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EDITED: No longer turning my current home (not tester home) into a community home!

Let me know if you'd like a key!  Come and go as you please, plant and harvest, pet and nibble, squeeze and nibble!

~Airya

As you can see, this would also grant people access to my Test Home...which I don't want.  However, please feel free to drop by my street for harvesting, nibbling and some squeezing.  :)

Posted 9 months ago by Airya Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Oh, now that is a really cool idea.  Except that if you give away keys, key holders can get into your test home, too.
    Posted 9 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • they can??  how?
    Posted 9 months ago by Airya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The key works on both homes.  So, if they can get to your personal street, they can then enter your test home.
    Posted 9 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yep-I agree with Carl. They key covers both houses so, unless everything in your new home is locked down or something you're willing to have taken, I'd be careful :)
    Posted 9 months ago by Soupie♨ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • yeah--- i'd be careful if i were you! anyone of your friends can hit your home street at any given time, and like has been said before keys work for both homes
    Posted 9 months ago by blackwidow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Some things it's important to understand:

    (1) Anyone who adds you as a friend can add your Home street to their signpost; they do not need to be on *your* friends list.
    (2) You have no way of knowing who has added your Home street to their signpost.
    (3) Anyone who visits a street with a signpost that includes your Home street can get to your Home street.
    (4) A person who is visiting your Home street can create a teleport script to your Home street.
    (5) A person who has a teleport script to your Home street can visit your Home street.

    The practical consequence of 1-5 is that you have no way of knowing who can or who has visited your Home street. Anyone you give a key can visit your Home street and enter your new home. Unless you are present at the time, there will be no way for you to know who among your keyholders has entered your home.

    In most cases, it is not possible for a keyholder to let a non-keyholder into your home, though this is known to have happened in the past due to software bugs.

    There is a limit to how many keys you can give out. So it's not possible to make a home open to the community at large by sharing keys.
    Posted 9 months ago by Splendora Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Even players who you have blocked can visit your street (and pickup/harvest whatever you have placed in your yard), not just random visitors or friends. So be very cautious.
    Posted 9 months ago by Maruchan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And....shut down.  Lol!

    I don't care if people are on my home street - in fact, I'm part of the bean tree route so I expect people to be on my home street.  

    If you give a key to your current home, then it should only allow that person to your current home.  Not your test home (not the home street but the test home itself).  Doesn't that seem like a bug to anyone else that you're allowed to do that?  Maybe just me...

    Btw...what is the limit to the number of keys?  

    I thought I had such a great idea going too! Lol!
    Posted 9 months ago by Airya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Bean tree route?
    Posted 9 months ago by Reni's Mum Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Enola: http://www.glitch.com/groups/RHVP8CB5LHP2U8O/

    Routes for all types of resources.  
    Posted 9 months ago by Airya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Can I have a key?
    Posted 9 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Airya, it doesn't strike me as a bug.

    If they were intending to make having two types of home a permanent state of affairs, then it would be a good idea for them to have separate access-granting mechanisms for the two homes.  But they haven't done that -- you only have one kind of key you can give out, and the meaning of that key is "I give this glitch permission to enter my house when I'm not here".  People who have given out keys when there was one kind of house tend to want their keyholders to be able to enter their new house, and certainly when the new houses become our only houses keyholders should be able to enter them.

    There have been some situations where keyholders have been unable to enter new houses, and *those* are considered by TS to be bugs.
    Posted 9 months ago by Fnibbit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Gotcha - no that makes sense.  

    Thanks Fribbit for explaining.  
    Posted 9 months ago by Airya Subscriber! | Permalink