Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30891950-20170303185912/@comment-30549602-20170304231626

to stir the possum, but I feel I must weigh in on this 5s.

Mom is my game friend and has been nothing but generous and helpful to me. She is very often the donor when I list CIs. What she says is true, she hardly ever asks for them herself, choosing (as I understand it) to SELF-FUND her needs from her other accounts. Hence her statement about gifting heavily (to herself) when she needs items.

During challenges the gifting rate from her ipad to her Kindle is increased. She gifts to herself, and by happy corollary to her friends. It does take her extra time to include her friends in the gifting and to visit them in order to gift from their wish lists. Not all players are willing to spend as much time on this.

Mom I do understand what you were saying above. When you talk about the best gifting and visiting possible in the time available, you are thinking of the outcome for your FRIENDS, and not yourself. I am sure you are not Robinson Crusoe in having more than one account. Nor of wondering about the impact of your gifting habits on your friends. Or worrying that you might miss acknowledging a friend's gift because your inbox has maxed out. Or that you caused theirs to max out.

As an aside, if a person has a number of TTing friends but is not online every day to clear the box, I'd imagine a maxed out box would be quite a likely outcome of generous gifting.

Like I said in an earlier post, we are all individuals. Mom is the type of player who strives to understand the mechanics of the game. I can relate to that, as can you 5s. We have brains that love to analyse. She is also very generous with her time, which is, after all, the REAL currency of this game, when you stop and think about it.

My memory of being a new player is fresh enough to recall that when I first found this forum and the very nice people here, I was nonetheless baffled by some of your convos, so laden were they with arcane jargon and abbreviations. It seemed to me I was playing a totally different game at times. It takes a few months to get it.

So some of the stuff newer players talk about in the forum must indeed seem a bit ho-hum or even unnecessary to those who have been there, done that and are card carrying members of the Old Guard Club.

For all of us the forum is a great place to vent, share a joke, ask dumb questions, celebrate an achievement and share war stories about the game. Or, shock horror, even express opinions. And I have news for you, this is a PUBLIC FORUM, and not the private preserve of select members of the club.

That said, if players wish to read *authoritative* information on the game, compiled and updated by experts, then they need look no further than the pages of the WIKI. I have found it to be invaluable, and I acknowledge the ongoing work of MeOhmy and former editors like Fossiliferous and others. Thank you for helping us. Might I suggest that we try to get into the habit of referring newer players there, after offering brief answers to their questions. Much better than re-inventing the wheel.

I can see this has turned into another lecture-length post. Sorry bout that, Linka. Thanks for reading. Have a nice day.