Thread:Neo34/@comment-29694704-20160825125014/@comment-27642721-20160827094636

"I of course did not know that I as Joyota's friend was getting dumped into players FL. When given thought it makes sense. Kinda like a tit for tat"

If A is in B's FL then B is in A's ...that's the way it's supposed to work. So when Player becomes your friend, you become his, just like for anyone else.

"Player" disappearing from your FL is just you being deleted from the Player's FL...again, that's the way it usually works for those keen to keep only active players...you don't gift regularly enough, you get deleted. In this case, though, I suspect it's just members of Mytona/G5 staff having a clearout every so often after they've analysed the data....maybe they only reduce the numbers to 10 or so rather than completely wipe the Player FL and so in some accounts you survive for longer depending on your position within any given list.

I now have to add jaw ache to my spinning head...."is because player "x" doesn't share a common thread to ALL of Joyota's friends."

No...because if player "x" isn't friends with you and therefore doesn't share a common thread with ALL of Joyota's friends, you are in the same position: you're not friends with "x" so you don't share a common thread with ALL of Joyota's friends. So if x doesn't get a Player added to their FL but you do, it has to be for a different reason.

One possibility could be that the Joyota FL wipe only takes some database entries out "cleanly". As far as the G5 server friends database is concerned, it's just a whole lot of id pairs (a,b),(x,Joyota)...(Marie,Joyota),...etc. If Joyota deletes x, for instance, the pair just gets removed so you end up with (a,b),...(Marie,Joyota)... But because the wipe is not a normal delete function, perhaps the majority, but not all, don't get removed cleanly: (a,b),...(Marie, ),.... If G5 have set up some monitoring for these database corruptions then the (Marie, ) record immediately gets filled with a Player account to one, tidy up the database & two, act as record of the wipe occurring. You end up with (a,b),...(Marie,Player),.....

So I suspect a normal deletion of, or by, Joyota for a single friend won't result in a Player substitution but it would be good to find out.