Where is neighbor etiquette, mabey I got wrong neighbors?

Raritan127 · December 8, 2014 12:08PM

I'll admit I tend to forget I have neighbours and just click everything in my town that pops up while I'm playing my own town, but I also wasn't aware some people have a preference of what they want to select in my town. I never really read up on what items cause what effect.
That being said, I think if you're not allowed to play your own town the way you want to it kind of kills the game for you. It's why I was in the fence about adding any neighbours to begin with.

annettemarc · December 8, 2014 12:34PM

For this Christmas event, once you reach the stage where you have the Fed button, drop 3 Feds into every town. If you get a message that the town is heaving with Feds, try to find any building to tap.

I know that doesn't answer your main question, but it will be a month before you need to figure out the strategy -- and the overwhelming number of players just want you to tap anything at all. If someone doesn't want you to do that, they can (and should) drop and replace you. Both of you should be having fun. Not stressing. Its a game. Play happy.

Fettster777 · December 8, 2014 12:36PM

I don't even pay attention to neighbors except during events or for FP.

bren1960 · December 8, 2014 12:36PM

I've been playing since day one. I really don't care what people tap. Nor do I care what I tap. If someone wants to delete me...don't care. It's easy enough to get new friends.

furrykiltman · December 8, 2014 12:38PM

It's always good to vent, you don't need stress to age ya & shorten your life.

I didn't know for a couple of months that stuff needed to be left for neighbors to tap till I caught it in a thread. So I added to my SF more than my 1 brown house, as well as not tapping the shorter timed buildings to insure that something was tapable. I have 100 neighbors. I'm not picking on what neighbors tap, and find that they are tapping what they like. However I am not squeezing my SF, so already have 5 of my 17 brown houses in storage to have room for stuff since Halloween.

As far as having nothing to tap in neighbors' SF, not sure I have an answer for that. I think it means lack of play on the players' part. For me most have 5 days or more. Though there have been some that have been only 3 days with nothing in SF or KL, which confuses me for the variation for nothing to tap. Since I'm a daily player, I give neighbors a week (unless they PM me that they are going on vacation or something) before I replace them. While I have all the friendship prizes, I still do my best to vist my neighbors daily to give them their FP towards their prizes. It has been discussed that the 24hrs needs to drop down. Someone suggested that it be 20hrs, this allows a litte flexibility. I have missed a couple of days because of it.

danco214 · December 8, 2014 12:39PM

I don't have a preference what people click when they visit my town, and also I will click the first 3 buildings I see when visiting others. with 100 neighbors, it would take way too long to search out specific buildings in each town to click on. Things have changed over time, and some of the posts you read that contradict others may have been older too when things worked differently. And putting a handshake on buildings in a house farm will not affect harvest times, they will still be able to keep their harvest cycle the same even if some buildings have handshakes and others don't.

But right now, I just leave 3 feds in neighbors towns when visiting. Its the best benefit for both myself and my neighbor, as well as being quick and easy. This is also why most likely one of your neighbors removed all their buildings, to try and make people drop feds. I'm not saying I agree with removing all buildings for this purpose, especially since not everyone has gotten far enough in the quest line to drop feds yet.

Raritan127 · December 8, 2014 12:41PM

I agree with you, You should be able to run/play your Springfield as you wish. I do! I'm just saying, (depends on how far along in the game you are?) If you have a fair amount of structures, what's wrong with always leaving six of so that are left when you clear the town? Visitors speed up your build times for structures they select, So you get the $ and XP faster for the ones they select, and you both get the FP. If there are no open choices, they most likely won't come back that day. It should be a win win situation .

GamerGD3 · December 8, 2014 12:48PM

To be honest, I tap 3 buildings I find and move on. I really dislike when there's next to nothing to tap on, but when I have spend numerous minutes scrolling through a town to find the one and only Kwik-E-Mart, Brown House and Simpsons House it is incredibly painful. I feel those neighbors aren't being fair and leaving anything to tap on. I've had a policy I only tap on the handshakes in my own town and my neighbors reflect that, the buildings closest to the landing point fill up fast and work their way out. Seems many neighbors go to Squidport when in my town during this event, where if they went right there's dozens of things to select there.

