How to find GOOD friends?

k8rk8rk8r wrote:
All of my original friends came from the Halloween "Add Me" thread and, not surprisingly, they fizzled out soon after adding. I've found a handful of great neighbors here on the forums, and have spend the last few weeks weeding out non-players and adding people from my neighbor request queue.

I have a list of probably 15-20 people that don't visit that I'll be deleting if they don't pick up when the Christmas update hits. Once that happens I'll probably again turn to the forums to find friends -- the success rate of PMd friends is much higher than randoms.

Good luck to you! I too play multiple times every single day, and visit all my neighbors daily, so it's rough when people don't visit in return. Hope you find some good'ns! :wink:

^ is a great neighbor!! :)

^ Is ALSO a great neighbor! :mrgreen:

I started sometime November 2012 and I still have many of my initial friends. I have some friends who visit every day, some who visit once a week or so, some who visit in spurts of activity - often when they fiddle with their town, and some who only visit during events. But overall my friends are champs. It takes time to build a good friends list so I would try not to judge rashly. For instance, some truly excellent neighbors play in bursts as their time allows. And also, as your level increases neighbor visits become less significant except during events.

I like to ask the forum guys n gals in the show case section. Because I don't really care if they vist or not. I'm more interested in seeing creative towns.

That is what I love about this game, so many amazing towns that think out the box and not just copy others. I keep my list small so I can visit easy and often and also spend time looking at there new designs.

The key is to ask first. Most people Rarely ever say no.

As ppl suggested forum reg are your best bet as you get a rough idea on how they play. E.g I'm not gona have a neighbour who dictates what buildings I type. I do help out with the tile glitch but I won't be told :lol:

I only ever use the add me sections if I need neighbours fast but also understand that most of them will be low lvl and may have farms. But we were all there ones :mrgreen:

I count myself lucky to have so many wonderful neighbors on my list! I have been tweaking this list since the Valentine's event - there are even a few names left who exchanged Valentines with me way back then. :wink:

At each new event I have removed non-active or non-visiting players in favor of forum regulars and newbies who need my constant visits :mrgreen: to help build their towns. I'm at 100 neighbors right now, with only a few who don't seem to be visiting/playing.

I really need some good friends too. First time posting, but I read the posts every day. I visit my town several times a day and visit my friends every day. Please add me. I'm PMing some of you as suggested here. Hope to become your friend.

I'm in the same boat. I am unable to visit everyone every day because I'm pretty busy in real life but I do play every day. When I visit my friends I always click the Squidport and try to be a good neighbor. I've been thinking about downsizing to only my friends who visit me back. I have around 98 friends and I can count on one hand the people who visit me regularly. And only 2 check my Squidport. I'm level 37 with no house farms. My town's not as fancy as yours but you can add me if you'd like :)

While I play everyday it is hard to visit 100 people everyday, so I break it up, I visit 50 a day, but the issue is that I have only about 20 people (maybe ) that visit on a regular basis outside of a holiday event. I try to add those that seem to be active and I don't dictate on what they should tap or not tap.

I think it is just trial and error, during the holiday event I kicked those to the curb that after the first week had not collected any goo, then added others that requested. If they too didn't play or remained stagnant for a while then they were booted too.

You also can't trust your friends list when it says that so-n-so hasn't logged on for 2 months, 3 weeks, 5 days etc because I had someone that visited most days and the friends list said that the person hadn't been on in 3 months! I have since come to the conclusion that the "logged In" means that they haven't come to EA.com and logged onto the website, although I could be wrong.

I also don't cut anyone out just because their SF is small or they don't have a squid port etc, these players can become obsessive with the game and during a holiday even be up in levels before you know it and can end up being one of your best neighbors by the end of the event.

I think a good friend comes to you during the holiday events and try's to click on your stuff and visits regularly, it may not be everyday, but hey.....we all got lives outside of this game right.........right?......ha ha....

Arlandria606 wrote:
If I may suggest... a lot of the forum regulars will probably clear out their friends list a few days after the Christmas update hits. They'll see that people they suspected of being inactive haven't got the update and boom, they're gone to make way for currently active players in order to maximise festive revenue.

That's what I'm planning on doing, anyway.

That's a great way to tell. I noticed that at Halloween but didn't delete anyone. For Christmas, I think I'll be dropping any friends that don't get the update in a few days.

Definitely trial and error. I think I'm up to about 2/3rds of people visiting me. But it's so much easier to * out people who don't visit during events. I was doing deletes and re-adds on a weekly basis during Halloween. Plus, I kind of suck at visiting in the off season, so I'm trying to refrain from deleting anyone until Christmas starts.

Even though my other game was started in Aug 2012, I didn't start adding friends I didn't know IRL until WD. Didn't need them then.