Giving, Receiving, & Exchanging Items/Gifts!
It's a nice idea but will undoubtedly be abused by unscrupulous 'friends'
Forum Discussion
- I've always thought it would be good to have a little 'items for sale' section for people to buy cast-offs if they want them, but tbh a) I really don't think people would sell much decent stuff and b) if people can set their price, it's open to abuse.
Leaving handshakes (when it works...) is all well and good but I would prefer to be able to give/receive something more interesting. What, I'm not sure, I just know I'm a bit sick of going through everyone for no real reason at the moment, there's no incentive other than a random donut here and there. In fact, apologies to any neighbours, but I haven't done it for over a week! Now if we were to get, say, 5 donuts every time we go through them all, I might be more inclined to do so. - I actually don't really like this idea especially since no one would really use it and it kind of defeats the purpose of the game. I mean I don't think anyone would give doughnuts and even cash for that matter because they will always be new content coming. In fact I would only give cash if I knew the person in real life and I would never give doughnuts. Also as for items people could get limited edition items for events that they weren't there for which is unfair. The point of the game is grow your town and to see your friends towns grow as well. What I would really like to see is the ability to leave comments on other peoples towns.
- I have always liked this idea but only for decorations or even a little booster feature so the person can use it to speed up building time for something and they can keep it for when they need it..if that makes sense? (They had this gift in another game I played and it was really helpful). I don't think cash or donuts is the best idea because as mentioned it has the potential to be abused.
If this was added to the game they could make it a once a week or once a fortnight thing so players don't feel like they're constantly bombarded with decorations they don't necessarily want or need..so that way it would just be a cute little thing every now and then. NOVA_POLARI wrote:
I actually don't really like this idea especially since no one would really use it and it kind of defeats the purpose of the game. I mean I don't think anyone would give doughnuts and even cash for that matter because they will always be new content coming. In fact I would only give cash if I knew the person in real life and I would never give doughnuts. Also as for items people could get limited edition items for events that they weren't there for which is unfair. The point of the game is grow your town and to see your friends towns grow as well. What I would really like to see is the ability to leave comments on other peoples towns.
How would no one use it? Have you conducted market research to prove this? It's highly likely it would actually be used, and I know this through interest expressed in previous threads.
What about people with tens of millions who wants to help someone with only a few hundred thousand, I'm sure they would be happy to give some money out. I'm sure people would give dounuts but here's the problem. Player Y has 5 alt accounts. In an event 20 doughnuts are given out. Player Y accepts all the doughnuts on each alt account, then gifts them over to the main account. Player Y has now unfairly abused the system, gaining 100 free donuts. It wouldn't be tough to grind the doughnuts needed for a few buildings. Ea frankly doesn't care about whether someone having a limited time building is fair, they regularly sell them again at a later point (e.g yard sales, Independence Day etc) frankly it's a game and you must remember that.
Personally I like the idea, but it needs to be carefully regulated which I don't think ea is willing or capable or doing, therefore it is likely we get this as a feature. However I do like the idea of commenting.- I'm confused. How could giviing donuts to other people be abused?
annettemarc wrote:
I'm confused. How could giviing donuts to other people be abused?
Read my above post- Not gonna happen. You get a decent number of free donuts from tutorials, early levels and jebediah statue, people would make dozens of bee accounts just to transfer donuts.
OnePoundBeef wrote:
NOVA_POLARI wrote:
I actually don't really like this idea especially since no one would really use it and it kind of defeats the purpose of the game. I mean I don't think anyone would give doughnuts and even cash for that matter because they will always be new content coming. In fact I would only give cash if I knew the person in real life and I would never give doughnuts. Also as for items people could get limited edition items for events that they weren't there for which is unfair. The point of the game is grow your town and to see your friends towns grow as well. What I would really like to see is the ability to leave comments on other peoples towns.
How would no one use it? Have you conducted market research to prove this? It's highly likely it would actually be used, and I know this through interest expressed in previous threads.
What about people with tens of millions who wants to help someone with only a few hundred thousand, I'm sure they would be happy to give some money out. I'm sure people would give dounuts but here's the problem. Player Y has 5 alt accounts. In an event 20 doughnuts are given out. Player Y accepts all the doughnuts on each alt account, then gifts them over to the main account. Player Y has now unfairly abused the system, gaining 100 free donuts. It wouldn't be tough to grind the doughnuts needed for a few buildings. Ea frankly doesn't care about whether someone having a limited time building is fair, they regularly sell them again at a later point (e.g yard sales, Independence Day etc) frankly it's a game and you must remember that.
Personally I like the idea, but it needs to be carefully regulated which I don't think ea is willing or capable or doing, therefore it is likely we get this as a feature. However I do like the idea of commenting.
I agree 100% with you on everything. I personally would like to see this happen but there are definitely a few cons to go with the pros of having this added to the game. I also see it never being a part of the game but I still think it would be cool if it was done right.starshipvi49 wrote:
No chance. 1000% chance it will be abused. Just get yourself a heap of feeder towns and never buy a donut again.
Yep. this what I'd do. People already do this for gaining extra currency during events. It would be rampant if EA let you gift donuts.NOVA_POLARI wrote:
I actually don't really like this idea especially since no one would really use it and it kind of defeats the purpose of the game. I mean I don't think anyone would give doughnuts and even cash for that matter because they will always be new content coming. In fact I would only give cash if I knew the person in real life and I would never give doughnuts. Also as for items people could get limited edition items for events that they weren't there for which is unfair. The point of the game is grow your town and to see your friends towns grow as well. What I would really like to see is the ability to leave comments on other peoples towns.[/quote
I agree strongly about the need for a messaging system in game from neighbor to neighbor. I would like to communicate with some of my other neighbors that I have, but do not frequent the forum as much as all of us do. If we could send them a message I can think of several nice uses, and it would definitely increase the social aspect of the game.
