Tapping on neighbors in event - can it stay like this?

lauriegator

lauriegator wrote:

One of my favorite parts of the event has been tapping on neighbor's cameras. I like this because we get to collect all of our houses, buildings and other things and our neighbors tapping give us an extra bonus.

I usually leave a certain part of my town open for neighbor tapping, so I never collect it. I have 100 neighbors so I leave 200 buildings free for my visitors. I have enjoyed tapping on all of my buildings to collect.

Can we keep it this way? Does anyone know if there are plans to do this?

If not, does anyone have suggestions? How do others with 100 neighbors leave stuff for neighbors so you can collect max cash?

I like it also.

I have some house farms I leave for neighbors. Because I'm a 4hr player, this has not been an issue.

I've heard others say they only click on handshakes.
I cannot afford to do that yet. Need the cash.

Jblue8298

This is one of my favorite things about this event (mechanics-wise). I need to clear my town regularly for the money.

When they first introduced friend points, I believe it was the same - i.e. neighbors could tap anything, as long as a handshake was cleared, and unrelated to your own tapping. But between events I think this got lost.

I, personally, do not enjoy the look of house farms. I had to cut down to clearing my SF to once a day before, in order to leave stuff for neighbors.

Neglecterino

I don't like the look of house farms either, but I don't have the land bought yet to spread it out. Something for me to do between events now that I'm pulling in the $$.

neuroheart

Jblue8298 wrote:

When they first introduced friend points, I believe it was the same - i.e. neighbors could tap anything, as long as a handshake was cleared, and unrelated to your own tapping.

Nope. FP was just in addition to normal tapping. The building had to be ready to collect so you could tap it for the money, XP, and FP.
The only thing that's normally true of is graffiti (which the town owner had to clean before the building can be sprayed again)
I would be totally okay with every single building being taggable, but there are those who would hate it, and I don't think it's likely to happen. Events that have this sorry of mechanic are always great, but I don't know how they would do it year-round.

annettemarc

neuroheart wrote:

Jblue8298 wrote:

When they first introduced friend points, I believe it was the same - i.e. neighbors could tap anything, as long as a handshake was cleared, and unrelated to your own tapping.

Nope. FP was just in addition to normal tapping. The building had to be ready to collect so you could tap it for the money, XP, and FP.
The only thing that's normally true of is graffiti (which the town owner had to clean before the building can be sprayed again)
I would be totally okay with every single building being taggable, but there are those who would hate it, and I don't think it's likely to happen. Events that have this sorry of mechanic are always great, but I don't know how they would do it year-round.

I DID like the way it was when I first started back in October, 2013. I'm a bit foggy on details, but from what I recall, neighbors could tap on anything that had regenerated, whether the handshake had been cleared or not. So if I had a brown house and Neighbor A tapped it, then Neighbor B could come in anytime after 10 :minutes and see it available to tap, then Neighbor C after another 10 minutes, etc. whether or not I had visited my town or not to clear it anytime in between visits.

It wasn't perfect, but it was a lot better than having neighbors come along and find nothing available just because I live in Europe (I wish.) and had gone to bed hours before.

nicolknappen

honestly, I only figured this out a few days ago, that I didn't have to leave my buildings untapped. DOH!

Yes, I do like it. I have so many buildings and characters and items that generate $$ I can hardly see anything if I leave them untapped….

yukongirl123

I don't even tap my buildings anymore, just leave them for others to tap when they visit....already have more than enough in game cash. I do enjoy visiting other towns though....

Sakaane

The only reason I tap anything anymore is for the XP so I can eventually get free donuts. The cash I could care less about.

4junk3000

yukongirl123 wrote:

I don't even tap my buildings anymore, just leave them for others to tap when they visit....already have more than enough in game cash. I do enjoy visiting other towns though....

This makes no sense.

For THIS EVENT, tapping your own buildings to collect rent has no relation to what neighbors can "spy on". You are not only sacrificing cash...but xp for donuts!

The relationship between neighbor taps and our clearing them has changed for most major events. This setup is most favorable to me though. I like being able to collect the maximum amount of rent every time i enter my town without affecting the benefit to my neighbors who visited.