Thread:Sharol46/@comment-22439-20160118000018/@comment-24668482-20160118073739

It is not actually possible to send a real message in the game. That hint about leaving hints on friends desks refers to visiting them (the wordy is a bit misleading) but there is no in-game communication system (yet). Players come up with creative ways of getting around this.

You can change your name in the game, and some players will do this in order to send short messages to their friends. For longer messages, they use multiple name changes and send a gift with each name (the gift will always show the name used to send it, not most uptodate name). So each gift will have a name attached that when added together make a message. There is no guarantee that the friend will notice the message when accepting gifts, and of course each name change costs crystals, so this can be a very expensive message solution and probably best left for emergencies.

Others use avatars in the same way. Like names, the avatar next to a gift from you as your friend sees it in their inbox will be the one you were using when you sent gift (and not one used now). So you can change your avatar to a simple text box with message for friend, send a gift, and change it back to normal avatar. It is unlikely that others will see the message if fast, but I wouldn't use it to post anything too private just in case. Again, you can use multiple avatar changes and gifts to send longer messages. Avatars have the advantage of being free to change (so you can change as often as you like) but disadvatage that have to be logged into facebook and use facebook profile picture to have a unique avatar in the game. So would probably need a facebook account that is just for games to use, and not your actual account as the profile picture changes might seem a bit strange to your FB contacts.

I think eventually, a lot of people just start to limit their friends lists to players that they can communicate with somewhere else if needs be.Such as using friend codes posted in one of the many active forums for the game. Then they can hopefully make contact with the friend in that place if they need.