Giving up on friend visits.

"heyababy47428;87085" wrote:
The Pagans are just too scarce, it's taking forever to get through my short list of friends towns.
See you all after the event ends!

Or here on the Forum!
I'm feeling a bit of the same. Those Pagans in friends towns are hard and time consuming to find. Unless someone tells me that I'm helping out a neighbor by visiting...I'm going to skip. Hey, more fun here :)

It just took me about 10 minutes to get all the Pagans from my 20 neighbors.

The nice thing is that they don't need to be active and clear stuff. At least 4 or more of my neighbors are inactive, but I still got antlers, etc.

Also, tonight I just got 2 donuts during the visits. I don't think I've ever gotten donuts before! (I rarely visit neighbor towns when events aren't happening).

I'm going easy with it. I visit a neighbor, maybe move a little, find some pagans move on, don't find any move on. With 100 neighbors it's likely to find like 1 per neighbor with less stress.

I had a really hard time the first day. Now my brain has adjusted and I can see them in passing. Which is not to say that all the towns I visit are a quick clear (ah! Here all the Pagans - on the other side of town from where I started looking...) but it's gotten a lot easier.

"tilycoclem;1513424" wrote:
Does anybody remember when it used to say, "Add friends. Hey! It's a social game!" ???

I wasn't here then, but I do remember some really fun events involving neighbors. One not too long ago, the western event...where you could buy additional prospectors to drop on neighbors for cheep donuts and competition begain on who could give away more on the scoreboard between neighbors. This will happen again...maybe during or before this event is over. Who knows what might be ahead with this game? Only surprises? Isn't that what's so endearing about it? We have created our ideal tiny town. Then we are upset if someone doesn't make snow when we demand it. Sorry for the novella.
Now. Before we all go completely insane....
EA PLEASE give @cdepast his Grumple.....pleeeeeaase!!!
Oh..and everyone else wants one, too. Thanks Santa >:)

I'm finding it quite slow to get through too. Some pagans in neighbours towns are easy to find but others are very difficult, so I usually just progress to the next neighbour when they are hard to find.

I can barely get through two neighbor's towns without the game crashing and it's been like that for a long time now.

I agree, it's very difficult to find the pagans in neighbor's towns!
In my opinion halloween's visits were so nice, I even thought EA would keep the style for this event...

I too hoped that the neighbor visits would have been more like Halloween where we tapped buildings instead of wandering NPCs and we were able to help our neighbors as well.
I think that last years winter event was worse for visiting neighbors though. I spent a ridiculous amount of time searching for dropped presents. Some I never found (even in x-ray mode) which prevented others from dropping presents because the maximum was 10 presents. I actually had to remove one neighbor because they always dropped presents behind buildings.
This year the pagans are so hard to find that if I don't find them within 30 seconds, I just move on to the next town. I'm also not visiting everyone because the event currency runs out rather quickly.

This is the only thing that is annoying in this event, it really takes much time to find them.