Thread:Sophie Grammy5D/@comment-30549602-20161213062552/@comment-29808589-20161214222028

Minki,

I was exactly like you about 6 months ago. I don't keep a long list of friends, usually about 40-50 on my higher level game (Sophie, 120), and 30-40 on my lower level game (Grammy, 64). I try to accept new players, to help them out, but like to limit my friends list (FL) to the amount of gifts I can give each day. My Sophie game is on an iPad, like a lot of folks.

I do keep a list (Excel spreadsheet, since that is easy for me) that has the names, levels, talents for each friend, and squares to note down their activities each day. One page lasts for about a week or so. I note who visits me, who gives me freebie gifts (tickets and fixers, etc), who gives me CIs. I also note who gets CIs from me for each day, so I can try to spread them around a little more evenly. I try to gift and visit each friend every day, so I couldn't manage a much longer list.

For managing friends:  I keep my very oldest friends and my Wiki friends as "Special" friends. To do that, you go into your friends list and click the little star within a circle at the top right corner of their avatar, when they are clicked, the little star changes from grey to red and gold. To delete a friend, you go to the same window, and click on the red X at the very top right. A window will come up asking 'are you sure', or something similar, and you say yes. Then they are off your list.

A couple of tips that took me a long time to figure out:

1)  When you accept a new friend, they will be at the very end of your FL until you visit or gift them, after that, they will be arranged according to their game level.

2) your special friends are always at the very beginning of your FL, arranged in descending order.  So your highest level special friend will come first, and so on.  After your special friends, your regular friends are also arranged in descending order.

3) Within the game, if someone doesn't play for (we think) about 2 weeks, then they get sent to the very bottom of your FL.  My husband calls this the leper colony.  So if you look at your list, and all the sudden you see people with higher levels placed to the right of, say, a level 12 player, then you know that they are considered 'inactive' by Mytona.  For me, if they don't move back into the playing list after a couple of weeks, I usually delete them.

Also, my 2 cents for what its worth:

If I see that friends take my gifts, continuously ask for rare CIs, and/or never give me any gifts, even the free ones, even once in a while, then I usually delete them. I like helping new players, becasue I got so much help from others when I was starting out. But 5Sides is right, TTing is hard work, so I want to give to players who appreciate.

Last thing, sorry I can't remember your level! And I'm writing from my Grammy game (iMac desktop, where I don't think we are friends yet). The game is set up so that it is easier for new players, but gets progressively harder to play (and earn CIs) as you level up. I noticed the change at about level 40 or so. That is why I have a second game, to help myself out. Many of the wiki players have a second game (sorry if you already know all this). One game to keep secure and a lower level game to TT with, since there is some risk to TTing. When I TT, I can give multiple gifts to my friends each day.

Hope this long wordy message helps even a little!

Debbie

AKA Sophie, Grammy and Alicia