Last helpers tab

I think it is way easier to help friends by filling boat crates than it is to try and sell directly to them in the RSS. It seems like a lot of stress that some players have over checking who buys what and how many. I help strangers all the time and sometimes they do come and buy everything from me. It isn't always a nice feeling, so I do understand what people are talking about. I just choose not to worry about it. It's much more fun to try and help as many people as you can than trying to control the RSS.

I have to also say that this is the one subject on these forums that has affected my gameplay the most in a negative way. I generally don't buy anything from my friends because of fear of them thinking that I'm the wrong person to buy. I don't like the stress of having to think about how many items is the correct amount to buy and how often. I do sometimes buy common items like wool and bacon and such from them when I need it. Mostly I just try and find the things I need in the DD. So much easier that trying to worry about who I can and who I can't buy from.

[QUOTE=Elanor;1262779]I have to also say that this is the one subject on these forums that has affected my gameplay the most in a negative way. I generally don't buy anything from my friends because of fear of them thinking that I'm the wrong person to buy. I don't like the stress of having to think about how many items is the correct amount to buy and how often. I do sometimes buy common items like wool and bacon and such from them when I need it. Mostly I just try and find the things I need in the DD. So much easier that trying to worry about who I can and who I can't buy from.[



I used to be more concerned about this, but now I buy whatever I want from DD ads, and from neighbors a thing or two. If that is an issue, then I accept I may be un friended. That is ok. It is more important to me to be in a community where playing styles are compatible than to try to salvage an incompatible situation by compromising my enjoyment of the game.

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Originally Posted by powdermonkey

I really love the "last helpers" tab. While I realize that some people who play the I-don't-know-what-to-call-it-small-circle-of-friends type game that the original poster (Flijo) prefers


it is not that I have a 'small circle of friends' that I like to play with, yes there are some special people amongst my f&n but I play the game much as you do, I enjoying helping others,especially lower level players, and donate what I want to who I want, but that choice is mine. My point about the last helper button was that after helping someone they can "visit" your RSS without invitation and empty it. Have you any idea how long it takes to fill over 100 crates? It is a lot longer than it takes the greedy player (who must have lots of money to be able to afford so much stuff) to empty it. My suggestion was to have less tabs in last helpers so that when you do pick up someone you would rather not have as a visitor, it doesn't take forever to get rid of them,

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I wish there were more tabs in last helpers, I like it and I use it often. Some of the players that I really like disappear way to soon. I already follow as many as the game allows(wish there were more tabs for that), I don't want to delete them and add in ones in my last helper tab. So getting rid of some of these tabs would make you happy, but others like myself unhappy.

Helpers tab should be just like the followers tab, you should be able to delete a helper if they become a problem. I've had to do it once in my follower tab with an annoying follower. That would satisfy you and anyone else with someone stalking them, while not harming the existing way for many other players who have no issues with it. Just saying there are ways that SC can fix the problems ones are having without harming the good points of things that other players like.

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Originally Posted by willow

I used to be more concerned about this, but now I buy whatever I want from DD ads, and from neighbors a thing or two. If that is an issue, then I accept I may be un friended. That is ok. It is more important to me to be in a community where playing styles are compatible than to try to salvage an incompatible situation by compromising my enjoyment of the game.

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I think this is a great point. Maybe It would be better to just buy anything I need and not worry about it at all. They do have the option of unfriending me if they don't like it like you said. There is also the possibility, you know, that my friends are upset that I DON'T buy from them. Very difficult to try and play so that everybody is happy. lol.

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Originally Posted by Flijo

I wish there were more tabs in last helpers, I like it and I use it often. Some of the players that I really like disappear way to soon. I already follow as many as the game allows(which there were more tabs for that), I don't want to delete them and add in ones in my last helper tab. So getting rid of some of these tabs would make you happy, but others like myself unhappy.

Helpers tab should be just like the followers tab, you should be able to delete a helper if they become a problem. I've had to do it once in my follower tab with an annoying follower. That would satisfy you and anyone else with someone stalking them, while not harming the existing way for many other players who have no issues with it. Just saying there are ways that SC can fix the problems ones are having without harming other the good points of things that other players like.

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The last helpers tab is comprised of people who have helped me. I can go via that link to their farms, but am not aware that they can come to mine that way. Right? Maybe I am missing something. I do not see the names of farms I have helped, except on the thank you notes. I haven't tried to follow the note to a farm; does that work? If it does not, then I see no way to visit a non-friend farm that I have helped and if I understand this thread, that is where many say the problem is. Before we could hope to delete someone from the group of people we have helped, we would need access.

