Worth visiting friends?

hondab16tune wrote:


I visit all 90+ of my friends with their 3 taps EVERYDAY whether there is an event going on or not. It takes me a few minutes, but who cares. They take the time to make a nice town, and put effort into their game, so why shouldn't I reward them by helping them. I have all level 41 players on my list minus a few newer players, level 20 or under, and help them as much as possible. I expect that my neighbors will visit me, and trust me I KNOW who has been and who hasn't been. If I see a player ONLY tapping the lodge, and not any other buildings, THEY WILL GET DELETED.

I have a pretty simple system too. If I go into my town and the lodge is tapped, I take note of who it was. I then tap all my other pyramids and if that name doesn't pop up, I write it down and wait about an hour. If that name hasn't tapped any more buildings, they get a strike. I then make a note over the next few days and see if they are only "Lodge hunting". If they get 3 strikes, THEY ARE DELETED.

Players are failing to understand that this event is based on VISITING friends and GETTING VISITED. It's not about tapping a neighbors town to earn as much as YOU can, but about HELPING your neighbors.

Awesome! I was worried I was the only one doing this! Drives me nuts that people can play a game like this so selfishly when it is intended to be a 'social' game.

I don't care if somebody only clicks my lodge- I figure they don't have time, which is fine. I just check in a lot and clear the lodge, which I'd like all my neighbours to do. Donuts are still the real score for me so I visit everybody. If I get 100 emblems and a donut on my route, good day to me.

But it sure is time consuming to first look for lodges and then come back around for the rest, even though you begin focused on the lodge in each town. I don't know why they settled on 60 actions but I'll still get everything I want.

Just clear them lodges!

hondab16tune wrote:

EmceeHammer wrote:
You have to be keeping some sort of tally or spreadsheet to figure out who isn't vising your town daily. Or you could always guess. Either way, my inactivity counter is never past 24 hours, I log on multiple times a day so there's no way they are going to delete from "inactvitiy." You can't say that its "heavily" reliant when you get 30,000 emblems from the #1 daily quests. Among the rest of the quests, robed guys, visiting friends once every few days, or having other friends visiting and checking daily I probably get 20-30 friends at least from my list visit will make almost 150 emblems a day there will be plenty of room.

Without friends you would not get to about 1/2 way finished with all the items. You need around 1250 emblems a day to complete the items. With the 400 max from #1's quests, and 100 from the parchment quests, you still need 750 to reach BARE MINIMUM. At max if you only hunt for lodges you can only get 300 emblems meaning that you would still be 450 short. The robed guys are derived from friends visiting your town. The more friends that visit, the more robed guys show up.

Actually, you can get up to 1000 per day from #1's quests - 150 + 200 + 250 + 400. Once you get the treasure chest, that will give you another 40 per day (2 X 20). So you can get pretty close without visiting, but where's the fun in that. It's nice just knowing that you're helping out others! (The cash and extra emblems doesn't hurt either)

It's worth visiting friends when the game actually works. I'm getting the "Can't Connect to Server" nonsense again, so I've only managed to visit ten friends in the last hour. Not going to keep this up for much longer.

Jedihntr wrote:
It's worth visiting friends when the game actually works. I'm getting the "Can't Connect to Server" nonsense again, so I've only managed to visit ten friends in the last hour. Not going to keep this up for much longer.

We're friends. You can skip me. I don't mind. I know the frustration of playing on a device that is a p.o.s.

My first 60 taps are Lodge only. I run through all of my friends multiple times until I get those Lodge taps in. Sometimes I get to tap the Lodge 3x for the same neighbour. (obviously playing at the same time I am) After tapping 60 Lodges I start again and complete tapping all my friends (ignoring the Lodge, so others can tap it). I usually get my 60 taps late in the evening, so the rest is done the following day.

I don't keep taps on who visits me and what they tap. It's just too much effort.

