Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34478085-20180709155030

Many of the posters on these boards are pretty savvy, but maybe not everyone knows or realizes, or for the newbies out there...

Hitting "Thank" or "Accept all and thank" is not the same as gifting your friends. When you send thank-you gifts, those are usually low level items. When you send actual chosen gifts that usually benefits your friends more. There are some great threads on these forums about gifting, so I won't repeat the instructions on scrolling down, etc. here. Perhaps someone more savvy than I can paste a link.

Also, if you have a friend that Time Travels (TTs) that friend still would welcome gifts from you, especially passes such as theater tickets, raindrops, etc. Just because TTers can give a lot, doesn't mean that we get useful gifts in return when you give thank-you gifts.

Not to disparage thank-you gifts at all! Let me just give an example of what I mean. I learned how to time travel a month or so ago. I try to gift generously. When my friends send thank-you gifts back, it's usually tar, string, petals, scales, etc. -- the low-level items that I have thousands of. Friends don't get to choose which thank-you gifts you get -- they just show up in your list as "random gifts." What I need are things like raindrops (especially raindrops!) or theater tickets which never get sent as thank-you/random gifts.

So, even if you don't TT, that's okay, but please think about gifting your friends. If you don't have a lot of time, pick one gift from the "send" tab and send to everyone using the little check box.

This post isn't meant to make anyone feel guilty. I just have been wondering if some people think that, because they may get dozens of gifts from their TTing friends that the friends don't need gifts sent to them. It's something that I misunderstood myself when I started. Enjoy playing and have fun! :) 