How long do you wait before you unfriend someone?

I haven't unfriended anyone in years. Sometimes they come back.

I do an occasional random audit, usually right after an event. I want to see who hasnt logged in, even when a new event has started. I have many "permanent neighbors " that I wont delete. But otherwise, anyone not playing DAILY is subject to deletion. If someone hasnt logged in 2 days after a new event has begun, they are likely getting dumped. But that's because I get A LOT of friend reqs and I want to be able to accept them, so I must make room frequently

I will dump people not playing daily, but I will also reaccept those same ppl if they want to reconnect. Because it's nothing personal, I just prefer neighbors who are active DAILY. I like helping noobs, and I like ppl who are fixated on building their SFs and work on it every day (like I do ?)
So I want to see daily logins and towns designed with logic.

Huge Depends.
Some of my friends are indeed random internet people, that I never interacted much with here, but we all needed friends when we started, so there they were. I can get rid of those pretty easy.
Others are good friends I made here, and I know they are not playing, but I’m not yet ready to let their place go.
I have one, my best friend, she passed away 7 years ago, and I will Never remove that town. Ever. I even have to keep the original version of my town open(long story), just so I can visit hers. :'(

So it really depends in my land if you stay once I realize you aren’t playing

"fishingguy73;c-2222516" wrote:
I have a few friends I visit daily but friends in this game seem to be pointless now.

That seems true for long term players. But noobs are still scraping for every bit of change and donuts they can. So I welcome new daily players to my town. I enjoy seeing handshakes from neighboreenos every day!

I do at least try to make it worth their while to visit and explore my SF. My town is ~99% complete so there’s many good designs for inspiration. And I set almost 200 chars to repeat specific visual tasks that are part of larger, complex scene designs. The rest get sent on 24s since I accrue most donuts from job collection now. I don’t farm anymore.

Some of the visual scenes I try to keep running continuously:
fancy bachelor’s condo complex

fellas at their cabins


ppl on stage


stage and the kids at Moe’s Lemonade

these Szylaks brawling

guy signing autographs,

and MANY more. It takes a while to send them individually but I like to see all the best visual tasks, and hope my neighboreenos do too! I try very hard to keep my town fun to explore. Even graffiti is welcome here!

Wow what a dedication ! I didn’t know it where that much characters on a mission .
It s always fun to visit your town . The newt time I visit I will look out for more funny designs .
Keep up the good work :)

15 mins of not playing

I have just come back to the game after more than two years of not playing. I'm a bit surprised to see a number of still active players from back then in my friends list. I was sure everyone still playing would have dropped me long ago.

Depends on where you are in the game and how much you depend on your friends to help you along. I think two weeks is reasonable. I keep some people who haven't played in years because of sentimental reasons. They were once someone I interacted with a lot or I like their town. Some of these people have event returned to the game and started interacting again.

I haven't unfriended snyone in years. When i was needing those friend interactions for points I waited a month or two as sometimes life just got in the way and they came back.

"5PtBuck;c-2222164" wrote:
Plus half the time I go to the Other Springfields screen, none of my neighbors show up.

I suspect the reason we no longer have friend visits as part of events is because there's something wrong w the servers that carry the neighbor databases. I also have observed frequently that my neighbor list randomly isnt available, AKA zero neighbors when I know I have like a hundred