darkSpyro

Quote: sklndrmommy

Ok you answered my question as I asked it. If I'm busy checking these friends I can't spend that time starting up on a different tap game, etc. I get it... I love this game and I love this community, but I'm afraid this is going to wear me out.

Just get your kids to do it.

Quote: Woz

Add: Woz

For the record, I defriended everyone BEFORE saving to the iPad, manually saving to the cloud, and THEN applying the update. It didn't help. Activate still remembers old pre-save friends.

Unfortunately, this with this new "feature" that rewards new friends and spurns old ones, I don't imagine it will be long before the word "churn" starts being used in these threads...

I can confirm that I did not get the bonus for adding you again Woz.

Speaking of churn. I have 38 invites (and growing by the hour) and my friend list is full. I could be a real jerk but I'm not going down that road...

But I did dump everyone that had not logged in the last 1 day.

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Just get your kids to do it.

Haha. I tried that last night but my 9 year old wouldn't fall for it. She did like 5 visits then went back to Candy Crush. And this is from a girl whose favorite part of the game is finding Hyde.

Woz I added you back and your back on my list, but no kudos.

You can add me. I'm HappyGamer73 on Activate.

Is there still a way to see how often a friend has gifted you?

Quote: Cheshire

Is there still a way to see how often a friend has gifted you?

If there is, I haven't been able to find it.

I cannot understand why I have 99 friends in my Activate account and the game shows only 96.
The problem is that these are 3 new friends, so I am missing 150 kudos.

Quote: sungren150

I cannot understand why I have 99 friends in my Activate account and the game shows only 96.
The problem is that these are 3 new friends, so I am missing 150 kudos.

My game never seems to add up friends right. Did you actually count them?

Add me iganagor

Please add to the list:

Marcallen Scarmon

Thanks.

Add me and my son for more kudos

chritall and chritall2

Although I have a very loyal group of friends, i'm open to refresh some of them, to earn some kudo points.

Myy activate id is JPO

My problem is it takes time to get the Kudos. It's that the game became work. Personally I think games like this are better designed to allow me to pop in and out for 5-10 minutes rather than sit down and slog through a 60 minutes of click a name, find the shiny, rinse/repeat.

My morning routine was to fire up the Kurig and start clicking through my collections and missions while I finished a cup of coffee. Now I'm going to have to fire up the full pot just to get through all the Kudos collecting.

What's going to really piss me off is when they offer a new companion that automatically collects your island Kudos for 3000 gems. This just reeks of a setup to add another big ticket money sink into the game. I've never had a problem with the premium item but this one might be too much.

Btw, while I'm complaining congrats to those who got a free Thump house. I'm a little irritated they didn't refund gems to those of us that bought it at full price. I don't have issues when they offer things at reduced rates after I paid full price but it's pretty annoying when they eventually offer it for free.

Hey!
I´m new to the game and I´m looking for friends:
Playing active und will gift everyday!

Activate Name: Goffri

Please add me.

Tanks

For the complainers out there, here's some thoughts that have helped me keep all of this in perspective.

-So far all that can be purchased with kudos is 1 skylander, a worthless mabu house and a few decorations. They have not materially altered the economy of the game with kudos. At least not yet...

-I don't think people HAVE to visit friends to collect kudos. You get upwards of 100/day just from gifts. This just means it will take a little longer to win that skylander but it by no means makes it impossible (I will have to retract this statement if they keep the good Admiral available for only a very short time that is not achievable without visiting friends).

-They made gifting significantly easier and more efficient, so the 100/day shouldn't take very long to acquire at all. Net/net--you'll be spending less time playing the game.

-Most of the good stuff in the game has always cost gems. The best possible way to get gems has always been to visit friends islands (I'd get 15-20 a day just from visits). To the people that complain that they are now forced to visit islands, how did you get gems in the past? If you relied on other means, it takes much longer to acquire gems. If you were OK with that, then not visiting islands and taking longer to collect kudos is just more of the same.

Gifts daily!

Grand Cannon

Feel free to add me to the list! I only have approx 40 friends so theres plenty of room for everyone! My username is the same as it is here: Lady_Valdyme

I'll agree the UI change is nice but Ill disagree on most of the other points.

First, visiting is not the best source of gems. Th best source is buying them. Which I do when an item shows up and I don't have enough in the bank. This is the first premium currency that can't be countered if someone is willing to lay out some cash.

Secondly, there is nothing to suggest they will stop adding more impacting items. Consider the sheer number of wishing stone items they have added since February. Seven new Skylanders and 10 useable houses. At an average of 200 stones each that's 3400 wishing stones. My issue with Kudos are the sheer volume needed.

Now, I'm probably being pissy because we are on the upward swing. I've said it in other threads that wishing stones start to be a non factor as people are able to build up a stock pile. It will most likely happen to Kudos (after they add Kudos Shrines and Cherry's Twin sister Terri the Creepy Wilikin Mail Lady).

I'm done complaining. I've said my peace and I will go back to tap tap tapping away while I wait for anther 60+ Skylanders are released in 3 weeks.

Hey guys Please add me my name is Haseo! I'll try to gift you all everyday!

Hi everyone, I have only one friend. They got me started playing this game. I am not sure how this works, but I do play and gift them every day. I have asked 3 people to be friends with me. If it works out with them, I will ask more. Waiting for the replies. Does it automatically add them to the list or do I have to do something else to add them to my friends list? Thanks for the help. Tn_ladyvol

If they accept your invite, it will automatically add them to your list. When it does, you should see a red and white exclamation by the friends icon to go and collect your reward.

