Question: Are feeder towns killing the game?
how would it be different if they were not feeder towns? how would you enforce "no feeder towns" since many family members play on different devices You actually should be clamoring for feeder...
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NarraMine88 wrote:annettemarc wrote:NarraMine88 wrote:neuroheart wrote:NarraMine88 wrote:
Using 10 feeder towns to bump up event currency is cheating in my book.
No, it isn't. A feeder town gives the exact same benefit as having a really good neighbor. (Which is why I haven't bothered, tbh, I have plenty of really good neighbors.)
It's just not cricket, though. I know it's not against any official rules but EA hardly encourages this, do they? Imagine..
Christmas 2014
1. Put Elves in jars by tapping in your town and fire them from the cannon to earn bells!
2. Earn bells by visiting friends!
3. Make yourself 15 feeder towns for "easier" bells! Hell, why not make 20?
How is it "easier" to visit a feeder town than a friend town? Heck, a friend will clear the handshake in their town FOR me, with zero effort on my part. For a handshake in a feeder to be cleared, I need to log out of my town, log into the feeder, clear the handshake, log out of the feeder, and log back into my town. It is much, much, much harder. I don't have a friend doing the work for me.
I suppose it's because you don't have to wait for your friends to log in... Here's what I mean..
For example Christmas 2014... If you want to double your bells from friends you must only tap cannons or elf tunnels. However, this is a pain as many people only visit once or twice a day leaving only buildings to tap. Replace those friends with feeders and....
I don't see how it's easier either. The amount of time it must take to log in and out of these feeder towns makes me feel bored just thinking about it. Yet people still do it. Here's my other example... The big one..
Whacking Day. Has a lot to answer for where feeder towns are concerned. Trading eggs took ages (don't get me wrong, I loved it) and often required correspondence with friends over Origin to organise the trading of eggs. Feeder towns made that MUCH easier. Every event is differeent and in some events, feeder towns really aren't that much help at all.
Lol. Yeah, good thing I wasn't around for whacking day. For one thing, I'm in California and its surprising how few TSTO people I find are from here. The great majority of my neighbors are from far away (points helpfully toward Europe). By the time I'm online at 7AM it's 3pm over there, and by the time I do my afternoon or evening rounds, Europe is fast asleep. I have a dozen towns, none connected to my main town, all linked to my son's town. He has no time to be a reliable friend to anyone. So his 12 moms are his neighbors. He's 34, and here I am still "feeding" him. ;)
