If you ever suffered STEALING! (read from post 88)

[CainWolf]

But... in my case, my whole town is filled with flowers, everywhere! There is no way to protect them.

You know what I do? I like to keep two of every hybrid I have in a museum display as a failsafe so that if some flowers get stolen I can replace them more easily if something happens. I know it doesn't protect all the flowers you own but it at least saves the hassle of finding someone else with them or breeding more from normal flowers with a lower success rate.

 

[GuerreraD]

You know what I do? I like to keep two of every hybrid I have in a museum display as a failsafe so that if some flowers get stolen I can replace them more easily if something happens. I know it doesn't protect all the flowers you own but it at least saves the hassle of finding someone else with them or breeding more from normal flowers with a lower success rate.

I have flowers in museum too It is one one of my expos, one hybrid from all the possible types.

 

[Tao]

I'm cautious about playing games like Animal Crossing with other people anyway as I just don't trust people. I expect that every person is going to steal my stuff and cut down my trees.


I honestly don't see why people do stuff like this, but then again, people only seem to care about "treat others how you would want to be treated" when it works in their favor, otherwise they don't care who they're inconveniencing.

 

[Shimmer]

Who are the people who steal stuff in ACNL? Immature kids? Bored adults? It really makes you wonder. It's just a game so there's no actual purpose to stealing stuff and it's not that difficult to earn bells. The game is designed so that even young children can play it and there's a million guides out there about making bells quickly. There's no difficult stuff that is so obscure you can't figure out.

It's not that it's too hard. They're too lazy. They see something cool, they want it then and there so they steal it. It's terrible. :/

For the people that wreck other people's towns... they do it because they think it's hilarious to ruin someone else's stuff?

 

[GuerreraD]

It's not that it's too hard. They're too lazy. They see something cool, they want it then and there so they steal it. It's terrible. :/

For the people that wreck other people's towns... they do it because they think it's hilarious to ruin someone else's stuff?

I sorta agree... nowadays lot of people prefer crime instead effort, even in a game. I wonder how they do in real life... What a generation we have here

 

[Georgia]

My experince- I restarted so I left all my valuables in my Best Friend on Acs town, I trusted her so much Then when I was finished, she was all , sorry busy, sorry have to do something... She then deleted me and NEVER talked or replied to me again

 

[Netphlix]

Im pretty sure my cousin steals money when she visits my town or when I drop stuff off for storage at her town. I dont care though. I dont let people past the train station when the come to my town. I prefer to deliver, but i have let people use my town to drop stuff off and nothing has been missing so far. I have lots of pink carnations that are super hard to obtain, if I ever saw one missing i would probably cry.

 

[Mairen]

I would simply follow visitors to their destination in my town and if they took anything, I would hit the wi-fi switch. I understand things happen without you seeing though, and by the time you notice it's too late.

 

[Geneve]

I was at school and I opened my gates for local players. Guess whichever one of the 3 came in decided it would be fun to get my golden roses. //sigh

 

[GuerreraD]

I was at school and I opened my gates for local players. Guess whichever one of the 3 came in decided it would be fun to get my golden roses. //sigh

Between all the hybrids, golden roses are not even that hard to grow... sigh.

 

[Sepia]

I have a few stories concerning club tortimer.

I was lucky enough to encounter Toy Hammer's when I went to the island one time. I only had enough bells to buy two so I kept one for myself and left the other in my box. A few days later I decided to try and sell the hammer for 25,000 bells on the island. I was the first there and then this guy came in. He showed interest in my silver axe but changed his mind after I mentioned the Toy Hammer. I've been aware of scams and things because i've witnessed so many so I told him to put his bells down at the same time as my hammer. He grabbed the hammer and I quickly maneuvered over the bells. He had dropped 1000 bells to try and fool me and was running for the exit in which I turned my system off. No scammer can scam me pfft. I got my bells and my hammer back. I felt smug for the rest of the day hahaa!

That wasn't really a nasty experience since I got my way but I've met some very mean people on that island. I was on my own at the island then this guy came. He started saying some extremely dirty things and asking for me to take nude photos and send them to him over his facebook or whatever. I didn't affect me at all, I may have told him how I thought he was disgusting for coming onto a children's game and trying to take advantage of people. Then I left while he was away. It makes me so angry to think that people a lot younger than me could of experienced the same thing. Eugh.

I've also had another situation. I was having a great time with this other guy who I kept joking around with then this guy comes. He instantly targets me because i'm a girl and starts saying how pathetic and worthless I am in which I respond with some comeback. He then, quite pathetically, error-ed right afterward. Thankfully that other guy was also sticking up for me.

It's a real shame though. To be honest, i've never encountered many people over the internet that acted this way over my long experience of "internetting" hehe. Then club tortimer, and I get them constantly. Luckily I never let it get to me, the people who resort to them means are pretty pathetic. The thought of other people though worries me.

One last thing! I know from being active on the island a lot that younger people tend to act rude. Beg for bells, and constantly ask e.t.c but they don't mean to upset anyone. I was once the kind of person that treated bell beggers harshly because I thought they were genuinely trying to take advantage of me. (that does happen!) I have actually confronted the young people though and asked them about how they get treated on the island. Every. Single. One. Said they were bullied.

