Board Thread:Friend Code Exchange/@comment-44614892-20191207174154/@comment-32823535-20191208213607

Actually, you don't start getting the ruby and paws for going up a reputation level until you max out on how many friends you can gift (max is 100), how many locations you can charge on your friend's map (max is 10) and how many rewards you can receive per visit (max is 50 per day). In other words, when you first start visiting, and your reputation level is very low (don't remember if it starts at 1), you can only send gifts to 50 (I think)friends and charge 5 (?) locations per day for your friends. (I am at rep level 15 on a "baby" game, and can send only 64 gifts per day and only charge 7 locations.) The wiki page on visiting friends is incomplete, I don't know if anyone has made a chart of the figures. I know the max is reached long before level 60, maybe someone else will be able to give more details.

Charging trophies is actually quite helpful EXCEPT you can only collect on the trophies twice a day, so if more than 2 of your friends charge your trophies, those charges are wasted, as you cannot collect on all the charges, and the charges expire after 48 hours. That is why it is better to charge a friend's locations.