Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35264970-20180416135346/@comment-35315474-20180416184422

Orithain wrote: Agreed. Someone on another thread - I think it might have been Lola - mentioned keeping a spreadsheet of gifts to track it better and get rid of zombies. I think I may have to start doing that too so I can purge and then add some better friends. In case that sounded greedy, I do gift a lot too and TT most days now so I can send out batches of access passes and high level fixers. I've mentioned keeping a spreadsheet in a few messages recently, but it wasn't my idea. I read the idea on here when I first discovered this board (I wish I now could remember who suggested it, but it could have been Lola since she offers so many wonderful suggestions). Whomever first suggested it, I strongly recommend it for players who need to clean out their friends list.

I started out trying to find friends by adding people from the game's random invite option. I didn't know what to look for so I accepted everyone. Now I'm flooded with a mix of players, some really nice and some who just take and never reciprocate.

It took me some time to create the spreadsheet, but I am soooo happy I have it now. Just today, I was close to gifting CI's to a few players, only to check my spreadsheet to find they have not reciprocated in any way whatsoever. They're now marked for the Byebye club (only waiting for the upgrade issues to clear to be sure).

But even better, the spreadsheet has highlighted some of my more friendly players. I have one friend at level 59 that I love. We keep sharing things from each other's WLs every day. Players like that is who I want to send my extra CI's to.

It takes a lot of extra time to create and then maintain a spreadsheet, especially if you have a lot of friends, but I think it's more than worth it. Once I cull out my friend list, I think the time factor will drop significantly because then I'll only need to track to anyone new I've added.

And I don't think it's greedy. I think it's just looking for friends who enjoy the act of sharing as much as we do. If a friend is willing to share with us, then it's likely they will also share with others. So our extras can get spread around to those who need them. For some of us (and it seems many of us on this board), a large part of the fun in the game is sharing with others.