Being a good neighboureeno

Mirality · November 13, 2014 2:02PM

Personally, I dont care what my neighbors tap. Even the graffiti taps are fine. There's not much to worry about. Just visit as often as you can. :thumbup:

efin98 · November 13, 2014 2:16PM

Some members don't like graffiti in their town so may be best to avoid tapping on Moe's Tavern/City Hall/the school/the jail unless there is nothing else to tap. Some don't like having their tiles collected or their radio station or tv station collected but this isn't as big as the graffiti issue.

Just tap away with what you want, it's your right to do it.

amcevil · November 13, 2014 2:18PM

As others have said, tap what you want. There are indeed people who don't certain things to be tapped and they'll furiously delete you when you tap the wrong thing but there's never a shortage of people looking for good neighbors in the add me thread.

annettemarc · November 13, 2014 2:36PM

Mirality wrote:

So, this is my first time playing outside of an event, since I started during ****.

Is there any particular guidance on good things to tap while visiting neighbours? Or is it just a "tap any three things at random"?

I used to think it was best to tap the graffiti icons, because that generates money and FP for your neighbour out of an otherwise decorative building. But I've heard that this negatively affects my star rating and that there are entire lists of people who don't want graffiti ever, so that put me back on the fence.

My very first post asked whether, when I tapped on a neighbor's building(dollar sign/ dollar/cash register) was I taking that money away from the person? Duh.

As for graffiti, eventually, you'll find most don't care. Just tap graffiti if that's what you see, and if it bothers someone a lot, they'll drop you. Just don't take it personally. For one thing, if they have lots of friends, they'll run out of things to tap. Odds are excellent you won't notice that you've been dropped until one day your visits seem to be shorter, and you count and think "I could've sworn I had 100 neighbors. Who left?"

ccnqsj985 · November 13, 2014 2:36PM

I say its all fair play on either end its not like they wont tapnon anything they want when on your page. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but I see a major double standard on this myself. Just an opinion. Thanks Chey

barszap785 · November 13, 2014 2:45PM

I've read that if someone graffitis your town and you don't clear it fairly fast it could lower your multiplier which is why people don't like it.

I think the more important thing to pay attention to if you want to be a good neighbor is to make sure you have a few buildings in your own town that you always leave untapped so that neighbors have something to tap when they visit you. Then only tap them when you see the hand symbol above them.

MISTER ZOMBEE · November 13, 2014 2:47PM

barszap785 wrote:

I've read that if someone graffitis your town and you don't clear it fairly fast it could lower your multiplier which is why people don't like it.

There are simple ways to fix that. Training walls. Lots of them.

izabellatrix · November 13, 2014 2:56PM

I thought cleaning up graffiti raised your Righteousness rating? Or does it lower it? It's been so long since it was even an option that I can't really remember. :P

Anyway, I don't care what people tap in my town. When I'm playing, I try to make sure the graffiti is always cleaned so people have something to tap when they visit. In friends' towns, I just tap on the three closest things. If someone deletes me, it's really easy to find new friends anyway.

CorporalSully · November 13, 2014 3:56PM

MISTER ZOMBEE wrote:

barszap785 wrote:

I've read that if someone graffitis your town and you don't clear it fairly fast it could lower your multiplier which is why people don't like it.

There are simple ways to fix that. Training walls. Lots of them.

Indeed. I have a bunch tucked away behind a house farm. They're rather inexpensive as well.

neuroheart · November 13, 2014 4:01PM

I love graffiti. I wish graffiti was the main friend action instead of only having four buildings. I have dozens of training walls, so it never causes a problem, but I also don't tend to leave it long enough to cause a problem.

Other than graffiti, though, the long-timer buildings are a nice thing to tap.

annettemarc · November 13, 2014 4:03PM

Anyone remember the good old days, when buildings auto-regenerated? A neighbor could enter my town and see a building with hovering dollar sign, tap it, and then another visitor would see the dollar sign as long asthe building timer had expired. (Eg, a brown house would be tappable so long as it had been at least five minutes after the first neighbor tapped.) The town owner didn't need to go in and clear handshakes in between every neighbor visit.

