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fastshadow2's avatar
9 years ago

friends etiquette

Howdy, I think the vandalism thing is something that everyone questions at some point.
It's true that if you vandalize a building the neighbor will get cash from that building that they wouldn't normally get. On the down side it will lower thier righteousness rating. They can counter this happening by adding training walls to thier town, but still some people really do not like it if you vandalize in thier town. Personally I don't care if someone vandalizes in my towns and I may return the favor, but I do have neighbors that don't like it so I won't vandalize in thier town. There is not an easy way to know if they mind or not. I think EA should consider adding a toggle for whether a person will allow buildings to be vandalized or not since this is always an issue.
I'm not sure about the pacifier count thing..my guess is that they haven't been participating in this part of the event but I could be wrong.
There is generally a cap on the amount of event currency you can get from visiting neighbors in a 24 hour period. Once you have reached the max of the cap, you will just get cash, experience and friend points. I think the pacifier cap is 68 per 24 hours from friend visits. I may be wrong about this but I think that is what I read.

Also about the caps...I believe friend points are on a diminishing scale and on a 24 hour cap as well. For events, sometimes you can purchase a temporary "license" for donuts which would increase the cap on event currency. There was one for the winter event that doubled event currency for friend visits, but I am unsure if it is effective now during act 3 of the winter event.
Anyway hope that helps...as always if I'm incorrect by all means please correct me.
  • Thanks, your response was helpful, I read via forum that my righteousness would go down and increase theirs. But that was posted in2013 and didn't know if it that had changed or was correct. I've got some friends that seems to be all they do is vandalize so I figured it would not hurt either of us.

    Vandalism is ok with me, it lets me know they are visiting.

    I've noticed Lemmon trees in friends SF's, do you know if tapping on the trees is anymore beneficial to friends than buildings or other tapable items?


    Thanks again

  • Sorry I'm not too much help here. I remember a discussion a while ago about the amount the neighbor received when you tapped on something. I think they were discussing whether or not there was a multiplier for clearing something a neighbor tapped, but sorry, I don't actually know what the end result of the discussion was...

    Also about the righteousness, i ran a search and found the same stuff I think you did....I could be wrong about that too but that was how I understood it. I honestly never really payed all that much attention to the stars so I was just quoting what I understood it to be. I really have just pretty much figured that if they vandalized you they were ok with it and otherwise I just don't do it myself.

    Maybe someone who might know for sure might be more helpful about the vandalism/riteousness stuff. Maybe Nintendo may know...he seems to know a ton about the workings of the game.

    On a side note, that's cool about the stealing a lemon tree...didn't know that was ever a thing in the game. :)
  • I think the best way to deal with neighbour visits is to do them the way you like, or better: as you would like your neighbours to behave when they visit your town. If someone doesn't approve of you vandalizing or the frequency of your visits or whatever, they are always free to delete you. There's plenty of people looking for new friends all the time, so deleting someonce really does no harm.
  • I personally think spray painting a friend's building is a nifty part of the game. I use it to let friends know that I've been there, since we're mostly tapping on the Not Really There Bears at this point and a friend will not have the benefit of a pop up telling them anyone has been there if bears are the only target. As far as I can tell, it doesn't hurt/help either player that much, so go for it.

    Sidebar: I believe the OP of this thread is now one of my friends. Howdy!

    http://i.imgur.com/xXVxtdl.jpg?1
  • My take on Vandalizing:

    If a neighbor has all 4 buildings together near their landing zone they don't care if you vandalize. Otherwise why put them there?

    I don't vandalize deliberately (though I was doing it at one point out of frustration) and don't care if people vandalize mine. My Righteousness almost never goes down and I only have a few training walls.

    The limit on pacifiers: you get pacifiers from the first 50 bears you tap. 3 each for the first 6, then 1 for the rest. If you tap a building that counts as one of your first 50 taps. So far I've been able to tap 50 bears without tapping any buildings once.
  • wadebear wrote:
    My take on Vandalizing:

    If a neighbor has all 4 buildings together near their landing zone they don't care if you vandalize. Otherwise why put them there?

    I don't vandalize deliberately (though I was doing it at one point out of frustration) and don't care if people vandalize mine. My Righteousness almost never goes down and I only have a few training walls.

    The limit on pacifiers: you get pacifiers from the first 50 bears you tap. 3 each for the first 6, then 1 for the rest. If you tap a building that counts as one of your first 50 taps. So far I've been able to tap 50 bears without tapping any buildings once.


    Ah ok, didn't know that about tapping buildings during the first fifty taps...thank you.
  • I agree about not worrying about the people that do not like vandalism, they can delete me if they like. There are many people looking for friends. They are going to have trouble finding friends that do not do that. Thought one building a time was a good way to show activity in friends towns. I just wanted to be a good neighboreeno.

    I would have gotten friends before couple years ago but was afraid I would loose lemon tree. Found out recently that is no longer an option, so I have begun a friends list.

    Thanks to all, add me if you'd like, level 59 fastshadow2