Vandalism- What a friend...

fred_bra wrote:

SamCarterX206 wrote:
It's not screwing your friends. It's actually helping them.

What happens is when YOU do the spraying, YOU take a slight hit on your Righteousness rating. The graffiti has no effect on your friend's Righteousness rating immediately- but when they clean it up, it will RAISE their Righteousness rating. See, it's actually beneficial to them, and that's why it's advocated so much, and why so many people welcome it- in fact it is the preferred friend action for a lot of players.

Oh, in that case, I'm sorry for my post!
It could be a coincidence, but I believe when people spray my town more often in a week, my rating fells!
I always search for sprayed buildings in my friends town to clean them up, trying to help them not get a hit on the ratings.
The Righteousness is so hard to understand!

Thanks for your answer, and I will not get angry with spray on my town anymore!

Yeah, the Righteousness rating is bit shaky. No one can quite figure out exactly how it works, but's it's generally accepted that graffiti (both sides) is great way of boosting it- but there is a wide range of effectiveness- some report no effect and other report jumping right up to 5 stars from 2 or 3 right after they start the graffiti cycle.

Me, I find that if I haven't visited my friends in a while, or at least did something graffiti related, my righteousness rating will plummet, but visiting a few friends for a paint session or getting lucky and having a few of my buildings painted immediately brings it right up.