I wonder if that in itself would help. Right now the access is not reciprocal. Maybe if it was there would be fewer problems.

If the problem is with people who have helped us, then it would seem to work to be able to delete them if a problem arises.

I agree with you about the value of last helper list, I use it daily to help those who have helped me. I don't know that I would want farms on it longer, but if we had more watched slots, I would like to add farms from that list sometimes.

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Why this discussion has been reduced to the usual one of about who buys how much from your RSS amazes me...

It is about a tab that has a negative aspect as well as its obvious positive benefits.

You can delete "unwanted" friends.

You can delete "unwanted" followers.

You CANNOT delete "unwanted" Last Helper's.

My issue is about being STALKED pure and simple.

It is about having a squatter take over your farm and thus your game.

Nothing about "the way I play my game" can change this situation.

It is done and cannot be undone until they want it over.

It is now a game within a game...who can stick it out the longest.

Enjoy it?

No.

Why has it happened? I "helped" someone.

(my final word)

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Originally Posted by TheDonsta

???

Why this discussion has been reduced to the usual one of about who buys how much from your RSS amazes me...

It is about a tab that has a negative aspect as well as its obvious positive benefits.

You can delete "unwanted" friends.

You can delete "unwanted" followers.

You CANNOT delete "unwanted" Last Helper's.

My issue is about being STALKED pure and simple.

It is about having a squatter take over your farm and thus your game.

Nothing about "the way I play my game" can change this situation.

It is done and cannot be undone until they want it over.

It is now a game within a game...who can stick it out the longest.

Enjoy it?

No.

Why has it happened? I "helped" someone.

(my final word)

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Donna send your stalker my way. I feel the need to wheat!

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Originally Posted by Elanor

Very difficult to try and play so that everybody is happy. lol.

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That's not difficult -- IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.

Who knows what is happening in the life/head of the player on the other end of the transaction? We are PLAYERS not MIND-READERS.

None of us can really know how our purchases affect others -- whether they make then happy, or angry, or thankful, or grateful -- UNLESS WE ARE TOLD.

I am always grateful for any purchase because, like I said earlier, if it is in my shop I want/need it G-O-N-E. I am ESPECIALLY grateful for ANY player who buys all those eggs I sell at 100 coins because my chickens are such great laying hens.

My advice: Just play YOUR game the way it makes YOU happy, and let others be responsible for their own happiness.

If you get unfriended, that could be because of a glitch, because someone wants to downsize their friends list, because someone is leaving the game, because someone's child or grandchild deleted game center, because because because. It could be a million things OTHER THAN you bought too much at once.

Speaking for myself, I don't take unfriendings personally, because I can't know why it happens.

I hope folks will not spend time worrying about what they can never know, and just enjoy what they DO know -- how much fun it is to play this cute farming game. :)

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Originally Posted by TheDonsta

???

Why this discussion has been reduced to the usual one of about who buys how much from your RSS amazes me...

It is about a tab that has a negative aspect as well as its obvious positive benefits.

You can delete "unwanted" friends.

You can delete "unwanted" followers.

You CANNOT delete "unwanted" Last Helper's.

My issue is about being STALKED pure and simple.

It is about having a squatter take over your farm and thus your game.

Nothing about "the way I play my game" can change this situation.

It is done and cannot be undone until they want it over.

It is now a game within a game...who can stick it out the longest.

Enjoy it?

No.

Why has it happened? I "helped" someone.

(my final word)

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the negative aspect of having someone take over your farm is that, in the extreme case, they buy everything you put in the RSS as soon as you post it. It happened to me for a week; I understand how it can affect a players experience with the game. It is related to how much is purchased, though not the same issue.

I think it is influenced by attitudes about the RSS, too. If you sell mostly common items at or near top price, purchase configuration (who and how often) probably won't matter too much. If you produce and search for premium items to post in your store, or sell at a substantial discount, both of which are less easily sustainable, it might matter more. If you are selling solely as commerce, it won't matter who buys. If you are selling to help others associated through the game to your farm, it might matter more. I don't know, but suspect not many people who have had their farm influenced by the kind of event you are talking about would embrace the experience regardless of their sales philosophy.

as I understand it, the issue is more with farms that have been helped, not farms that helped you. The last helpers list is farms that helped you. I feel kindly inclined towards those players since at the inception of our association they did something for me. I want to return the favor.

i am just wondering how many of us who have had an issue, had it via the last helpers list versus the unknown pool of people we last helped. Adjusting the last helpers list will not fix this if it is the people we have helped.

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