Thanks for the info. And I assume when the hourglass is there means you have to wait to gift again? You do gift when the envelope is there right? Thanks superstickboy for accepting me as a friend. I now have 3 friends....yay.

Quote: Tn_ladyvol

Thanks for the info. And I assume when the hourglass means you have to wait to gift again? You do gift when the envelope is there right?

Yes, The grey timer icon means you have to wait. I haven't tried timing it, but I assume the time between gifting is still 22 hours. The green envelope is to send a gift. The yellow gift box is to receive a gift.

Feel free to add us..we need more friends! Our activate names are Kalistae and Cyg

Thanks to the 50+ people that added me! Me and Adm. Thumpback appreciate it!

Quote: GrandCannon

Gifts daily!

Grand Cannon

How did you get so far ahead in levels and what is it like ;-)


On another note, I'm also maxed out on accepting friends but in game only showing 98... What's up with that?

Nice! And nuh-uh, I'm not sharing my tricks!

**edit**
Actually, my level is 25724. Just sayin......

And thanks all! Just picked me up an Admiral!

I tried to look up my user on activate, and I really can't find myself, just as noted by some user. Damn. Why?

*edit* got it, lookup was disabled in the settings for my account. Didn't remember it, what I set several months ago...

So feel free to add me now. The first incoming invite arrived username: Pici

It is taking a while to accept all invitations. I have to remove a user (damn 100 cap, it makes no sense), choose the other, accept it, wait to synchronize everything...Almost 3 minutes each new friend.
Keep the invitations coming, please, it may take a while but I will try to accept them all.

Hi all, I play and gift daily. Username is wdwfan1973. I have sent invitations to some of you already.

Add me I'm Haseo, I gift just about everyday ^.^

OK. I finally updated. I accepted all the requests that came in yesterday and overnight (I waited to accept until I updated). So now I am ready to ask for other invitations. Just look me up under obidawsn.

On that note, do you see why they did this. A lot of people are complaining, but it has gotten us to use the social aspect a lot more and get more friends.

I gift almost daily. Skylandscaper

Usually I get 1 to 5 gems from gifting vand visiting every day. Today, no gems. I shall see tomorrow.

...suebee_francis for new friend.

Hi there
Would be happy if you add me and my friend!

marzikatzi (i already tried to add some of you)

And my friend

C0lt (with Zero)

We're both active Players and Send Gifts Daily!
Thanks and greetings!

PS: do Open friend requests count as Part of the friendslist and Limit the number of friends?

I'm Kesrael_V. I play every day. This weekend I'm going to sit down and go over my friends list and delete inactive players since I'm currently at 100 and maybe half don't seem to play much anymore.

I have room for 83 more friends. Thanks to all who joined me. Having friends is great!!! Waiting to welcome you.

Quote: Marzi

Hi there

PS: do Open friend requests count as Part of the friendslist and Limit the number of friends?

Hi Marzi--yes they do.

Please add me as well. I have plenty of available slots.

Activate username: PragmaticSquid

Please add me - alwinid

Add me! Shineslikestarlight

@midas73: thank you, good to know

And thanks to all of u who added my friend me!
Still some room for more

Please add me

King Attilart

You can add me too
Activate : F4bien

Do you know if we get 50 Kudos each time we add and remove again and again the same friends?

Quote: f4bien

You can add me too
Activate : F4bien

Do you know if we get 50 Kudos each time we add and remove again and again the same friends?

Others have tested and apparently that does not work.

If someone needs another friend, just add: ExTenebraeLux (on Activate)

I would be happy to visit your islands.

Add me. Username Skyland_Nat
Me and my 4 kids play daily and send gifts as soon as possible

Pls add me lightsleeper. Thanks!

Quote: Pico

My problem is it takes time to get the Kudos. It's that the game became work. Personally I think games like this are better designed to allow me to pop in and out for 5-10 minutes rather than sit down and slog through a 60 minutes of click a name, find the shiny, rinse/repeat.

My morning routine was to fire up the Kurig and start clicking through my collections and missions while I finished a cup of coffee. Now I'm going to have to fire up the full pot just to get through all the Kudos collecting.

What's going to really piss me off is when they offer a new companion that automatically collects your island Kudos for 3000 gems. This just reeks of a setup to add another big ticket money sink into the game. I've never had a problem with the premium item but this one might be too much.

Btw, while I'm complaining congrats to those who got a free Thump house. I'm a little irritated they didn't refund gems to those of us that bought it at full price. I don't have issues when they offer things at reduced rates after I paid full price but it's pretty annoying when they eventually offer it for free.

THIS! I stopped playing the game about two weeks ago because collecting everything started to feel like too much work, and it was hard to just "check in and out". I'm fine with them giving bonuses for using the social features and this update doesn't actually sound that bad... But they've added little things over time so I need to spend about 5-10 minutes just to collect things in my kingdom. I just wish there were some ultimate way to collect everything at once, but they lock it to companions, and I've spent so much on them and saved gems up for more useful things like houses, so I either choose between adding a convenience or not buying what I'd like to be convienence-ing. I simply want to go in and have my things collected, then re-activate stuff. I don't want to need to clear troll camps, Chompy pods and so on. Even with Cape Girl(who I caved on since she's so cheap), it's tedious. Collecting and re-gifting itself feels primitively slow, which is what many aspects of the game felt like before- there will inevitably be a 1000s of gems Kudos collector. If I wanted a collect-a-thon like the game is feeling now, I'd just quit and play the console games, which is what I'm going to be doing.