ettiquette when visiting friends...

Always tap the simpsons house, kwik e mart and a brown house.

i would say the best thing to do is to tap on building with very long wait times so that the counter will start again.
if there is nothing like that available and only the Simpson house or brown house then it is more beneficial to graffiti the buildings.

HillyBillyOli wrote:
Always tap the simpsons house, kwik e mart and a brown house.

+1

A good neighbor will tag as many buildings as thy can.

Many thanks will spray and not clean ! :P

iliketoannoyyou wrote:
Add me I'm trying to get 100 UK neighbours......and I always try and graffiti 3 buildings or clean 3 :mrgreen:

how much do you have.

if you want another one add zainh17

inthekitchen wrote:

HillyBillyOli wrote:
Always tap the simpsons house, kwik e mart and a brown house.

+1

+2

Shadiest_one wrote:

cl891 wrote:
I've found in the past that for every one piece of graffiti you either spray or clean up, it affects your righteousness rating by half a star. It's generally considered bad form to clean up graffitied buildings in friends' towns as it denies them the chance to clean them themselves and get the star rating boost that goes with it.

It actually depends on what level you're on. Early levels you'll easily get a half a star per cleaned graffiti. But in the later levels its not happening.

I posted the exact numbers in my vandalizing Moe's thread

This right here. I get my town graffiti'd maybe 6 times a day and that's still not enough. One second I'm at full righteousness, the next i'm down to half a star. Also i have a question for people. Does visiting your friends' cities increase righteousness by itself? Does spray painting at all reduce your own righteousness? And does cleaning up graffiti in other towns increase your righteousness anymore than tapping other buildings? I ask this because apparently Sideshow bob has a 10% chance to appear, and that chance is added every time you visit a town so refusing to tap him in a neighbor's town would be like refusing to tap him in your own. So I wasn't sure if this applied to other aspects.

MumblingReject wrote:
One second I'm at full righteousness, the next i'm down to half a star.

I'm seeing this happen a lot more too. I'm not sure if it goes down if someone cleans up your town for you.

MumblingReject wrote:
Does visiting your friends' cities increase righteousness by itself?

Nope.

MumblingReject wrote:
Does spray painting at all reduce your own righteousness?

Nope.

MumblingReject wrote:
And does cleaning up graffiti in other towns increase your righteousness anymore than tapping other buildings?

Yes it makes yours go up. Mine recently dropped to a 1/2 star not long after the update and since people have stopped spray painting the last few days, I had no choice but to clean up other's towns.

KristinMJ78 wrote:

inthekitchen wrote:

HillyBillyOli wrote:
Always tap the simpsons house, kwik e mart and a brown house.

+1

+2

I agree with this. Clearly there is a lot of different opinions on the subject, but I will try to explain why I like it when my neighbors collect from the shortest cycle buildings. (And why I do the same to them).

1) Graffiti will allow me to collect revenue from buildings that otherwise do not generate income. However, tagging my buildings causes my Righteousness rating to drop and therefore my overall Conform-O-Meter bonus to drop. The loss of 0.5% on the Conform-O-Meter bonus will cost me much more money during the time that it is lower than I will ever be able to collect from cleaning the graffiti up. Ultimately, in order to restore my Righteousness rating, I will end up cleaning my neighbors buildings, even if I have to graffiti them first.

2) Tapping on my longer cycle buildings will, in theory, allow me to gain more from them over a given period of time because the timer is reset on those buildings. However, I generally have all my building collection times synced up (e.g. all my 4 hour buildings are ready for collection at the same time, all the 8 hours at the same time, etc). At this point I have purchased all of the land available and I use the synced up schedules to determine where in my town I need to go collect from. When a neighbor collects from one or more of these longer cycle buildings it causes them to be out of sync with the other buildings of the same time cycle and I will wind up missing some of them when they are ready for collection.

For example, any time I enter my Springfield, I head over to my residential district to collect the buildings that I know are up (i.e. Simpsons House, Brown House, etc.). While I'm over there I might notice that the Orange House is ready for collection. This tells me that the other 16 hour buildings are ready too, like the Springfield Observatory and Fat Tony's Compound. These other buildings are in areas where I usually don't need to look for things (like characters completing tasks or other short cycle buildings), so I may not check those areas if I don't see another building of the same time is ready. Especially if I'm just jumping in to quickly rotate a couple of characters while I'm at work or out with friends. If a neighbor has tapped on my orange house during a visit, the next time it is ready, the other 16 hour buildings won't be ready. I will, of course, check them and not collect anything. When they are actually ready for collection, I may not notice and miss collecting them.

There are too many variables here to determine the net effect on my earning, but I believe that this will be a net loss for me. Also it irks my OCD. :)

Ideally, the thing to do is to ask each of your neighbors what their preference is and do that for them. Not really feasible, especially if you have a large number of neighbors.

On a side note, I do think that if you are visiting a town and notice a wilted crop at Cletus' Farm, you should tap on it to give your neighbor a chance of harvesting it and not lose money on the planting.

I also try to avoid collecting from peoples house farms so that all of the houses in said farm are on the same schedule for them.

Just my two cents.