Neighbor Etiquette

I normally drop 1 or 2 in each town, especially if the person looks behind. That said, I have found a few people (quite by accident) that are usually on around the same time as me. For those people, I drop the full 10 knowing that they'll be on in the next couple of minutes to clear them out. If they're fast enough, I'll even send another round or 2. I get the full benefit, and I don't flood their towns for a long period of time

All my friends must love me (or have figured out I have OCD) because I get Terror bombed all day long. And since I can't resist tapping them out (especially when they're sitting in one spot jiggling...) the next visitor drops 10 more. And to make things worse my game freezes and stutters for 2 to 4 seconds every time I hit one (slow satellite internet).

After my first round of dropping FTs I've just been dropping one or two in each town as I can - unless I know them or want to show my appreciation for removing all their streets except for a confined area so I can find Nightmares to tap. (Hint, hint)

janis810 wrote:
Today after visiting 80 neighbors, I was only able to drop blobs in 38 towns. The rest were full. The other neighbors don't know I tried to drop blobs, unless I visit again, and we all know how long that takes. So, I'm wondering, is there an etiquette to visiting? Should we not fill the quota, leaving nothing for others? Maybe it's better to leave one or two blobs, so others can also say, "Hey! I've been here!" than to fill the quota up to ten. I want to say to my neighbors, "Hey I like you - here are ten blobs!" but would it be wiser to be less exuberant and only leave 2, so the neighbors following can also express their neighborliness? Thoughts, anyone?

My thought is that you are over thinking it.

This is a game, so you just have fun and play how you feel comfortable. You don't make yourself uncomfortable trying to guess what's convenient for dozens of random people.

Leave what you can, move on. I visit my neighbors multiple times per day, depending on the feedback I'm getting from their participation notifications. A few of my friends must live logged in 24-7, so they drop FTs on me a lot, and i respond asap for the max benefit to each of us.

So sometimes i leave 0-1, and sometimes i leave 10. No stress either way.

Keep calm and tap on!

I'm finding it hard as well. You can add me @ sevenof79

sevenof79 wrote:
I'm finding it hard as well. You can add me @ sevenof79

i tried to add you but couldn't make sense of the maths. What is sevenof79?

I like the idea, but for me, I run into so many who are full. When I get one that has slots, I fill them. My game is so laggy and it takes so long for towns to load that I dump as many as I can where I can. Are you having trouble dropping my town? I am only able to get on a few times a day and I have 10 running around every time.

My game has been crashing on neighbor visits so I have about 270 blobs to drop. If I'm lucky enough to visit a friend I drop ten blobs because well, I may not get to visit them again for a few days.

It took me a few days to figure out, what I think would be the best method in distributing Formless Terrors (FT) to assist my 40-50 neighbors (and myself of course :P ).

The last couple of days I start the day with approx. 60-70 terrors, but some days I might have accumulated a bit more (100-ish)
Here is what I do with them:

During the daily visits, I will dump 1 or 2 FT per neighbor, depending on the amount I have when I start. If I get a FT from that neighbor during visiting his/her town I will spent that FT back into that town as well.
There are always neighbors in which towns I cannot release FT, because they're full. We all have that and for me it hovers around 10%. Those FT that I cannot spent for that neighbor will remain part of my stock. If I get a FT from that neighbor in their town this also becomes also part of my stock.
At the end of the rounds I end up with less (but not zero) FT, lets say around 30.
Those 30 FT will be used by me for neighbors who release FT in my town. Typically I return 5 as a minimum with 2 sidenotes:
a) if their town is full, I will try to remember to return the favor at a later time, but this is no guarantee.
b) if they only have room for less then 5, I will fill their town up untill it's full and what remains stays in my stock.
I will release 10 FT in a neighbors town, if I:
a) get an in-game message telling me neighborX has released FT in my town or,
b) get a notification (while not playing) and I'm able to logon at that moment...

... to immediately return the favor. Most of the time they are still online, their town is free of FT and I can release 10 of them which they can then collect
For some of neighbors I know in which timezone they live, because they play when I'm http://www.motor-forum.nl/global/smileys/sleephappy.gif. For them I will release 5-10 FT in their town when I start http://www.motor-forum.nl/global/smileys/yawnee.gif and go to bed.

In the meantime I will collect FT from my own town adding to my stock during normal play. Because I'm on vacation, I can collect almost every nightmare the game generates and also keep the kids busy for most of the time and have them tell 5 stories in 24 hours.



So that's it and now I going to visit the neighbors. :)

ndeeka wrote:
It took me a few days to figure out, what I think would be the best method in distributing Formless Terrors (FT) to assist my 40-50 neighbors (and myself of course :P ).

The last couple of days I start the day with approx. 60-70 terrors, but some days I might have accumulated a bit more (100-ish)
Here is what I do with them:

During the daily visits, I will dump 1 or 2 FT per neighbor, depending on the amount I have when I start. If I get a FT from that neighbor during visiting his/her town I will spent that FT back into that town as well.
There are always neighbors in which towns I cannot release FT, because they're full. We all have that and for me it hovers around 10%. Those FT that I cannot spent for that neighbor will remain part of my stock. If I get a FT from that neighbor in their town this also becomes also part of my stock.
At the end of the rounds I end up with less (but not zero) FT, lets say around 30.
Those 30 FT will be used by me for neighbors who release FT in my town. Typically I return 5 as a minimum with 2 sidenotes:
a) if their town is full, I will try to remember to return the favor at a later time, but this is no guarantee.
b) if they only have room for less then 5, I will fill their town up untill it's full and what remains stays in my stock.
I will release 10 FT in a neighbors town, if I:
a) get an in-game message telling me neighborX has released FT in my town or,
b) get a notification (while not playing) and I'm able to logon at that moment...

... to immediately return the favor. Most of the time they are still online, their town is free of FT and I can release 10 of them which they can then collect
For some of neighbors I know in which timezone they live, because they play when I'm http://www.motor-forum.nl/global/smileys/sleephappy.gif. For them I will release 5-10 FT in their town when I start http://www.motor-forum.nl/global/smileys/yawnee.gif and go to bed.

In the meantime I will collect FT from my own town adding to my stock during normal play. Because I'm on vacation, I can collect almost every nightmare the game generates and also keep the kids busy for most of the time and have them tell 5 stories in 24 hours.



So that's it and now I going to visit the neighbors. :)

:thumbup:

to bad my game chrashes so much while visiting, when it work i always visited your town!

milkaholic991 wrote:
I usually drop maybe 2-3 per town until I get to the bottom chunk of my neighbor list because I know they don't fill up ever so I give them more. The top half at least are either full or can only drop a few anyways. Being an "m" name, I doubt I get 10 a day despite clearing every four or so hours.

I usually try to visit the "m"s but will make more of an effort now. :)