Neighbor Visit Weirdness

I often get multiple "visits" from my other game all day long. It's a glitch in the notification system.

lotusmantisx wrote:
Maybe the neighbor likes the design of your town or maybe you have items they don't have and keeps coming to Admire it or get design inspiration?

I doubt it would register as a visit unless they did something. Like tap gamblers. At least under normal circumstances.

cleared inactive friends and added a few friends last week and somehow i keep getting vandalism and tapped buildings from one new friend. new friend has casino event going and so do i

There must be a glitch in the notifications again. I got a notification that one of my friends visited 4 times throughout an eight hour period and I know this friend was most likely sleeping during the time the notifications came.

:mrgreen: It's those mischievous Leprechauns messing with you guys :mrgreen:

IckabodSchrek wrote:
:mrgreen: It's those mischievous Leprechauns messing with you guys :mrgreen:

:lol:

I believe there may also be a delay in notifications and possible repeats. I had delays before the event where I would clear the handshake and get the notification they visited hours later. I say may because right now I'm not getting any friend visit notifications for some reason (getting all others).

Oh and as for the "h" word. I don't think it's a concern for neighbour visits. From the way we've seen how they work, neighbours can't change anything in your town i.e. deactivate/activate lights, skins etc., and have it stay that way when you enter.

I also highly suspect that the way this game is coded is to reduce concurrency (multiple things happening at the same time). This means that when a neighbour visits your town they are likely getting an instance of your town rather than accessing it real time. For example they are probably accessing the last saved version of your town on the server.

We could test this out by having someone enter someone's town, the owner of the town make a change while the visitor is still there. If the visitor doesn't see the change, they are highly likely (I would say 100% but can't see the code) to be visiting the last saved copy of your town. However I'm pretty sure we don't need to. The complexity of coding it for concurrency is high and we'd see a lot more bugs.

This would also explain double handshakes etc. Two neighbours got the same instance from the server and managed to tap the same things.

edit: typos

4kidsandacatdog wrote:
I've received notifications on my phone at least 4 times today that the same neighbor has visited me. It's a pretty new neighbor, but thus far everything has looked kosher so I have no reason to suspect anything to do with the "h" word.

Is this a known glitch? Anyone else getting this?

No my experience it's definitely not the "h" word. I usually do my neighbor visits at night and my wife gets several notifications per day saying I visited. It's been happening since the event started. Probably another annoying glitch they won't fix because they aren't losing any donuts (real money)!!!! Hope this eases your mind!

I to get it on my main town from my b-town I visit with my b-town and all day long I get my other town has visited you over and over and over again I'm on Android if that matters