Gifting

Note - the Secret Society game was released in November 2012, however the friend sections were not added until version 1.3 in April 2013. As a result the friends section is still a work in progress, and integration into the game is not perfect. Please see Known Problems With Gifting section for details of current issues with sending gifts.

Gifting Limits
 Currently the SS has a gifting limit in place:

 Each day you may send up to 10 collection items (e.g. coins, rings etc.), which are items you won investigating pictures. These items come out of your inventory (so only send them if you know you do not need them). You can send up to 10 collection items to one friend or send one collection item to each of 10 friends. But once you have sent a total of 10 collection items you must wait until the following day to send more.

 In addition to 10 collection items you may also send up to 50 ‘free gifts’ a day. The free gifts are elements to combine collections (e.g. winding keys, springs gears etc.). Free gifts DO NOT come out of your inventory, but you may have to reach certain levels to be allowed send certain items. You may only send 1 free gift to each friend a day, up to a maximum of 50 friends. You may not send addition elements needed to combine collections to your friends, even if you have many of them in your inventory, as currently the only way to send these items is through the free gift system. Special items needed to play certain rooms (e.g. fireflies for Night Garden; ladybugs for The Mill, carrots for Illusionist’s Room) can be sent as free gifts to your friends, and are a good option to send if you do not have any items on their wish list and you know they have those pictures unlocked (which you can find out by visiting that friend).

Sending Gifts
 To send gifts to you friends open the Friends section of the game by pressing the ‘Friends’ icon on the bottom right hand side of your home desktop.

 Once in the Friends section of the game open the Friends tab (this is usually the default open tab). This is the list of your current friends. Choose a friend you wish to send a gift to and find their info box in the Friends tab. The green ‘send a gift’ button on the bottom left hand of the friends box brings up the gifting screen for that friend. The gifting screen has three sections to it.

Friends Wishlist
 Across the top of the screen is your friend’s current wishlist. These are either collection items of elements to combine collections that you friend needs. You can send these items directly by pressing the item in the friends wishlist (but in the case of collection items you must have the item in your inventory to send*). The items in your friends wishlist will have numbers in yellow boxes above them. In the case of collection items, the number tells you how many you have in your inventory. That number will go down by 1 after you send this item to your friends. In the case of elements for combining collections the number will always be one regardless of how many you have in your inventory, as that is the maximum amount of free gifts you may send to each friend a day. After sending any element to combine collections to your friend from either their wishlist or from the ‘send a gift’ tab the number 1 will disappear from all elements to combine collections in their wishlist, not just the one you sent. Again, this is because you have reached your maximum allowance of free gifts for that friend that day.

Send a Gift Tab
There are two tabs underneath your friends wish list. The tab that is automatically open is ‘send a gift’ – this shows you the list of free gifts you can send to the friend. Items sent from this tab DO NOT come out of your inventory.

This section shows all the elements to combine collections as well as special items available to send through the game. Some of these items require you to be at a certain level to unlock. In the case of these items, if you are not at high enough level in the game, the top left corner of the picture will be folded over and the level you need to be at is listed above the word ‘needed’ (e.g. Level 75 for unicorn blood). You can unlock this item before reaching the specified level by paying with crystals. To do this press the turquioise ‘open for x crystals’ button that is in the place of the ‘give’ button on items you can send. Typically the number of crystals needed to unlock an element is the same as the level needed to unlock it (e.g. 75 crystals will unlock the unicorn blood, regardless of what level you are on).

Pressing the green ‘give’ button under an item will send it to your friend. You may only send 1 item from the ‘send a gift’ tab to each friend a day. The elements to combine a collection sent directly from your friends wishlist count towards this limit, so if you have already sent an element by pressing the symbol on your friends wishlist, you may not send another from the ‘send a gift’ tab.

Send a Collection Item Tab
You can switch from the ‘Send a gift’ tab to the ‘Send a collection item’ tab underneath your friends wishlist. The items you have won investigating pictures are listed in this section – and any item you send from here WILL come out of your inventory. For each item, there is a number next to the picture that tells you how many you have in your inventory. This number will go down by one after you send the item to your friend. Press the green ‘give’ button to send an item to your friend.

Note: some items won in the game cannot be added to your wishlist (they do not have green plus signs next to them in the collections tab). These items will not show up in the ‘Send a Collection item’ tab even if you have many of them. This is because they cannot be sent as a gift.

Known Problems With Gifting
Below is a list of known issues with the gifting interface.

Sending last collection item via wishlist icon
As of the Valentines Update (February 2014) it is impossible to send the last of a collection item in your inventory by pressing the icon on yuor friends wishlist. Any collection item that has a 1 next to it in your friends wishlist is an item you only have 1 of in your inventory. Pressing send through the wishlist will bring up the following warning:


 * "Are you sure? Youn only have one of these. Are you sure you want to give it as a gift?" 

Pressing yes to this notification brings up the normal "your gift has successfully been sent" message. However, the item chosen does not leave your inventory. Instead the first item available in your inventory is sent to your friend in its place. This is typically a low level collection item such as a coin from the 'Coin collection' collection, or a book from the 'Book Set' collection.

Currently, the only way to send the last of a collection item to your friend is to find the item in the 'Send a  collection item' tab in your friends gifting window. For rarer items, this can mean scrolling through 400+ pages of items to find the right item to send.

Related

 * SS Home
 * Friends
 * Visiting friends
 * Wishlists