Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28829111-20170816190743

TTers especially read this.

Twice now in the past week I have witnessed my gift window remove CIs gifted by my friend. This is new behavior.

A few days ago there were CI gifts from 3 different friends in addition to some access keys. I had not collected them but opted to play first. When I went back to collect them they were gone. It was as if CIs and fixer gifts now have an expiry for acceptance. I thought maybe it was a fluke so did not report it.

Today I took a break from work to open the game as it showed gifts were available. I clicked in the gift circle and saw one friend had sent a collection set for access keys (i could only see the first 2 of the set as the window only displays six gifts and the other 4 spots were access keys from other friends. But this particular friend sends access key sets periodically so i knew the rest of the set was there). Well...before I had a chance to start tapping on each gift the screen flickered and I had different gifts visible in the window and the tab changed to a count of 500.

As I started scrolling I saw a beginner who had not played for weeks had collected all her gifts and her TY boxes flooded my gift box. Now this is normally not a problem as in the past the Collection pieces remained but the "free" gifts like fixers and access keys might get pushed out and I'd lose them. But this time all the CIs went with them. I lost my CI gifts because I choose to help players who are beginners and who often do not play daily and collect daily.

That changes the whole game folks. Especially if one TTs. It means TTers will drop players who play infrequently, +/OR not gift multiple access keys except to select friends, +/OR stop helping the newer players with both CIs they Wl and access keys because they don't collect frequently and hurt advanced players games. I was never one to restrict my friend list to daily players only but I can see a new SN game world where if you don't collect often I delete you as a friend. That pretty much leaves only 1/3 of my friends left.

And for those of you on the receiving end... if you can't get to the game for several days and your inbox has CIs they will go POOF! 