Board Thread:Eureka Moments/@comment-35508590-20180719210821

First of all, that was not my idea, I was just a volunteer. In order to get clear results, I installed a second game on another device, both use Android, the second game was the receiver with only one possible donor and friend - me.

More detailed and perhaps rather confusing details can be found in my posts, which I have attached to the overview and for completeness on my wall.

Next point and at the same time an important insight anticipates, perhaps to understand the following immediately. There are only two relevant distinctions in all received gifts:

1. Unseen and seen gifts (which lead me to the 2. point) 2. TYs or ALL others

The findings:

If you have not looked into your gift box (GB) in the meantime (for example, wake up with a full GB)

No matter what gifts your GB is filled with, newer gifts crowd out the oldest. So can TYs also replace your previous gifts, even received CIs, because previous TYs in your GB are not replaced by new gifts, unless they are at the beginning of your GB.

So there is no priority ranking of gifts, new gifts do not override the existing TYs first.

When you open your GB, all the presents appear in unsorted order, but there are timestamps, tested them with numbered or unique gifts that have been replaced by new ones. Otherwise it is not possible to determine the actual order.

So you probably did not get all gifts as your oldest ones were pushed away.

And so it is impossible to tell if all of my sent gifts have arrived or a friend has not sent you any presents for some time.

Even if you have few gifts in your GB, it may be that as an active TTer or as someone with many TT friends or both together, you will receive so many gifts in no time at all that your latest gifts will be lost.

If you have seen in between in your GB

If you really do not have time to manage your GB (probably because you are distracted by whatever) just take a quick look into your GB and only your previous TYs will be replaced with new gifts, not needing to filter out and accept the Randoms. This creates some space for new gifts, but please note that new TYs are synonymous with all other new gifts.

(And accepted gifts, without sending a random TY. These TYs disappear from the receiver's GB and never reach the sender.)

Only a few possible conclusions:

Have fun! It's just a game where we love to give each other.

And yet ... I'd like to have all of my gifts arrived and I do not want my presents to be replaced in a full GB of newer gifts (I appreciate TY's, but in that case I wish a prioritization) that applies for my GB but also for the GBs of my friends.

So, with mixed feelings, I see my full GB - nice, lots of TYs, so a lot has arrived with my friends, but who knows what I did not get and maybe it's the same with them? At this point I am sorry for my friends, who have taken the time and effort to please me and I do not even notice.

So maybe I try to send in the following order - first the TYs, then the freebies, then CIs.

Maybe I will send less or no TYs.

Maybe I should also consider the number of my friends, their activity and needs. Yes, sure I should.

Maybe I should send fewer freebies?

Oh, I know, these are not the most enjoyable results, but that's the way it is. Ideas, feedback and tips are welcome!

At last. I'm not a scientist, just a simple accountant and not the language guru. I do not want to be unkind, but please understand if I can not answer all the questions. I'll like to try, but I've only been in the game since a few month and there are still many things to learn, but I'm convinced that the more experienced players here are happy to help out. 😉 