chris60119 wrote:I have a bunch of towns that never seem to be tapped clean. If it says haven't played in 4 weeks. There gone!!I usually dump after 2 weeks....in case they're on vacation.

24 hours. They're gone. Though as a courtesy, I always file a missing tappers report with EA.

sandwedgeking wrote:24 hours. They're gone. Though as a courtesy, I always file a missing tappers report with EA. LolI usally wait till there is nothing to tap, or if they don't visit me during events, I don't care if they don't visit during down time.

Snakeyees wrote:sandwedgeking wrote:24 hours. They're gone. Though as a courtesy, I always file a missing tappers report with EA. LolI usally wait till there is nothing to tap, or if they don't visit me during events, I don't care if they don't visit during down time.If nothing to tap I check how longs its been if its been 1 day or more they are gone.During events I am even more harder, there is no excuse for a last login less than one hour ago and you have nothing to tap with hundreds of buildings in your town.Ive already dropped one person during this event for that.

abc1177947165 wrote:Snakeyees wrote:sandwedgeking wrote:24 hours. They're gone. Though as a courtesy, I always file a missing tappers report with EA. LolI usally wait till there is nothing to tap, or if they don't visit me during events, I don't care if they don't visit during down time.If nothing to tap I check how longs its been if its been 1 day or more they are gone.During events I am even more harder, there is no excuse for a last login less than one hour ago and you have nothing to tap with hundreds of buildings in your town.Ive already dropped one person during this event for that.This has been me lately. I get aggravated when their last log in was an hour or so ago and there is nothing to tap. Really? You were just in your town, you can't clear your buildings for neighbors? Or more than 2 days has gone by I drop them. Sometimes I will give a friend that I've had for a while and visits or plays events regularly the benefit of the doubt and wait a few days more, but if it happens over and over where they don't have anything to tap for days at a time I drop them.During an event like this it is easy to tell if someone is playing the event, look at their event currency count, look at their town, do they have the prizes? If they aren't playing and I have people waiting in my list to be added to my friends list I drop them.

How many weeks of not playing do you give a neighbor the boot?

Pinpal00
10 years ago
Replacements are easy to find:

http://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh422aQlPy1qc4debo1_500.gif

However, am I the only person who uses the hide function? I've had one neighbor hidden for a long time. This event, he's been visiting frequently, and I'm visiting in return. It's a great town, so I wasn't going to drop him anyway. In fact, I'm fine if my neighbors want to take some time off: if there's nothing to tap, I just hide them until I know they're active again. Actually, I wouldn't drop some of my neighbors if they quit altogether.
ravendarkstorm
10 years ago
I give people the benefit of doubt and let them linger for 8 weeks unless I'm hurting for event collecting. If I have around 15 people not around for over a week into an event I will clean up and post in the add me thread to replenish. You can usually tell how long they have been gone by what is going on in their SF. If they have a building under construction for weeks on end for example. There are a number of other similar indicators that they haven't been around for a long time.
mystery2mi
Seasoned Newcomer
10 years ago
Pinpal00 wrote:
Replacements are easy to find:

http://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh422aQlPy1qc4debo1_500.gif

However, am I the only person who uses the hide function? I've had one neighbor hidden for a long time. This event, he's been visiting frequently, and I'm visiting in return. It's a great town, so I wasn't going to drop him anyway. In fact, I'm fine if my neighbors want to take some time off: if there's nothing to tap, I just hide them until I know they're active again. Actually, I wouldn't drop some of my neighbors if they quit altogether.

