Thread:5sides/@comment-30549602-20170116054518/@comment-28829111-20170116065936

I wouldn't read too much into the responses nor take any comment too personally or out of context. Everyone is just sharing their philosophy and what works best for them. I don't know how long you have played the game but the short comment is that when the Treasury Update arrived - thinking it was August? - it brought with it a LOT of anger and frustration for MANY players. Despite having a beautiful new room and some fun graphics the company chose 1) to alter the rewards for many collection sets and 2) to make "visiting" more visible/likeable by placing the CIs there and restricting the CIs from room play. It was a disaster by many players' assessments of this game. If Mytona had chosen to alert the exsiting base that changes were coming and would affect the awards players who gifted and did NOT combine their sets could have made a decision to combine the sets prior to the upgrade and enjoy the full value or move forward knowing there would be a loss but their CIs were still available to gift. By putting lots of CIs coming out of the Visit Maps (before this there were some but the emphasis was helping a friend via charge and NOT to focus on the CIs). It takes time to Visit friends so do it for helping purposes primarily and get rewarded with reputation points, a few access keys and a few CIs. After the Treasury update CIs were flying out of others maps and TTers were able to Visit any day they wanted over and over. And this is exactly what happened. Reputation points were beginning to approach the Level for players! Many players turned their focus to Visiting - hence the greed Chase discusses. Too much focus on the getting and not enough on the giving.

Early on when I discovered friends I was guilty of deleting a few because I didn't realize who was Visiting. So if I did not see a fixer come in after many, many days of TT to help others I made the assumption the player was a second account and didn't care about my friendship or they had well over 100 friends and I was not a "preferred player" on their FL. Well, post-Treasury players Visited more and ignored gifting so I naturally deleted some not knowing this was another option and what some preferred to do. So the sensitivities around Visiting and gimme gimme gimme was a monster created by Mytona but I believe it was a mistake. Something they tried that did not have the consequences they intended. They also made many players feel "icky" toward them because of the feelings of mistrust. It's no secret Linka and I among others were very upset with the Treasuy Update. We are beyond it (I think, but don't ever ask Linka if she wants a salad *wink*) and can now joke about it. But there is some lingering bad feelings about the direction the game took. I could be wrong but it seems like they are trying to slowly move it back to where it was. One of my very first discoveries with gifting was that if I gifted "my preciousssss" it was okay. The game would eventually gift it back to me or a friend would step up. Many new players know nothing about the rewarding message and game experience SN originally fostered. So, Visiting and focus on it could bring up bad memories LOL.

Now to put it in perspective...if one judged on this alone I would have no friends. I get most of my CIs on my old version game which has zero ability to Visit anymore. But I gift from it and I transfer tons of stuff over weekly to make sure the friends on my list are successful and less frustrated. If they have a few extra eyeglasses, lanterns or flying time to play with once in awhile without dropping rubies it helps make the game more enjoyable. Beginners I also send energy to like other TT folk. I could choose to feed my own game only and live on the high hog. Instead I giift out 98% of the sets I win trying to rotate around as best I can. It felt good back then to gift and it still does for me. I truly do understand the disappointment of players like Nicki (BlownupDolly) that they are limited to 10. I was there once before TT and I wanted to gift more then, too. Some day when Mytona decides no TT that will be it. Will I regret that I did not hog and hoard more of my own CIs? Nope. So my biggest peeve is probably people who TT or have second, third and even fourth games and they never, or rarely, lift a finger to gift others. That is what I find greedy. But everyone has there own thoughts on all of this. Don't overthink the Visit Post and DO feel free to ask your questions.