Board Thread:Friend Code Exchange/@comment-31438682-20170825055724/@comment-28829111-20170825214331

I think the majority of the players that come through the game this way are "mill players" - accounts that are run by a group of people working for a third party company that sells their services. Basically they drive up the number of downloads to make the game look more popular than it really is. No clue how many game accounts each mill worker operates but I bet it is a bunch. I think this is also a reason you get no activity and then all of a sudden they collect the gifts you send...because the worker logged on to that account and played a round. Sometimes they gift a free gift but often not. It's general practice in the app business and I think many of the mills are run out of India but in SNs case I think it may be elsewhere.

That said I did just get a few new players from the app and time will tell if they are good friends or robot-like. It is discouraging to send and send and get nothing back at all. I can understand for the lower levels while they are still trying to accumulate but let's face it. We all get dups at one time or another or one CI that grows more than others in a set. It's not too difficult to share one every now and again keeping in mind the gift limit of 10 per day for most players. My game now has about 50% of the players who I consider to be good/regular friends but still has mill players, or players who don't know how to reciprocate in some way. Unlike most of you, just having them Visit my map does not cut it for me when the game offers a free gift daily. Visiting *mostly* helps the Visitor via the random CIs...yes, we need the charges and they can help but I still can't understand how difficult is it to send a free access key when you do play. Thank goodness I have many helpful friends but I would love to understand the reasoning for those who don't (not counting beginners who haven't quite figured things out or children playing whose parents have told them not to interact with the online friends perhaps), I still think there are a fair number of very selfish players. Just my opinion.