I use the hide function if a neighbor doesn't have anything to tap for a few days. I call it my "watch list". If there's no activity for 3 weeks or more, they're gone... During this event however, I'm being ruthless. Need those blueprints! I even dumped a couple of family members. Hated to do it but both of them have been inactive for months. Normally, I'm far more lenient though.
katie7617
10 years ago
Mumble_Taker wrote:
One neighbor was gone for 1 day but had nothing to tap so I dropped them :evil:

Another neighbor has been gone 16 weeks but I'm still able to dump trash into their Krustyland so I have no reason to dump them :twisted:

It's never about how often you play. It's all about having something for me to tap :D

I agree, I only ever go to check how long since they have played if there is nothing to tap.
mikepellerin60
Seasoned Newcomer
10 years ago
5 weeks. But I have some ling time friends who have not even started SH or the Monorail yet, but they still have tappables. (Tappables is a perfectly cromulent word). :D
mrsoctober12
10 years ago
I have a neighbor who hasn't played in 10 weeks...and counting. I hope they are all right.
sandwedgeking
10 years ago
Pinpal00 wrote:
However, am I the only person who uses the hide function? I've had one neighbor hidden for a long time. This event, he's been visiting frequently, and I'm visiting in return. It's a great town, so I wasn't going to drop him anyway. In fact, I'm fine if my neighbors want to take some time off: if there's nothing to tap, I just hide them until I know they're active again. Actually, I wouldn't drop some of my neighbors if they quit altogether.
1. Re: Pinpal's ("final") Height's Design
http://media.giphy.com/media/zz00w5nNFMnPq/giphy.gif

2. To be honest, is it necessary to have a full list of neighboreenos at this point? The extra assistance during events seems nominal and outside of events (unless you need in-game cash) even less.

3. I liberally use the hide function and have a handful of neighbors whom haven't played in months but have such nice towns and/or were once forum regulars, I await their return. (Here is a pic, as proof of said statement. http://i.imgur.com/iIEdF9b.jpg?2 - from a similar thread :wink: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/10288896.page back in February - all still neighbors, seven months later).

4. I liberally use the hide function (during events). If I don't see your name for a few days and have dropped by you town consistently, off to the naughty list you go...as long as it doesn't affect my progress, we're cool - when I see you again, you'll see me again.

5. I liberally use the hide function (outside of events). It's unrealistic for me to visit 100 neighbors daily (Ain't nobody got time fo dat). My list is full. I got a job, I got stuff to do. At any given time, easily half of my neighbors are hidden. Also feels like many of them feel the same way, which is nice. They don't visit me regularly, but are still active. They have nice towns, but I don't feel obligated to pop in consistently if they don't...

Ultimately, I haven't found very many neighbors abandoning the game as of late. Tappers gonna tap.
liseloteng899
10 years ago
When i see they dont play, like i just deleted someone with no SH no monorail but also no tapball
Hasnt played for 16 weeks, so i dropped that person.
If i cant tap anything i hide them a while, still no luck after a few weeks they are gone...

Real life does get in the way and maybe they have bigger worries that tapping so i do give it some times

And as sandwedgeking said: visiting 100 neighbours daily, i aint got time for that!
lisasimpsonoh
10 years ago
Pinpal00 wrote:
Replacements are easy to find:

http://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh422aQlPy1qc4debo1_500.gif

However, am I the only person who uses the hide function? I've had one neighbor hidden for a long time. This event, he's been visiting frequently, and I'm visiting in return. It's a great town, so I wasn't going to drop him anyway. In fact, I'm fine if my neighbors want to take some time off: if there's nothing to tap, I just hide them until I know they're active again. Actually, I wouldn't drop some of my neighbors if they quit altogether.

I use the hide function. I've had good neighbors who have taken breaks and then come back (as have I, and I can take more than two weeks off for a vacation), but then I only keep about 50 neighbors. More than that and it takes too long to visit them all, and 50 works well for me.

I hope my current neighbors are more lenient than others on here and don't consider dropping me right now. They can get into my town but I can't, so I can't clear buildings or visit them.
EvaMohlin
10 years ago
I also think that the leader board is a good help. If they have 0 currency of whatever the event is, I go and check them after a week or so. Usually I give them 1 week after that, if there is no progress.

But sometimes you can "use" their towns for a long time anyway, like dumping garbage os so. Then when nothing left to tap, and I check up on them it says "last played 6 weeks ago". Oh... well, off with their heads...