Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-40112086-20191115011801/@comment-40112086-20191115142616

Hi Krisma. I am not the best one to answer about thanking etiquette. I came to the friend thing late and have learned much here in the past few months. Several of the players here are very personal in their gifting and thanking. I'm trying to learn that.

In the gift window, there is a search button. You can enter "ran" for random in the search and that will find only the random "thank you" gifts that you get in return from the gifts you send. You can hit accept all on those - or scroll thru them to see if anyone sent you a message. Some people send custom thank you messages for gifts.

Then when you open your box again, you'll have all the gifts you've received. You can change your name before you accept gifts to send a personal thank you. I just don't often do that for all the gifts. I too have such generous friends and I simply don't have the time for that.

What I DO try to do is scroll through my box looking for CIs (collection items). If I have CIs on my wish list or is friends just generously send me an entire collection so that I receive the reward for that collection when I combine it, I do like to acknowledge that with a return gift and/or personal thank you.

I'm not good at it and luckily not everyone expects it. And expect is the wrong word I think. Earlier this week, I sent some collections to people - for Flying Time or Lanterns or access passes. I don't need to see a "ThankyouAmy" message - that's not why I send them. BUT, when I see that message, I do realize that they received the collection. When you don't get that, you sort of wonder if the collection was there by the time they got to their gift box (because gifts can get pushed out when the gift box is full).

There have been threads about thanking friends. I'm not good at searching. And I will say that I just don't see getting into the habit of regularly going thru gifts one by one. I'd rather spend my friend time sending gifts and visitng.

And to your comment to friends knowning what you need - it's a bit lucky from your friends and the experience from those that have played for a longer time. I know there are certian locations that were really difficult for me to learn. The Veranda is an example, when I first got it to sleuth, I had a hard time completing and would burn through raindrops without being successful so when someone gets close to level 72, I try to send extra raindrops. Same for the Lair and Candy World.