Questions about friends.

I have an area with about 10 brown houses specifically there to make sure that there's always something for someone to tap. I also avoid low rent buildings, because they repop quickly, I don't get as much money from tapping them in my own town, and visitors always get the same amount no matter what so no foul there. :) I also leave Kwik E Marts untapped, the Simpsons and Flanderises house and a few others untapped.

I have a handful of buildings I only tap if they have handshakes. Mostly brown houses, Flanders House, and Simpson house. They replenish quickly so there's usually something to tap - enough for 2 visitors (not counting graffiti - so 3 visitors). I figure if I'm gone long enough for those to fill up, chances are another building will come ready to tap.

I think it works well enough.

First everyone may have their own preferences so you may not be able to please all your neighbours, but I'm under the impression that most are happy if they have something to tap when they visit your town and you visit them regularly during events.

Here's a few basics:

1. Leave some items untapped: If you tap everything in your town your friends won't be able to tap anything until the timer resets on that item. I leave several items untapped that have quick timers (brown houses, kwiki marts etc.) at all times for neighbours, and try to leave items untapped at my landing zone.

2. Clear handshakes: Once a neighbour visits you and taps a building, no one will be able to tap the item until you clear the handshake. This is most likely why you couldn't tap some cannons, they were already tapped and waiting to be cleared.

3. Visit neighbours regularly: Everyone has their own criteria for removing neighbours, if you never visit, some will remove you. Some don't care as they have enough cash, FPs etc. and are more concerned with events though. I try to tap buildings with longer timers and try to stay in the same area so my neighbour doesn't have to hunt for my taps. Keep in mind that when you tap a building, you've reset the timer and the same goes for a neighbour tapping in your town.

4. Training walls: Consider hiding some of these behind buildings to keep your righteousness rating up. This is a flaky one that sometimes drops out of nowhere but it's partly due to graffiti. If you graffiti your neighbour it may drop this rating for them and same if they graffiti you. Cleaning it up in your town helps boost it up but since it's a bit unpredictable, most will hide training walls to stop it from fluctuating.

I have 51 Brown Houses which I'm usually too lazy to collect from, so I collect from everything else because I know there will be something for friends to tap anyway.

Many thanks for all the helpful replies fellow tappers.
What I'll probably do is leave the Kwiki Marts and one of the purple house farms (in which I have a small amount of brown houses) alone just so that it makes it worth the time of a visit. :-)

Regards and tap on! :lol:

It used to be KEM's and brown houses until they diminished mostly away. I now leave most of my housing untapped,unless there is a handshake.