Talk:Wishlists/@comment-92.24.192.214-20150204172958/@comment-24668482-20150205111959

Thanks come in the form of gifts. There are two types of gifts in the game, thank you gifts (will have a wrapped present icon next to them in your gift box) and real gifts sent by your friend (will have a picture of the item sent next to them in your gift box). When your friend decides to send you a gift, say from your wishlist or from the 'send a gift' tab or 'send a collection item' tab then that gift will turn up in your gift box showing what the item is. When you accept that gift, you will be given the option to 'thank' the friend. Pressing 'thank' will send a thank you gift back to them automatically - it will show up in their gift box with a wrapped present icon next to it and your name (showing you were the one who thanked them). When they accept the thank you gift, they will not get a 'thank' option, as you can't thank a thank you.

So when you send any gift to your friend (combining element, collection item, special item), they will get the option to thank you when they accept that gift. And if they press thank you, you will be sent one of those wrapped present looking gifts with their name attached, showing that they thanked you. If all you receive from one of your friends are these thank you gifts (with the wrapped present icon), it means they are not actually sending you gifts, just accepting the gifts you sent them every day and pressing the thank button.

The thank you gifts contain a single random item inside them. They can be any combining element, a collection item (but only from the first few 'low level' collections, such as coins, books, sports equipment etc.), but they can also contain tools and talismans and even special items. So they are very useful when it comes to building up your inventory. They are automatically generated by the game  - meaning they do not come out of you or your friends inventory. So pressing 'thank' costs you nothing, but could send something nice to your friend. Whether they appreciate that or not depends on what level they are on, how many friends they have and how they play the game. Some players prefer not to receive thank you gifts (you might see some have noTYs in their game name) but that is probably because there is a limit to how much a gift box holds, and they might want to save the space for gifts from their wishlists instead since thank you gifts are random and there is no way to guarantee it will be something they need.