I've got enough "short-time" buildings I think I bridge the middle of the issue nicely.*Simpsons House (45sec)*3x Kwik-E-Marts (3mins)*7 Brown Houses (as a "camp") (5mins)*Flanders' House (10mins)*2x Krusty Burgers (15mins)*Fortune Teller, Van Houten House, Presents Depot (all 1hr)That's 17 buildings tapable in an hr after I finish (or 6 friends worth). I make sure to clear those out if they're tapped so they refresh for a new set of friends to visit.I think if you log in semi-regularly you should be fine. I do 4hr stints during the day, so first batch has 26+ buildings "available" before 4hr buildings are ready. Second set of the day has 36+ buildings (all the 6hr ones as well).

You get friend points for graffiti - both tagging in friends' towns and cleaning up your own. I haven't tried cleaning graffiti in someone else's town, so I'm no sure how that works yet.(Guess thus puts an end to the notion that graffiti-R-bad.)

Aennilya wrote:You get friend points for graffiti - both tagging in friends' towns and cleaning up your own. I haven't tried cleaning graffiti in someone else's town, so I'm no sure how that works yet.(Guess thus puts an end to the notion that graffiti-R-bad.)I'm still not sure if graffiti isn't "bad". I did a bunch of neighbors buildings and I dropped down to 2 stars for righteousness. I would have thought EA would filter that out since we now get friend points for cleaning our own graffiti. It's all so confusing.

wait, what???whats with this collecting/neighbor thing??? I have to NOT collect the stuff on my houses so you guys can collect it?! and how do you make characters "open" to my neighbor clicks?? its pretty annoying when I visit someones farm, search everywhere and nothing is clickable.... why is that? is it beause someone already clicked it and the farm owner hasnt collected it yet or what?can you guys click the characters on my farm that are busy doing jobs??? sure seems like it.I think someone clicked my cletus crop and made it grow instantly...is that possible to help a neighbor like that?

CBonez89 wrote:wait, what???whats with this collecting/neighbor thing??? I have to NOT collect the stuff on my houses so you guys can collect it?! and how do you make characters "open" to my neighbor clicks?? its pretty annoying when I visit someones farm, search everywhere and nothing is clickable.... why is that? is it beause someone already clicked it and the farm owner hasnt collected it yet or what?can you guys click the characters on my farm that are busy doing jobs??? sure seems like it.I think someone clicked my cletus crop and made it grow instantly...is that possible to help a neighbor like that?Try to graffiti your neighbors for this event, if your crop does a friend and tap it and it will regenerate it back to life to give you a chance to collect it again.

if my crop dies?? how does it die?

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darrenholm736
Rising Newcomer
11 years ago
nascarchamp0 wrote:
Let's not forget about Krustyland, you can collect from there as well.

Great call. 8)
lightestbulb
11 years ago
nascarchamp0 wrote:
Let's not forget about Krustyland, you can collect from there as well.

Yep. I'm strapped for cash and clear my main town pretty frequently, but only visit Krustyland 1-2 times per day. I've already been seeing my neighbors take advantage of this.
mwdalton
New Spectator
11 years ago
nascarchamp0 wrote:
Let's not forget about Krustyland, you can collect from there as well.

Thanks for the tip!!!
spidergirl79
11 years ago
I'm no house farmer but I do have a number of houses that regenerate their money overnight and plenty of other stuff that regenerates as well. It hasn't seemed to be a problem so far. I play several times a day and have a lot of friends visiting. So far I'm loving the update.
bren1960
11 years ago
First of all, if u have 100 friends, skip the other sf. U can go back if u want.
Second, even if u run out keep going because they still benefit. Especially if u spray paint
GamerGD3
11 years ago
I don't get why this issue is a concern. The neighbors will tap it, then you tap the handshake. You are then "collecting" from it, the timer is reset, etc. So just clean graffiti and do tasks. You get much more cash from tasks, and the $100 you miss on Gulp N Blow is basically meaningless. Someone will tap it if you have lots of friends.

If a town has nothing to do, I skip it. It's not worth 3 measly friend points later, I already wasted time trying to find things to tap on.

In terms of daily income, collection from buildings is a very minor part of it. The majority of income is the tasks you do throughout the day.
bren1960
11 years ago
Too bad u can't bounce from KL to KL. Just SF to SF
annettemarc
11 years ago
The irony is that we tell new players that the way to succeed is to get 100 neighbors, and we point them to the "Add Me" thread. unfortunately most of the people they will be adding (from the add me thread) are ALSO new players. And what a new player needs most of all is cash, and sending characters on tasks generates money, but if all you have is ten characters, then rent from buildings means A LOT.

So now new players are visiting other new players like crazy, not finding anything to tap in one another's towns, AND they're not collecting rent!

Catch-22 indeed.
betha75
11 years ago
I just added a few extra brown and (i think) pink houses around my landing zone that i only collect when they have handshakes on them, that way I can collect the rest of my higher-earning buildings while still leaving my neighbors something to tap. So far it has worked out really well :)
xamovo
11 years ago
betha75 wrote:
I just added a few extra brown and (i think) pink houses around my landing zone that i only collect when they have handshakes on them, that way I can collect the rest of my higher-earning buildings while still leaving my neighbors something to tap. So far it has worked out really well :)

I keep six brown houses (enough for two friends to visit) in a corner since Christmas. Sometimes I'm on a lot and so even my Simpson house and KEMs are tapped, so the browns are never tapped by me except to clear handshakes.

I don't have them in the landing zone because my LZ is full of futzy little details and it would be a huge pain to move stuff around. I think a permanent LZ marker (like the present depot at Christmas) really needs to come out. I'd move my graffiti buildings near each other and pop the marker down with them.