Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33688810-20171122220138/@comment-4974000-20171129005833

Agreed.

I do have lower-level people on my list who popped up spontaneously (presumably I was an in-game suggestion - I don't put my code up) and have never gifted. I don't begrudge those at all. They were probably prompted to add some friends but don't really know how to use the feature. I give to them and visit now and then anyway. Worst case scenario, I just get thank you gifts, but even those build my coins and passes and fixers and flowers and things, which is a net good (although string can take a break any time now, LOL). Now and then, people learn about gifting from receiving them and start to give in turn.

I also think some newer players don't understand there is a difference between the quality (or perhaps I should say scarcity) of the free gifts versus the thank you gifts. If I get 100 thank you gifts, maybe 10 will be coins and energy, 10 will be access passes, and 20-30 will be rarer/higher-level fixers, but 50-60 will be string and tar and fluff and are essentially throwaways. Thank you gifts, in large quantities, do assist game play, but nowhere near as much as deliberately sent freebies. I don't think people realise that about the game feature until they start gifting seriously themselves.

But the higher level ones, the ones with a reputation rank that indicates they have used the friends feature actively, and especially the ones who advertised their codes in the first place...they all should know better IMO. Like you, I have a few high-level people who do nothing, not even free gifts, although they are still active in the game and accept-and-thank. And yes, wish lists full of CIs, too. I keep them around to boost my thank you gifts and because visiting them still helps my reputation level, but I know who they are, and they are the ones I let go of if I need to make room on my list. (I personally try to limit my list to the number of people I can gift/visit per day, so I don't have to keep track of who did or didn't get one). And while they still get my send-to-all freebies, I don't give them CIs or pay any special attention to their desired freebies.