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Why do you suppose a neighbor would do this?

My guesses:

1 - They are far ahead enough in the game to not care about tapping their atom signs
2 - They have a misconception that leaving the signs untapped is actually beneficial for neighbours (it's not)
3 - They like to see their town in 'full motion' with all the buildings being animated

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  • Chivalrous42
    417 posts Member
    edited February 2015
    Yeah, I just dumped a level 49 "friend" who had a massive town and is super-active with collecting rods and pies, but NEVER cleaned his town out. I went at least a week straight with nothing to tap on. And the strange thing is he originally posted on one of those "Please friend me" threads. Why, I have no idea.

    Luckily, there's no shortage of people on those threads, so he was replaced almost instantly. :)
  • annettemarc
    7747 posts Member
    edited February 2015
    Or you're on incompatible schedules. Or he has 100 friends and maybe 80 buildings, and you are coming along half hour before his next scheduled visit/cleanup, which he tries to do every 4-to-6 hours. Or his 100 friends are all uberactive. Or he is in a timezone, like, Australia.

    Or something like my experience when I do rounds where if I wait until 8 PM here in California, my many many European neighbors (where it is at that time 4 AM) have the bad habit of being asleep, and have many neighbors from across the united states who have tapped all the European's buildings before I got there. Or you're coming along in the middle of TSTO "rush hour" (Eastern US 5PM is one I find challenging. They must be on the road home and haven't cleaned up after being visited by European neighbors who visit just before their own bedtime.)

    There are loads of reasons. All valid, and mostly unavoidable.

    In general, we know nothing about our neighbors from the add-me thread, except that they, too, are getting 100 neighbors, and play "multiple times per day" but their day might be on a schedule incompatible with ours.

    I wouldnt be surprised to find that neighbor is thinking to himself that you're a lousy neighbor because you never visit. ;)

    There is nothing unkind about dropping them. You aren't able to be of any help to each other.


    USA/UK Race To Throw Country Into Utter Chaos = TOO CLOSE TO CALL
  • MamaLuck
    125 posts Member
    edited February 2015
    Thank you for the replies. It's frustrating to me to go to those towns, knowing these neighbors are playing actively but not clearing the atoms, which in turn makes me (and their other neighbors) waste time coming to them AND not get ahead with our quests by collecting the pies. I was hoping there was possibly a reasonable explanation for it that I was overlooking. Sighhhhhhhhh. :?
  • MamaLuck
    125 posts Member
    edited February 2015
    All valid points, and I did think of many of those (time zones, friends vs. number of buildings, etc) but I do visit these players a LOT. Sometimes at weird hours. And there is never a building free to tap.

    I don't think I'll drop any of these neighbors. I can still tap their criminals. And some of them I've had as neighbors for a very long time. I don't think they're intentionally being bad neighbors. It is just curious to me how no matter what time of day or night I stop by, they never have one building free to tap.
  • Chivalrous42
    417 posts Member
    edited February 2015
    Or you're on incompatible schedules. Or he has 100 friends and maybe 80 buildings, and you are coming along half hour before his next scheduled visit/cleanup, which he tries to do every 4-to-6 hours. Or his 100 friends are all uberactive.

    I definitely have a a few people who are in this category. Including some who are new(ish) like me, but unlike me don't have house farms, and thus just too few items in general. I tend to let those slide a bit more. But the dude I mentioned above I would try to visit at least 5 times a day, and he never visited me either. I agree that sometimes it is just best to unfriend, even if it's just opposite schedules. If you're not helping each other, it doesn't really matter why.

    What I don't get is why so many people have attitude about house farms. When I'm trying to blast through 100 friends, the last thing I want is to have to keep searching for stuff to click on – and then find nothing. House farms make it easy, and are a virtual guarantee of clickable items.
  • delegg629524
    337 posts
    edited February 2015
    The ones I have seen like this did not complete issue 1. They may have given up. However, I also have neighbors who are at a lower level and do not have enough buildings to go around for everyone. So I do keep that into consideration.
  • theslayer369
    2002 posts Member
    edited February 2015
    The ones I have seen like this did not complete issue 1. They may have given up. However, I also have neighbors who are at a lower level and do not have enough buildings to go around for everyone. So I do keep that into consideration.

    Yes, it's only fair if neighbours are at low levels to take that into consideration. I don't mind revisiting them to get my 3 taps and in this event the extra taps for criminals.
  • frogger53
    686 posts Member
    edited February 2015
    Just give them a reasonable amount of time...depending on what you deem as reasonable......and then replace them if nothng changes. There are plenty of players out there waiting to be neighboreenos!
  • GeminiTina
    330 posts Member
    edited February 2015
    I have stranger yet...a friend with zero rods and zero pies, but is clearing their town.
  • roshigoth1
    1601 posts Member
    edited February 2015
    It boggles the mind. I've had more neighbors go inactive during this event than in the 2 months preceding it. I'm getting close to clearing out my neighbor waiting list.

    Despite having a few issues I'm not too keen on, I do think this is the best event since Stonecutters. I can't figure out why people are quitting now.
  • cdepast
    2462 posts Member
    edited February 2015
    I have a neighbor that used to be active on the forum and is super premium - meaning the buy and rush everything. Yet their town is barely designed and there is never anything to tap. its odd - but to each their own
  • efin98
    5856 posts Member
    edited February 2015
    cdepast wrote:
    I have a neighbor that used to be active on the forum and is super premium - meaning the buy and rush everything. Yet their town is barely designed and there is never anything to tap. its odd - but to each their own

    Does their name start with "M" and hasn't been active since Halloween? I had a neighbor like that so thinking it might be the same one....
  • SquirrelLadd
    1667 posts Member
    edited February 2015
    I have a couple of neighbours that are like this too....keeping them on for a while longer, just incade they return. They also have really nice towns with premium items...very odd.
  • MamaLuck
    125 posts Member
    edited February 2015
    I haven't gotten rid of any neighbors yet. I still visit each of them for the criminals, and also just in case they return. :)

    It is strange, though, with some neighbors (as some have mentioned above) how they have very updated, premium towns but just don't seem to care about appearance or clearing them or updating them. I have a couple of neighbors who but every premium item but then just place all the buildings into a mass jumble so you can't even see some of them. Some neighbors have like one tiny sidewalk where almost all of their poor characters (including those paid-for!) roam back and forth in an itty-bitty space and you can hardly tell them apart. I wonder if for these neighbors it's just the thrill of collecting? lol :wink:
  • Nitemare-rexx
    541 posts
    edited February 2015
    MamaLuck wrote:
    I haven't gotten rid of any neighbors yet. I still visit each of them for the criminals, and also just in case they return. :)

    It is strange, though, with some neighbors (as some have mentioned above) how they have very updated, premium towns but just don't seem to care about appearance or clearing them or updating them. I have a couple of neighbors who but every premium item but then just place all the buildings into a mass jumble so you can't even see some of them. Some neighbors have like one tiny sidewalk where almost all of their poor characters (including those paid-for!) roam back and forth in an itty-bitty space and you can hardly tell them apart. I wonder if for these neighbors it's just the thrill of collecting? lol :wink:
    or they dont GAF becuase they used the "other untold unallowed means" *caugh* *gag* whats the other word related to those 2? :wink:
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