 

[Locket]

Never. I met a lot of true internet friends on CT.

 

[hypnoticsoul]

it's super gross the amount of stealing that happens in ac, especially when you remember that it's basically a childrens' game, and a lot of children do play it. which means they probably get their things stolen too.

but yeah, i've only had a few bad experiences. the first one was my fault for being dumb and trusting people ofc. the first week the game was released i got the midna mask. i was super pumped bc yo midnas my favorite and boy that was fast. so i was wearing it on the island. everything was going great, i talked to some people, caught a lot of bugs. and then some guy came on and we were the only ones on the island. he asked if he could try on the mask and even though i knew it was a bad idea, i took it off and dropped it. he put it on and i was sorta like "yeah cool ok give it back" so he took it off. and then played in his inventory for like 5 minutes before saying "oh, it's not there anymore?" for 1. what a bad lie. for 2. rude. i blocked him but i didn't even think to flip the switch so i was down a midna mask for several months.

then someone on this site added me and i thought yeah its fine they just want friends. they also added me on skype which i'm also ok with or i wouldn't have it on my profile. well i was having someone over for a trade, and i normally don't close the gate after they enter because everyone asks if they can come over. this person didn't. so i had two people in my town and i didn't know what one of them was doing. i didn't want to end the session because the person i was trading with was on a busy schedule, so i told the uninvited to stay by the train station until we were done. she didn't. she ran off. i have a sign right by the train saying "don't run and stay on the paths" it's the first thing you see. she ran off and through the grass. so i had to hunt her down after the person left and ask why she was there. she also made a note on my bulletin complaining about how "everyone always treats me like a criminal i'm not a thief" which is another thing i appreciate people not doing; clogging the bulletin. but she ran around talking to villagers and everything i don't like strangers doing. then when i got her out i found out that wow incredible, there were flowers missing. what a shock.
she told me that she would've asked if she could come over but "i didn't have a way to contact you" i was on tbt. we were both on skype. she could've asked at any time. that was also the last time she ever interacted with me. i deleted her because we never talk or anything but seriously. if you don't want to be considered a criminal, don't go to someone's town uninvited. don't run away without their permission. literally don't do anything the person doesn't say you can do holy heck.

and i have of course had a few people on the island that just sit in their inventory so that you can't leave. it was only annoying when i had to flip the switch and lose the muu muu

 

[Jaebeommie]

I thankfully haven't had anything stolen from me in my time playing ACNL (knock on wood), and I feel for anyone who has suffered from such a situation. I have to admit that hearing stories about scamming and stealing has made me a bit paranoid, so now I only deal with people who have a certain number of positive wifi ratings.

 

[SolarInferno]

I can sympathise with you. I once met a girl while visiting a trusted friend's town, I'd chatted with her for a while and she seemed nice enough, so before I left I added her on Animal Crossing. A few weeks went by, but I didn't hear anything from her so I'd forgotten about her by the time she visited. I'd opened the gate for somebody else that was visiting, and then she came in while the gate was open. I only had about 9 hybrids at the time, 2 or 3 blue pansies, a few pink tulips and some orange pansies, so I was a bit nervous that I might lose the few hybrids and have to start breeding all over again. Anyway, she went quiet for several minutes, I ran up to where I was growing the hybrids were and I could have sworn that one or two pansies were gone so I asked where she was, she just said "bye" so I flicked my switch off. I reopen the gates again and she comes back, I challenge her on her stealing the flowers, but she denies it so I give her the benefit of the doubt and let her stay, a few minutes later the flowers are gone again, and the moment I see they're gone the banner flashes across "looks like someone is leaving" so again I flick my switch off.

I open the gates again for the third time, and amazingly she has the nerve to turn up again. This time she stands by the station while I challenge her again, she doesn't deny it this time and just repeatedly says "im sorry ". I have in the back of my mind that surely she won't try it again, after having been caught out twice, but to be on the safe side I follow her round at a distance and I see her picking up the flowers, so I shout at her again while she runs to the station, and I switch off...

I still have her on my "friend list", I have no idea what her Mii name is or whether she's actually on my 3DS friend list or just on my AC friend list since I added her through AC rather than registering her friend code. She hasn't visited since that incident though, and I'm much more wary about adding people I don't know now.

 

[thatawkwardkid]

So, yes... I am barely a month registered in this site,

When you made this thread, you were a member for over a month already.

I don't think anyone's stole my stuff in NL. If they did, I probably don't remember. But I had people take my stuff all the time in WW and it was ridiculous.

 

[tobi!]

Someone stole my Jacob's Ladder...

 

[seramun]

I think this is going on with me right now and I'm so bothered because I give back to people on this website a lot and pretty sucky that someone just comes along and ruins it all, now because of them, I'm not gonna be generous anymore

 

[Milky-Chii]

Oh wow reading all these stories makes me really nervous to let anyone in my town >.< I'm still pretty new here and I've done a few trades but it makes me so nervous hearing stories like this about people from TBT. I suppose I should be more careful >.>

 

[Rasha]

oh yes I have! but with bells, I'm grateful it wasn't some rare item