that will eventually be okay again.
However, I didn't think about money trees! And regarding shops, I personally do my shop visits right away during the day to see if I find anything interesting. I don't jump right into trading or visitors first thing. But I can also understand if there's something in a shop that someone can't buy right away because it's too expensive, it would be awful if a visitor bought it instead!
i’m sorry you had a bad experience - my experiences have typically been positive during both my time playing new leaf and me currently playing new horizons. i think the only experiences that i’d consider to be not-so-great are the circumstances where the person i’m trading with responds to me very sporadically and is hard to get ahold of or where i go to someone’s town for a trade and they start inviting their friends over to play. obviously people should play with their friends but at least wait until i leave so we can complete the trade without any distractions/delays? i’m also not all that comfortable with people randomly showing up when i was led to believe it would be a one-on-one trade and i wasn’t informed that other people would show up. it’s one thing if it’s for other trades but like i said, if you’re gonna invite your friends over to play and goof around, either inform the trader of the situation or wait until the trade is complete ;u;
Not yet and I hope I never do. I did have one in new leaf though. I ended up switching the wifi off on my 3ds. Generally everyone I've traded with so far I've had no problems with but if you don't think I wouldn't get nervous or anxiety starts I would be lying.
From trading with users on nookazon (while I feel offended because I would never do anything but I know there aren't nice people in the world) I've learned that a good idea is to block the airport entrance with a stall. they drop the item on one or both sides, pick them up and pay or vice versa
From trading with users on nookazon (while I feel offended because I would never do anything but I know there aren't nice people in the world) I've learned that a good idea is to block the airport entrance with a stall. they drop the item on one or both sides, pick them up and pay or vice versa
staticistic1114
im hungry
acnh discord (not tbt) is really sketchy and full of scammers tbh and i only go there to sell and *always* fence or i go their island instead
if by some miracle i decide to buy something, in which their prices are straight-up absurd, i usually ask for proof of possession before actually proceeding with the transaction
thank god people here are nice and haven't had any trouble even without fencing
if by some miracle i decide to buy something, in which their prices are straight-up absurd, i usually ask for proof of possession before actually proceeding with the transaction
thank god people here are nice and haven't had any trouble even without fencing
I haven't hosted a ton, but I had a good number of visitors already. Some of them are here on this thread; a few of them came to my island in the last two or three days.
I never had to fence anything. One thing I sometimes do is to tell them to follow me to a villagers' house, or I simply post the directions to said house when I pm them, so they don't get lost.
Also, I often give people freebies and allow them to shop freely. I won't tell them to do that only when there's a bunch of people waiting to come get the diy, as that would slow down the process for everyone.
As a visitor I always try to stay near the host, unless they explicitly say I'm free to wander around. I learner my AC etiquette playing NL on gamefaqs with people as old as I am, and even though I don't need to be as careful with visitors/when visiting as I had in NL, that etiquette is already hard coded into my brain.
I never had to fence anything. One thing I sometimes do is to tell them to follow me to a villagers' house, or I simply post the directions to said house when I pm them, so they don't get lost.
Also, I often give people freebies and allow them to shop freely. I won't tell them to do that only when there's a bunch of people waiting to come get the diy, as that would slow down the process for everyone.
As a visitor I always try to stay near the host, unless they explicitly say I'm free to wander around. I learner my AC etiquette playing NL on gamefaqs with people as old as I am, and even though I don't need to be as careful with visitors/when visiting as I had in NL, that etiquette is already hard coded into my brain.
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