Too many friends ruined my trading

I have over 4000 friends so when I click on the friends button the entire game freezes for a minute, then I see the friends tab pop up an it loses connection. Restoring the connection just leads to a repeat of the process. I can no longer use the bar to see friends or who needs help. I have to get to the people in my neighborhood by clicking on the house.

I can still scroll through all of my friends by going into my RSS and clicking on the top but that method is way too
slow for doing any trades Blah, no more trading for me :mad:

Feeling your pain, 27,000 followers made my tabs unstable too. SC said they are sorry but cannot help, all I can do is keep deleting one by one through freezing and crashing as I delete. At least you can delete in GC or FB, which will be more stable than shedding followers in game. I think it is just that it was never designed to have the load of that many.

They me told me check device for free space, but I have 3.7 gig free so is not that here (but maybe helps you). Good luck!

Oh and a tip, get your trade partner to send you an invite to their Nh. Don't join it, just use the invite to visit their farm off your chat tab. Faster too.

Regarding the friends list, I regularly trim it (via Game Center) to keep only Hay Day active players. I'm a moderate trader and by doing this I keep it in the 75-100 friends range. Very manageable.
I also noticed that my recent hardware upgrade (from iPad mini 1 to iPad mini 4) made a huge difference in the display of the friends tab.

Regarding the followers list I resorted to an extreme approach: I keep it empty, and delete immediately new followers. That's not particularly nice but at least I don't have any performance issue, and I read many horror stories about RSS being emptied by last helpers and followers.

Good luck and happy farming!

I set up a FB ID so I could trade but got so many friends on it that it ruined my game - had to delete it in the end. I suppose if I had restricted it to just people I wanted to trade with, it would have been ok...

If i am deleted my facebook friend, did my rss will losing the slot?

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Originally Posted by Tomville

Oh and a tip, get your trade partner to send you an invite to their Nh. Don't join it, just use the invite to visit their farm off your chat tab. Faster too.

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I never thought of this! What a great idea for the future, thank you Tomville. I find many of your replies resourceful :)

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Originally Posted by Veyli

If i am deleted my facebook friend, did my rss will losing the slot?

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I don't think you lose the slot. I've been through many add/delete friends phases through GC and never lost a slot. The number of friends to get to the next slot seems to be adjusted though.

You won't lose your slots that you opened by having lots of friends. If you want all the slots and not all the raiders then add a FB account, make friends with all the fb friends in the fb friend thread. get 550 friends. get all free slots. delete em.

take about 4 days. 3 days to add them all. (they add expotentially. after you get the first 100 others start sending you requests it gets out of hand fast. then check hayday to make sure the last box says you have to pay diamonds to get it and there is no more you need X friends to get box.

then delete em all. (takes about a day)

as the farms currently work(last time I tried) once unlocked always unlocked. so as long as at one point in your farms career it was connected to at least 550 other farms.....you get the free slots.

Hope this helps and continues to be true.

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Originally Posted by Tomville

Oh and a tip, get your trade partner to send you an invite to their Nh. Don't join it, just use the invite to visit their farm off your chat tab. Faster too.

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I often wondered about this. I've received invites but have been afraid to hit the visit button for fear of losing my own neighborhood (I'm the leader, hubby a Luddite and doesn't want to be co-leader).

If you just 'visit' another neighborhood is does it mean you aren't losing your existing neighborhood? Or do you still need an invite back to your own hood? Anybody know?

(I suppose I could make my baby farm coleader and try it out, but still kind of paranoid so if someone could share their experience it would be really appreciated! :D)

Shepherdgirl- if you click on the "visit" button, you are just able to check out that person's farm, I do this when someone requests to join my hood, to get a little bit of a look into what kind of farmer they are. As long as you don't click "join" when they send you an invite, you are okay. :)

Kei- have you tried just searching for that friend's boat score when trading? I have to use that option sometimes because my friends list lags and sometimes freezes the game. (It's not nearly as expansive as yours though :))

Does it always happen? If I let the game load up and then scroll to my friends list it's a little bit easier that way. Maybe you could remove some inactive friends? It may be time consuming, but this way you could still engage in trading.

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Originally Posted by shepherdgirl

I often wondered about this. I've received invites but have been afraid to hit the visit button for fear of losing my own neighborhood (I'm the leader, hubby a Luddite and doesn't want to be co-leader).

If you just 'visit' another neighborhood is does it mean you aren't losing your existing neighborhood? Or do you still need an invite back to your own hood? Anybody know?

(I suppose I could make my baby farm coleader and try it out, but still kind of paranoid so if someone could share their experience it would be really appreciated! :D)

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You are in no danger using invite for visiting farm that invited you. If you weren't already in a Nh then you might accidentally join theirs by a misclick, but if you are already in a Nh that can't happen.

Thank you Tomville and Karliez. :)