This Fed button seems to take forever to get. I rushed the initial building and a quest or 2, but I still haven't gotten it yet. Homer is beyond packed with quests (typical) and not really getting any progress. He had a 24 hour at the cave that took a while to get to, he's been needed in the daily quests, then he gets short 2 hour and 4 hour quests for the prizes I've won, just non-stop quests for him. I keep getting loaded with Feds, but don't even have any to return.

aidx1054 · December 8, 2014 12:59PM

I have never really cared what I tap when visiting neighbours unless its an event ( I.e. if I see an event currency earning item I will tap it so they get payouts faster) I usually just tap near the landing zone and move on.

I don't mind where my neighbours tap but I do make it easy on them when they visit ( landing zone can be graffited, brown houses directly north and south of there and for now I have a small brown house farm near my workshop to speed up neighbours collecting presents)

For now my only preference for neighbours is that they drop Feds or tap Christmas buildings. Feel free to add me if you want ( I will be dropping Feds to all friends within the next two days)

ephphoneapps · December 8, 2014 1:00PM

bren1960 wrote:

I've been playing since day one. I really don't care what people tap. Nor do I care what I tap. If someone wants to delete me...don't care. It's easy enough to get new friends.

Exactly this.

annettemarc · December 8, 2014 1:02PM

Raritan127 wrote:

I agree with you, You should be able to run/play your Springfield as you wish. I do! I'm just saying, (depends on how far along in the game you are?) If you have a fair amount of structures, what's wrong with always leaving six of so that are left when you clear the town? Visitors speed up your build times for structures they select, So you get the $ and XP faster for the ones they select, and you both get the FP. If there are no open choices, they most likely won't come back that day. It should be a win win situation .

Would it give you any comfort to know that my very first post to this forum was about neighbor etiquette, and specifically about what to tap in neighbors' towns. And after all this time, I still don't know. Too many varying opinions. So when I visit, I just do what I would like people to do in my town. Tap anything.

And it is certainly nice to leave things to tap unless you're desperate for every dollar.

lashinglynx · December 8, 2014 1:04PM

Raritan127 wrote:

I agree with you, You should be able to run/play your Springfield as you wish. I do! I'm just saying, (depends on how far along in the game you are?) If you have a fair amount of structures, what's wrong with always leaving six of so that are left when you clear the town? Visitors speed up your build times for structures they select, So you get the $ and XP faster for the ones they select, and you both get the FP. If there are no open choices, they most likely won't come back that day. It should be a win win situation .

I go through my friends list once a day, after that I tend to forget they're there. So when a building pops I tend to just mindlessly click on it.
But you also can't assume someone's town has nothing to click because the user is selecting them. It could be other people.
If someone has 100 friends and they all go through that persons town and the person is at work or is in a different time zone they might not be on in time to clear all the houses for you to be able to click on something.

fuffazzoni · December 8, 2014 1:08PM

I always tap the first 3 buildings I see, I don't have hours to waste for cherry picking with 100 neighbors. Also I don't care what people tap in my town, and if there's no event and I'm full of FPs I don't even care if they visit at all.

Raritan127 · December 8, 2014 1:23PM

Ok, I never thought about other people clearing the town of choices prior to my arrival.
I see the consciences is, just let the chips fall where they fall. I can live with that.
The guy clearing his town, was the last straw after visiting a bunch of towns with nothing for me to do.

In joining a new game, I didn't want to be a bad neighbor, I guess I was putting to much emphasis on what it really is.
The feds is a great option, but I am not to that point yet, and have seen 6 feds in the last 3 days.
I know, Wait they are coming.

Thanks for giving me a general consciences to put neighbor/friend segment in perspective.
Thanks!

barszap785 · December 8, 2014 1:29PM

I tend to tap on things that I don't have in my SF but wish I did. Other than that it's whatever I see first. In my SF I have a handful of buildings throughout that I leave untapped and only clear if there is a handshake on it. My neighbors can tap anything that's available (even my corn), I really don't care. I just try to always have a handful of things to tap.

