Unfriending Etiquette

I'm usually at the 2-3 week mark, sometimes longer... But usually not. :) At a week or so, like lots here said, they could be on vacation/holiday. Even if you have your device, you might be too busy to use it.

Anyway, I deleted a few people recently, so I'll be adding more soon.

I wait and seem to see a pattern of people not playing for a week then two weeks then I delete them ,I have a few places left on my friends list as I deleted those who stopped playing ,as it is time consuming for myself to have 5 town that have nothing to tap ,I do like having players of all levels as I look at there progress as I visit ,I seldom tap and dash :lol:

I posted the exact same question a week ago or so...... :mrgreen:

One thing someone said there was to hide friends that are inactive for a while (it can be either because of the glitch or because of holidays).

I will now hide them for 3 weeks or so (we do have a lot of holidays in Europe 8) ) and then have a look again. If I see nothing has changed I'll delete them.

I have two neighbours who used to be forum regulars that haven't played since the Valentine's update. I can't bring myself to delete them.

When it comes to neigbours I added randomly, I don't hesitate to delete them if they haven't played in a few days and I get requests from other players (especially forum regulars). Maybe they are on holidays, but they'll find new neighbours easily once they're back.

Before the eastern event I didn't delete anyone but I did notice that some neighbours towns are always empty. After the Easter event I noticed that one hadn't played for six months.. So he went. Now I wait for a month ( if it's an old neighbour ) but if it's someone I resently added and they haven't already visited me or played at all for a week, they are off my neighbours list.

I wait about six weeks. but I aso check when they last logged in. If I see they've been logging in but not visiting my town then they go straight away.

There are certain neighbors I won't delete. There are forumites (and former forumites) who have been extremely kind to me, or have just been consistently great neighbors, and I would feel bad about dumping them. There's actually one who I currently cannot visit because his town crashes my game, and I still wouldn't delete him. There's also my BF, who I of course wouldn't delete.

Otherwise it depends on events. If someone regularly disappears, they get a week. If someone disappears during an event, they get a few days, bit longer if they're a forumite. If someone played regularly and then disappears and it's not an event, I'd give them a month.

If I visit their Springfield for a week straight and I find nothing to tap I check to see if they are still playing. If it says that they haven't played in over a week, I delete them. I like to keep lower leveled players so they can see the things I've earned/bought. I remember visiting other players and starting my " bucket list" of things I wanted to have. I'm sure EA likes the idea of "stuff jealousy" that's how they get new players to buy donuts. On that note, I'm a few shy of 100 friends now due to deleting non- players. Anyone who plays every day is welcome to friend request me.

neuroheart wrote:
There are certain neighbors I won't delete. There are forumites (and former forumites) who have been extremely kind to me, or have just been consistently great neighbors, and I would feel bad about dumping them. There's actually one who I currently cannot visit because his town crashes my game, and I still wouldn't delete him. There's also my BF, who I of course wouldn't delete.

Otherwise it depends on events. If someone regularly disappears, they get a week. If someone disappears during an event, they get a few days, bit longer if they're a forumite. If someone played regularly and then disappears and it's not an event, I'd give them a month.

Oh no! I hope it's not my town crashing your game!

I give 2 weeks before I start looking to delete, and that's only if they're non-forum folks. If forum folks go away for a while, I'll send them a PM to see what's up. :)

I also wanted to add, like many have said, that you need to keep things for other people to tap. I only collect from the buildings that take 12 or more hours to regenerate. I leave the others for my neighbors to tap. P.s. I am a great neighbor.