Unhelpful help from "friends"

Wow, some people take this game wayyy too seriously. Anyone can feel free to unfriend me for something stupid and petty like this. That's better than having a whiny jerk for a neighbor.

1. I don't want to go searching for everything. I don't have unlimited battery (seriously I play the game for 15 minutes after a full charge and I get the 20% remaining message. When this message appears, you get BOOTED out of the neighbor's town and back to your own. So then you have to go all the way back to finish). If I can tap it, I'll take it. You want your "high priced buildings" to get clicked on? Move them to the center of your town when visitors first appear.

2. I don't always have time to examine towns, as the friend list continues to grow, I want to make sure to visit each one to collect & help. I don't have hours to be studying everyone's towns.

C. (intentional) Oftentimes I visit the town and there's nothing left to click on. So stop logging in every 1-4 hours and collecting everything. I can only see your town once a day, so when my time is up to visit, I'm not going to prolong my income potential on friend income because you are logging in and taking all the good stuff before I arrive.

XBL-Heretic wrote:
I always try to vandalize first, especially if the town has less than five stars. Helping to maintain their conform-o-meter bonus percent is the best way to help friends.

If I can't vandalize, I look for the highest payout buildings I can find. But active players rarely have high payout buildings waiting for collection. After playing for six months now, it's pretty obvious to me upon entering a town whether or not high payout buildings will be available. So some times, especially for friends I know to be active and have five star ratings, I'll automatically hit KB and the brown houses.

@shaunareid, I agree with you in that many people don't like to have logical groupings of buildings out of sync. I try not to tap on just one of the two cemeteries, or break sync in a grouping of like houses. But in the end, if that's all that's available, I'm gonna tap it and be on my way.

Oh yeah don't get me wrong, I totally agree, stil grinds my gears though! :wink: :mrgreen:

xenedar wrote:

Already addressed. I realize this and I already covered this situation. I'm talking about a persistent trend, over the last week, not just a one-off. I'm talking not playing my Springfield for 12 hours and still coming back to $18 of "friend" assistance.

And, yes it is worth complaining about. The fact you refuse to get it says I would unfriend you in a heartbeat. That you think it's perfectly alright that you would enjoy the benefits of me helping you out to the best of my ability, while I would suffer from your inconsiderate nature as you refuse to put in any effort whatsoever. Unfriended instantly.

how do you know it is one person doing it?

And please unfriend me. (if you are my friend) you have no idea of my town or what I do. But to make it easier on my friends that DO visit my town. In the center (the spot everyone appears as soon as they get into town) I have put Moes, police station and the town hall so they all fit in the same screen. Plus more premium items around that. so IF a friend is just quickly tapping through friends (like it was said earlier when you have 100 friends it gets a bit tedious) They can get the 4 hits at once and be done.

Maybe think about moving your "cheap" items away from the middle of your town. You may be surprised...

Haven't noticed that in my town. I might get the odd person who wil tap a brown house etc but one in a good few is tolerable. When I visit friends I usually tap their highest earning building available. I know people think vandalising is the best cause but if you're at 5 stars (like me) I clearly don't need the righteousness rating. That said I still welcome people to spray paint my buildings, I always appreciate it when people visit my town. But I suppose an ideal friend for me would be some one who taps my white houses, blue houses, church, etc, I.e valuable buildings.

Still though, any help is good help!

I completely agree.

I only have friends for the services they can provide me. And if they slack off instead of giving me everything I want when I want it, I de-friend them right away. What could be more important than catering to my whims?

man, you got problems... i can make about $200.000 a day on my own if i really want to. it's nice to see the handshake but i never insited on what anyone should tap on. when i visit i just click on first 3 buildings in sight. unless it's an event, like vday was, i do look for proper tapping. anything else is just wasting time :P

ickshter wrote:

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Maybe think about moving your "cheap" items away from the middle of your town. You may be surprised...

This. I occasionally move my buildings around. Pretty much without fail, the ones that are tapped most often by my neighbors are those in the middle. It takes a long time to visit 100 other Springfields; a lot of people are probably just entering, grabbing what they can, and moving on.

arentwords wrote:
I completely agree.

I only have friends for the services they can provide me. And if they slack off instead of giving me everything I want when I want it, I de-friend them right away. What could be more important than catering to my whims?

+1 :D

I usually vandalize when I can, but generally I don't care much what I hit. Almost all my friends have stellar towns where there isn't that much to click.

I'm pulling in around 600k a day, so I don't care what other people click. It seems strange to me when people click houses in the far corners, but I don't care what they pick to be honestly perfect. I'm going to pull in 220k or more when I do my clears, so building value is the least of my concerns.