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?

Ftball2theGroin
10 years ago
When I first started playing, visiting neighbors (and being visited by neighbors) seemed to be integral to progressing in events. Since then, EA has made almost every event playable with just a handful of neighbors so I no longer cull my neighbor list. I have two neighbors who haven't logged on in over a year, but I like their towns so much that I've never deleted them. After an event with currency, their towns usually reset and everything is tappable again. I am probably their only active friend so I almost never succeed in exhausting their town before the next event.

Although it is super easy to delete and add new people, the new ones are rarely any better than the old unless they're forum regulars.
littlecat32
10 years ago
I've been playing since March and have yet to delete. I have hidden several neighbours who have been inactive for over a month, but I don't see the need to replace those neighbours yet. It takes enough time already to go through the list of active neighbours, and I've been able to finish events without needing more neighbours to tap on my town. Just had a neighbour (whom I had hidden) come back from a long absence, so you never know.
yukongirl123
10 years ago
*runs off to visit neighbours*
pokelon
10 years ago
After 4/5 weeks.
When there's nothing tappable in a town I verify how long they haven't played, if it's over 5 days I hide them. Then I check in on them from time to time and finally delete after 4/5 weeks (so I'm sure it's not just a glitch or a Holiday). I prefer to have active forum members as you can easily check in on them here. I admit I haven't been around for a while (holidays and a new job) on the forum.....but at least I still see everyone in the game. :mrgreen:
jaztee123
10 years ago
I used not bother and just leave them, but now if it's been four weeks or more, I delete.
C0rgano
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

this, more or less.... as long as I have something to tap (especially during events), I don't even bother to check when their last login time was.... if there's nothing to tap, I'll monitor their last login, but I still won't boot them until it's been 3-4 weeks... (just booted two today for that, and sent out two new friend requests to refill the slots)
mathumster385
10 years ago
Sorta related, but I started tracking how many neighbors are tapping my town this event. About a 1/3 of my friends leave garbage in my town. Is that about in line with what others get? Been wondering if I should be looking for folks who are more into the events like I am.
mystery2mi
Seasoned Newcomer
10 years ago
mathumster385 wrote:
Sorta related, but I started tracking how many neighbors are tapping my town this event. About a 1/3 of my friends leave garbage in my town. Is that about in line with what others get? Been wondering if I should be looking for folks who are more into the events like I am.

Same for me. I think the problem is your username starts with "M" like mine. Some people think that if their name is at the end of the alphabet they get skipped. That may be so, but I go through my neighbors from Z-A so I can tap the arrow with my left thumb. People in the middle get skipped more IMO. I also think that some people only tap neighbors until they stop getting event currency. This event is a little different because having every neighbor give you 3 taps is beneficial. Normally I don't care if neighbors visit, but having 100 neighbors could potentially yield 300 duct tapes every day! I don't remember an event like this for a long time. Seems kind of selfish to me to have 100 neighbors and only visit the first 30 to get what you want!

So bottom line, please visit ALL of your neighbors!
hot4daryldixon
10 years ago
1 week during events unless I haven't been able to tap their town for 72 hours.
C0rgano
10 years ago
mathumster385 wrote:
Sorta related, but I started tracking how many neighbors are tapping my town this event. About a 1/3 of my friends leave garbage in my town. Is that about in line with what others get? Been wondering if I should be looking for folks who are more into the events like I am.

can't say I pay attention/keep track of how many visit me (nice if they do, especially during events).... but I try to make it a point to get through my entire neighbor list daily... the occasional bonus donut is always a nice thing to nab while tapping through them all (picked up 4 yesterday)