Board Thread:Eureka Moments/@comment-128.252.149.232-20160412183111

We all know how nice it is to get gifts from friends, especially if they are gifts from our wishlists. That's not what this post is about. This post is about why visiting and leaving hints on your friends' tables is good for you. For a little bit of background, in addition to having an experience value and experience level (I am at 9443001/level 254 currently), we also have a reputation value and level. My reputation is currently 92557 and I am at level 62 and I have 77 friends. So, what does this reputation mean for me? It means that when I visit 62 friend's tables, I get a bonus. The bonus for each of these 62 friends I have visited is 100 experience points, 100$ and 1 token (firefly, ladybug, cupid's arrow or carrot). This means that for doing nothing more than clicking the visit buttons, I receive 6,200 experience points, 6,200$ and 62 tokens. These bonuses are openly given every 24 hours (after midnight recycle), but you can get these bonuses a second time after the gifting period recycles (after 7 PM CDT for me). This second bonus is kind of hidden, however. For the first time you click on a visit button, you will receive the "You have received all the bonuses..." message. BUT, when you click on another friend's visit button, you will get the bonus, up to your reputation level - 1, or for me, 61 more bonuses. So, there is an additional 6,100 experience points, 6,100$ and 61 tokens. By leaving hints while visiting a friend, I get additional goodies. For each hint left (either on an award or a photo) I get 1 reputation point, 50 experience points and 50$. Since I am at level 62, I can leave up to 10 hints on each table. With 77 friends this means that I get 770 reputation points, 38,500 experience points and 38,500$ every 24 hours. With 770 reputation points from hints, I am leveling up every 3-4 days. Also, when leaving hints, the game randomly awards collection items every so often, and these are often items that cannot be gifted such as, the exotic vegetables collection with an anti-anomaly chest prize or the wild cats collection with a large elemental chest prize. I usually end up with 25 or so collection items every day by leaving hints. So, you will have to do the math for your own bonuses, and build your own reputation level, but I hope I have shown you that being a good friend is just as good for you as it is for your friend. 