Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32898819-20171002164312/@comment-2601:601:100:DA60:5455:BE9C:341B:14BE-20171012054413

Howdy y'all, As long as you understand the costs vs. benefits of having a long friends list, you can't be frustrated or disappointed. Having many friends means lots of "hiring" capability, and gifts flying back and forth, but also a lot of work to "visit" 100 of them daily. Multiplied by the 10 "helps" on each of their maps yields a whopping 1,000 finger clicks or stylus taps each day. Searching through the "Friend's Wishes" list for one friend out of the 250 maximum allowed friends, by name, to give a specific gift can take quite a while, sometimes exhaustingly. But the effort pays off in experience (blue stars), coins, and reputation points (blue birds). That's where careful planning can be important, as it makes no sense to level up at a time when you aleady have a full "bank" of energy. Better is to use all your energy immediately before reaching the next level, thus maximizing the benefit of recharging your full energy bank (plus 5 more additionally) for reaching a new, higher level. The higher your level is - all the more this principle applies.

BTW, I no longer accept new friends whose reputation score is less than 1/2 their Level number, because I think they just don't understand the game well enough to be helpful, at least not yet, and don't yet appreciate the necessity, time, or work involved in tracking gift-giving (in both directions) on a detailed spreadsheet.

Lastly, "friends" who only ask for dragonflies, cotton balls and/or fangs don't get much help, as those items are much too expensive to "craft" or purchase, and I NEVER ask for these fixers myself, precisely for the same reason. Good luck, I say, to them, but please don't expect others (like me) to accommodate such gauche, bourgeois requests. It seems rather greedy; don't you agree?

Seek On, Find Everything

- Ravensloft