How long are u giving friends to decorate before deleting them?

WaLkiNoNwAtErR · December 7, 2012 12:04PM

Depends on how is the Sprinfield. If it doesnt look nice and its all packed, right away :P

95LRF · December 7, 2012 12:05PM

Started doing it a few hours after I had decorated my houses.

H1_ROADBLOK · December 7, 2012 12:07PM

I just went through my friends list and deleted everybody that has not logged in since a week ago. Obviously they have lost interest in the game. Less then a week stayed but there were not many left standing.

dcline414 · December 7, 2012 12:12PM

Already did. Replaced those below level 24 yesterday (gave 30 hours after update released to do two 10 hour tasks). Just finished replacing (the very few) level 24 neighbors who dropped the ball and weren't decorated yet.

Time is money (or Christmas coins, as the case may be)! 8)

sonny1618 · December 7, 2012 12:16PM

At this point if you don't log in for a few days or have particularly boring Springfields, you're gone. I'm now doing it on a case by case basis as I'm up to my limit and if I want to add anyone new, someone has to go.

KrustyBrand · December 7, 2012 12:19PM

I frankly think people can afford to be a little lackadaisical about this. I guarantee that by the end of the month there will be threads in which players are grousing about their surplus coins and why won't EA consider replacing surplus coins with donuts, yada, yada, yada...

Deadshot_DCU · December 7, 2012 12:21PM

People who aren't putting any effort into it are sent packing right away. Like a previous user mentioned, "Time is money or in this case, Time is coins.

trailstrials · December 7, 2012 12:24PM

i deleted half of my friends today for not logging in or not having houses decorated. my houses are up. add me and collect coin

liberalicious · December 7, 2012 12:26PM

I'm at level 20 but didn't start looking to add friends until a couple of weeks ago. I've posted my info here asking for adds but if the person who adds me doesn't have any decorations up, I delete them. I've invested time and money to have a bunch of houses decorated and I think it's a bit rude to add someone you know you can get coins from, but who can't get coins from you.

DDock361 · December 7, 2012 12:29PM

I figure I'm giving everyone till mid day today. I got a ton of requests yesterday and it seemed like half of them didn't even have decorations up. But I want to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, if everyone was not speeding up tasks and not checking it the second tasks finished it would take what about 18 hours to get through to decorations? My wife just decorated her house this morning and she plays a bunch just doesn't buy donuts or have many friends.

RedgeDunlop · December 7, 2012 12:29PM

Completed my *purge* this morning. Now all 100 of my friends have at least 2 homes decorated, so I should be pulling in 300 coins from them daily. Woop ;-)

dcline414 · December 7, 2012 12:36PM

KrustyBrand wrote:

I frankly think people can afford to be a little lackadaisical about this. I guarantee that by the end of the month there will be threads in which players are grousing about their surplus coins and why won't EA consider replacing surplus coins with donuts, yada, yada, yada...

I'm not worried about getting enough coins... How fast neighbors decorated was just a visible way to tell who is enthusiastic about this game and who just pops in every day or two. If you aren't decorated yet then you were either (somehow) unaware of the update, not too eager to get started, or don't play the game very frequently.

There are a few neighbors that I would have kept anyway, either because I've been neighbors with them for a while, I especially like their town, or know they are active on this forum... but of course all of them were on top of getting decorations up.

LouiseBradwell · December 7, 2012 12:37PM

I'm deleting now. You can usually spot the enthusiastic players from the casual users. I have about 5/6 house types decorated and I've put 10 brown houses in the bottom left corner so my neighbours can always collect Xmas coins from me which are easy to find and harvest (these will be deleted after the update ends lol) I'm deleting as I go so will have spaces, add me if you wish.......LouiseBradwell

josh4908 · December 7, 2012 12:38PM

I would say give people until the end if today. Myself, for example, got a late start as the update came shortly after I started work that night. I then didn't have the right characters freed at the appropriate times further delaying my decoration. I started decorating today. I'd think that considering those two costly delays and the fact that I have begun decorating, the end of today is plenty of time for anyone else.

tlindfors · December 7, 2012 12:47PM

If they don't have any decorations or any characters doing Christmas tasks they are gone. I am basically going case by case like Sonny as I am also at the point where if I want to add someone else has to get the boot. I have two open spots which I hope to fill shortly, I just finished another big friend removal and seem to have a good bunch of neighbors at this point.

Lloydy68 · December 7, 2012 12:58PM

Can't believe how mercenary some people are, it's a social game for gods sake, if your all blocking people who haven't got decs yet, do you not realise they rely on higher level people so they can get their coins quicker by visiting us. Some people need to realise its a GAME..

didemlale · December 7, 2012 1:15PM

I don't think that I will delete a friend just because s/he doesn't use holiday decorations. I have a friend who never used Halloween decorations in her Springfield because she didn't like the concept. I deleted some friends who didn't log in for more than one week as I am trying keep the number of my friends limited not have connection problems again.

dcline414 · December 7, 2012 1:16PM

Lloydy68 wrote:

Can't believe how mercenary some people are, it's a social game for gods sake, if your all blocking people who haven't got decs yet, do you not realise they rely on higher level people so they can get their coins quicker by visiting us. Some people need to realise its a GAME..

"You're fired."

amaree12 · December 7, 2012 1:17PM

I'm not gonna bother cleaning out the friend's list. It would be too much work for me.

spiffshine · December 7, 2012 1:24PM

I don't really care if people have their decorations up as much as I care if they have a similar aesthetic sensibility to my own, are exceptionally creative, or an active forum user. Creativity trumps Santa coins for me.

rs876 · December 7, 2012 1:24PM

This is an interesting thread. I wish people would just stop sending me requests. I've collected enough coins to get everything I wanted from the Christmas update (stopped at Barney's) so now coins are worthless to me. I don't want a bunch of stupid funzo's walking around my town. I got the krusty doll from Halloween and that's enough useless characters for me.

How long are u giving friends to decorate before deleting them?

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