To anyone who didn't experience it, I apologize for the convoluted explanation. But those who are veterans of the game recall. Maybe. Being a good neighbor was centered on making visits and exploring other towns. Not on housekeeping duties.

bennyquixote · November 13, 2014 4:06PM

I like it when my neighbors graffiti me. That way you get FP,etc. from buildings that you usually get nothing from. I don't care about the righteousness rating. Mine goes up and down all the time and doesn't affect much.

patzmcm · November 13, 2014 4:11PM

I am happy to see neighbors in my town again - whatever they tap! I made a slight tactical error yesterday and visited inbetween the in-game update and the app-store update, so my first real visits will be tonight. (I got FPs when tapping aliens!)

I did make a lot of money (7,000,000+) during Halloween because I tapped everything all the time. Now I will leave some buildings untapped for my neighbors.

4kidsandacatdog · November 13, 2014 4:39PM

May I ask a dumb question? What do training walls do?

cornick1234 · November 13, 2014 4:46PM

4kidsandacatdog wrote:

May I ask a dumb question? What do training walls do?

In short, nothing, they just raise your righteousness rating a little bit.

neuroheart · November 13, 2014 4:46PM

4kidsandacatdog wrote:

May I ask a dumb question? What do training walls do?

They increase your righteousness level on the conform-o-meter. Cleaning graffiti and catching Sideshow Bob are the only other ways to do so, and having graffiti on your buildings for a long time will cause it to drop. (FYI, it also just drops for no apparent reason sometimes.)

mrbadxampl · November 13, 2014 5:25PM

personally, I like the graffiti. none of those buildings generate income without it, so it's nice to get something back on the cost of building them. and as others have said, your righteousness won't drop if you have a lot of training walls (and if you don't like seeing them, put 'em behind tall buildings)

maryclaire1 · November 13, 2014 6:01PM

I tap the first three things I see, and I don't like scrolling all over the place to find something to tap. In my town I usually have a bunch of brown houses in the landing zone to make it easier for neighbors to get in and out quickly.

truenykitty · November 13, 2014 6:06PM

Personally, I don't care where you tap. Just come and visit. I have hidden training walls everywhere.

annettemarc · November 13, 2014 6:30PM

patzmcm wrote:

I am happy to see neighbors in my town again - whatever they tap! I made a slight tactical error yesterday and visited inbetween the in-game update and the app-store update, so my first real visits will be tonight. (I got FPs when tapping aliens!)

I did make a lot of money (7,000,000+) during Halloween because I tapped everything all the time. Now I will leave some buildings untapped for my neighbors.

Speaking of tactical errors. First thing I did this morning was rampage through my town collecting all rents, as I've gotten into the habit of doing that over the past month. I did a final sweep of my town to be sure I hadn't missed collecting from anything, and there was a lone handshake on the Simpson house ... And I suddenly realized I'd just wiped away any chance for friends to get FP from me ...

I'm going to need to get used to leaving that floating stuff alone. Aarrgghh. Luckily, I have no use at all for ingame cash. Glad I'm not trying to play the mid-stages of this game, where building costs are high and you have 100 neighbors to accommodate by leaving rents uncollected. Egad.

patzmcm · November 13, 2014 6:44PM

annettemarc wrote:

patzmcm wrote:

I am happy to see neighbors in my town again - whatever they tap! I made a slight tactical error yesterday and visited inbetween the in-game update and the app-store update, so my first real visits will be tonight. (I got FPs when tapping aliens!)

I did make a lot of money (7,000,000+) during Halloween because I tapped everything all the time. Now I will leave some buildings untapped for my neighbors.

Speaking of tactical errors. First thing I did this morning was rampage through my town collecting all rents, as I've gotten into the habit of doing that over the past month. I did a final sweep of my town to be sure I hadn't missed collecting from anything, and there was a lone handshake on the Simpson house ... And I suddenly realized I'd just wiped away any chance for friends to get FP from me ...

I'm going to need to get used to leaving that floating stuff alone. Aarrgghh. Luckily, I have no use at all for ingame cash. Glad I'm not trying to play the mid-stages of this game, where building costs are high and you have 100 neighbors to accommodate by leaving rents uncollected. Egad.

Yup I started that this morning but caught myself. I still need cash, none of the 10,000,000 items at all.

Being a good neighboureeno

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