When you tap an item in a friends town, you get the same amount regardless of what you tap. Your friend gets what ever that building would have given them had it had a Dollar Sign, Cash Register or Restaurant Check above it when they tap the hand shake, makes no difference. However if you vandalize a friend they get money and experience that they would never be able to get otherwise and it helps them with their obedience rating (for cleaning up graphitti).When I go to a friends Springfield I look to see how many stars they have. If they have 4 or 4 1/2 stars that usually means that their obedience has dropped and I will tap Moe's, Springfield Elementary, Town Hall or the Police Station so they can get an obedience boost when they clean it up (it also gives them $$'s and XP that they otherwise could not get). But I do not spend a lot of time searching for those buildings. If they are at 5 stars I tap whatever.During events things are completely different though.Just my 2 cents.Happy tapping.

I tap anything I see first, I don't think it really matters but I try to avoid the spray paint at all costs cause it damages your righteousness rating.

hot4daryldixon wrote:I tap anything I see first, I don't think it really matters but I try to avoid the spray paint at all costs cause it damages your righteousness rating.It can damage your rating, but it improves your neighbor's when they clean it, plus they get money for a building they wouldn't have otherwise.Also, righteousness is easy to get back up. If you're able to build training walls, a bunch of them will protect you from any amount of tagging. And if you're a low level you can build your rating up by repeatedly catching Sideshow Bob in Other Springfield. He almost always starts out near the Squidport entrance, so as soon as you enter zip over there and get him. Then exit and go right back in. Do it while you're watching TV and you'll get to 5 stars in no time.

benb61 wrote:When you tap an item in a friends town, you get the same amount regardless of what you tap. Your friend gets what ever that building would have given them had it had a Dollar Sign, Cash Register or Restaurant Check above it when they tap the hand shake, makes no difference. However if you vandalize a friend they get money and experience that they would never be able to get otherwise and it helps them with their obedience rating (for cleaning up graphitti).When I go to a friends Springfield I look to see how many stars they have. If they have 4 or 4 1/2 stars that usually means that their obedience has dropped and I will tap Moe's, Springfield Elementary, Town Hall or the Police Station so they can get an obedience boost when they clean it up (it also gives them $$'s and XP that they otherwise could not get). But I do not spend a lot of time searching for those buildings. If they are at 5 stars I tap whatever.During events things are completely different though.Just my 2 cents.Happy tapping.I think you may mean to refer to righteousness rating instead of obedience. While it does increase slightly when you clean up graffiti in your own town, my understanding is that when your neighbour graffitis it decreases this rating more than the benefit of cleaning. According to tstoaddicts, both you and your neighbour will lose 5 points to righteouness when you graffiti. You only get one point when cleaning it up.Personally, I just hide training walls and the rating stays the same.

I like to tap things like Station 6, KBBL, bounce house, pretty much anything other than regular buildings. And I will go looking for buildings to graffiti. :twisted: Now, that being said, if I'm in a hurry then anything goes! :) One thing I'd caution you about is to NEVER tap anyone's corn. People will get down right irate if you do. :wink: I will only tap the farm if I see their crop has wilted, because that will bring it back to life for them.

Etiquette in tapping in neighbors town?

hot4daryldixon
10 years ago
I tap anything I see first, I don't think it really matters but I try to avoid the spray paint at all costs cause it damages your righteousness rating.
Chivalrous42
10 years ago
hot4daryldixon wrote:
I tap anything I see first, I don't think it really matters but I try to avoid the spray paint at all costs cause it damages your righteousness rating.

It can damage your rating, but it improves your neighbor's when they clean it, plus they get money for a building they wouldn't have otherwise.

Also, righteousness is easy to get back up. If you're able to build training walls, a bunch of them will protect you from any amount of tagging. And if you're a low level you can build your rating up by repeatedly catching Sideshow Bob in Other Springfield. He almost always starts out near the Squidport entrance, so as soon as you enter zip over there and get him. Then exit and go right back in. Do it while you're watching TV and you'll get to 5 stars in no time.
nissa762
10 years ago
benb61 wrote:
When you tap an item in a friends town, you get the same amount regardless of what you tap. Your friend gets what ever that building would have given them had it had a Dollar Sign, Cash Register or Restaurant Check above it when they tap the hand shake, makes no difference. However if you vandalize a friend they get money and experience that they would never be able to get otherwise and it helps them with their obedience rating (for cleaning up graphitti).

When I go to a friends Springfield I look to see how many stars they have. If they have 4 or 4 1/2 stars that usually means that their obedience has dropped and I will tap Moe's, Springfield Elementary, Town Hall or the Police Station so they can get an obedience boost when they clean it up (it also gives them $$'s and XP that they otherwise could not get). But I do not spend a lot of time searching for those buildings. If they are at 5 stars I tap whatever.

During events things are completely different though.

Just my 2 cents.

Happy tapping.

I think you may mean to refer to righteousness rating instead of obedience. While it does increase slightly when you clean up graffiti in your own town, my understanding is that when your neighbour graffitis it decreases this rating more than the benefit of cleaning. According to tstoaddicts, both you and your neighbour will lose 5 points to righteouness when you graffiti. You only get one point when cleaning it up.

Personally, I just hide training walls and the rating stays the same.
elmalynn
10 years ago
I like to tap things like Station 6, KBBL, bounce house, pretty much anything other than regular buildings. And I will go looking for buildings to graffiti. :twisted:

Now, that being said, if I'm in a hurry then anything goes! :)

One thing I'd caution you about is to NEVER tap anyone's corn. People will get down right irate if you do. :wink:

I will only tap the farm if I see their crop has wilted, because that will bring it back to life for them.
KillaSqirl
10 years ago
Keep calm and tap on :)
MamaLuck
10 years ago
Ugh I'm confused about the spray paint thing lol. Is it good or bad for your neighbors for you to tap them?? It seems as though there are conflicting answers here regarding this.
nissa762
10 years ago
MamaLuck wrote:
Ugh I'm confused about the spray paint thing lol. Is it good or bad for your neighbors for you to tap them?? It seems as though there are conflicting answers here regarding this.

The answer is kinda both.

Negative: It will drop the conform-o-meter rating for righteouness for both you and your neighbour. However this can fluctuate in ways it seems not everyone has figured out. You can prevent this by hiding training walls behind buildings in your town, so it's a negative you can avoid.

Positive: It gets buildings that otherwise wouldn't payout to drop cash and XP for your neighbour.
johncolombo
Hero+
10 years ago
back in the olden days, before the training walls, if your neighbors did not graffiti you, your righteousness dropped. You needed to clean the graffiti in order to the righteousness back up to 5 starts. This was one of the reasons I created a couple or so other Springfield's of my own so I could graffiti my main town. That's way I remember it anyway. Now I have a bunch of training walls all over my town, so it doesn't really matter to me so much anymore. I say tap what you like.

Please note though and it's been discussed before I think the bigger taboo is do not tap your neighbors corn. They spent 90 days growing it and a lot of players like to tap it themselves. And speaking of you can also help your neighbor by tapping any dead plants at the farm, your tap will bring it back to life for them.
dubhe1313
10 years ago
Wow thank you all for all of the input. I have never seen dead plants, didn't even know that happened. :)
johncolombo
Hero+
10 years ago
dubhe1313 wrote:
Wow thank you all for all of the input. I have never seen dead plants, didn't even know that happened. :)

Probably because a lot of grow corn these days, it's one less thing to worry about. A plant will die after the same amount of time it takes to grow it if not tapped. Except for corn which takes 90 days, I think it dies in one week.