Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35315474-20180427060208/@comment-35315474-20180427160002

Chrisiow wrote: How do you identify game generated friends? I consider there to be three basic ways in which someone will appear in my WR.

(1) I met them on the board and we have communicated that we want to be friends. Obviously, that is the best way.

(2) Someone has seen my code here on the board and has sent me a friend invitation, but did not tell me. I've made some excellent friends this way. I can usually spot them by their names having some of the "coded messages" we tend to use (such as NameTYSM, NameLocksPls).

(3) Someone in the game has used the "find more friends" option in the game. A clue to spotting these people are their level is often very close to yours (I was level 78 at the time when I got friend invitations from level 77 and 79 players).

Like Lola, I have made some wonderful friends using the "find more friends" option in the game before I knew about this board. However, the number of satisfying friends vs freeloaders/zombies was very poor. For every friend that I ended up liking, I ended up with around 10-15 others who didn't really work out.

I enjoy not only playing the game, but being sociable in the game (visiting and gifting). I am still weeding out players who are either completely inactive (don't change their WL, never visit, never gift, and don't even return TY gifts – I have no idea why they aren't Zzzzz). And then there are those who are sociable, but send back thread or tar (some also send CIs on my WL so I believe they just don't know they can send better freebies).

Basically, I think you can just go but your gut instincts. If you just posted your code on here and someone level 200+ with "NameGBells" or similar, then it's a pretty safe bet they're from here. If you suddenly get 2 people in your WR who are close to your level, then they're most likely not from here.