HappyGamer73 wrote:

hondab16tune wrote:

EmceeHammer wrote:
You have to be keeping some sort of tally or spreadsheet to figure out who isn't vising your town daily. Or you could always guess. Either way, my inactivity counter is never past 24 hours, I log on multiple times a day so there's no way they are going to delete from "inactvitiy." You can't say that its "heavily" reliant when you get 30,000 emblems from the #1 daily quests. Among the rest of the quests, robed guys, visiting friends once every few days, or having other friends visiting and checking daily I probably get 20-30 friends at least from my list visit will make almost 150 emblems a day there will be plenty of room.

Without friends you would not get to about 1/2 way finished with all the items. You need around 1250 emblems a day to complete the items. With the 400 max from #1's quests, and 100 from the parchment quests, you still need 750 to reach BARE MINIMUM. At max if you only hunt for lodges you can only get 300 emblems meaning that you would still be 450 short. The robed guys are derived from friends visiting your town. The more friends that visit, the more robed guys show up.

Actually, you can get up to 1000 per day from #1's quests - 150 + 200 + 250 + 400. Once you get the treasure chest, that will give you another 170 per day (2 X 85). So you can get pretty close without visiting, but where's the fun in that. It's nice just knowing that you're helping out others! (The cash and extra emblems doesn't hurt either)

Also the robed guys aren't friend related, they're time related (like the bunnies were).

I visit every day during the week, I don't play much on the weekends, during the events I do the bare minimum on the weekends, and out of events might not log in at all.

You absolutely don't have to visit friends to be successful in this event, but it really does make it easier. I don't track if folks visit / don't visit. I only track if they have clickable things when I visit. Over time, it becomes obvious. The update that brings us out to the current location in the friends list has made it easier to clear non-playing towns now too. I haven't added anyone since Halloween, but have definitely cut down folks. Makes it faster to get through my list, but need to add some anyway. by visiting all friends daily, I get enough to make it okay for me slack on the weekends and not get behind. Plus it helps others out.

direwolf987 wrote:

Jedihntr wrote:
It's worth visiting friends when the game actually works. I'm getting the "Can't Connect to Server" nonsense again, so I've only managed to visit ten friends in the last hour. Not going to keep this up for much longer.

We're friends. You can skip me. I don't mind. I know the frustration of playing on a device that is a p.o.s.

My device is awesome, it's the game that's occasionally a p.o.s. :wink:

I'm almost up to you, and I'm not giving up just yet, ha.

hondab16tune wrote:

EmceeHammer wrote:
You have to be keeping some sort of tally or spreadsheet to figure out who isn't vising your town daily. Or you could always guess. Either way, my inactivity counter is never past 24 hours, I log on multiple times a day so there's no way they are going to delete from "inactvitiy." You can't say that its "heavily" reliant when you get 30,000 emblems from the #1 daily quests. Among the rest of the quests, robed guys, visiting friends once every few days, or having other friends visiting and checking daily I probably get 20-30 friends at least from my list visit will make almost 150 emblems a day there will be plenty of room.

Without friends you would not get to about 1/2 way finished with all the items. You need around 1250 emblems a day to complete the items. With the 400 max from #1's quests, and 100 from the parchment quests, you still need 750 to reach BARE MINIMUM. At max if you only hunt for lodges you can only get 300 emblems meaning that you would still be 450 short. The robed guys are derived from friends visiting your town. The more friends that visit, the more robed guys show up.

Is this confirmed? It's the first I've seen this idea. I just assumed they were generated over time, like ghosts or bunnies were.

Jedihntr wrote:

direwolf987 wrote:

Jedihntr wrote:
It's worth visiting friends when the game actually works. I'm getting the "Can't Connect to Server" nonsense again, so I've only managed to visit ten friends in the last hour. Not going to keep this up for much longer.

We're friends. You can skip me. I don't mind. I know the frustration of playing on a device that is a p.o.s.

My device is awesome, it's the game that's occasionally a p.o.s. :wink:

I'm almost up to you, and I'm not giving up just yet, ha.

Well, my Samsung Note 7 is a p.o.s, when it comes to this game. I found that when it crashes (and it crashes a lot) it's actually quicker just to reset the entire device rather then try a log in 5 times only to have it crash. I only use it when on rare occasions now. Would rather use my small phone screen and not have problems with crashing.