As for the timers, I still don't understand how they work in conjunction with neighbor visits. Does the timer reset when a neighbor taps it? I know that if I have two identical houses that should be on the same time schedule and one of them has a handshake then they will no longer be in sync, but I have yet to figure out exactly how the timers change.

panopticnic · December 8, 2014 1:33PM

bren1960 wrote:

I've been playing since day one. I really don't care what people tap. Nor do I care what I tap. If someone wants to delete me...don't care. It's easy enough to get new friends.

this. I have a life and 100 friends. I am not going to slowly look around each town. I play often enough that my neighbours don't have issues ( i think) finding stuff to tap in my town. And if they do they are free to unfriend me, not like there is a shortage of players. However, I don't tend to loose to many neighbours so I gotta figure I am doing something right.

direwolf987 · December 8, 2014 1:35PM

I've had 90% of my neighbors for 2+ years. We have an understanding

aidx1054 · December 8, 2014 1:37PM

barszap785 wrote:

I tend to tap on things that I don't have in my SF but wish I did. Other than that it's whatever I see first. In my SF I have a handful of buildings throughout that I leave untapped and only clear if there is a handshake on it. My neighbors can tap anything that's available (even my corn), I really don't care. I just try to always have a handful of things to tap.

As for the timers, I still don't understand how they work in conjunction with neighbor visits. Does the timer reset when a neighbor taps it? I know that if I have two identical houses that should be on the same time schedule and one of them has a handshake then they will no longer be in sync, but I have yet to figure out exactly how the timers change.

My understanding of this is the timer restarts when the neighbour taps it so if I tap your 3 hour building and you tap it a half hour later you will see it payout again 2 and a half an hours after you tap it. I think.

Zozobras · December 8, 2014 1:38PM

Glad to get visits from my neighbors. They can tap wherever they wish. Add brown houses during events so there is extra tappable buildings.

When I visit I like to graffiti as those buildings don't produce revenue for my neighbors and cleaning them adds to their Righteousness points.
Otherwise any building is ok, unless the neighbor is still new, in a low level and they need cash or their farm produce is wilting.

I'm sorry but I can't go by a list of conditions of rights and wrongs for each player. If a neighbor deletes my town, so be it. This is a game after all, to have fun not for angst, enough of that in RL!

barszap785 · December 8, 2014 1:39PM

aidx1054 wrote:

barszap785 wrote:

I tend to tap on things that I don't have in my SF but wish I did. Other than that it's whatever I see first. In my SF I have a handful of buildings throughout that I leave untapped and only clear if there is a handshake on it. My neighbors can tap anything that's available (even my corn), I really don't care. I just try to always have a handful of things to tap.

As for the timers, I still don't understand how they work in conjunction with neighbor visits. Does the timer reset when a neighbor taps it? I know that if I have two identical houses that should be on the same time schedule and one of them has a handshake then they will no longer be in sync, but I have yet to figure out exactly how the timers change.

My understanding of this is the timer restarts when the neighbour taps it so if I tap your 3 hour building and you tap it a half hour later you will see it payout again 2 and a half an hours after you tap it. I think.

OK, but what if it's a 3 hour building and I come back more than 3 hours later? Do I get double payout?

direwolf987 · December 8, 2014 1:40PM

barszap785 wrote:

aidx1054 wrote:

barszap785 wrote:

I tend to tap on things that I don't have in my SF but wish I did. Other than that it's whatever I see first. In my SF I have a handful of buildings throughout that I leave untapped and only clear if there is a handshake on it. My neighbors can tap anything that's available (even my corn), I really don't care. I just try to always have a handful of things to tap.

As for the timers, I still don't understand how they work in conjunction with neighbor visits. Does the timer reset when a neighbor taps it? I know that if I have two identical houses that should be on the same time schedule and one of them has a handshake then they will no longer be in sync, but I have yet to figure out exactly how the timers change.

My understanding of this is the timer restarts when the neighbour taps it so if I tap your 3 hour building and you tap it a half hour later you will see it payout again 2 and a half an hours after you tap it. I think.

OK, but what if it's a 3 hour building and I come back more than 3 hours later? Do I get double payout?

No, it's as if they never tapped that building

Where is neighbor etiquette, mabey I got wrong neighbors?

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