Board Thread:Friend Code Exchange/@comment-26764586-20151004044841/@comment-32738051-20151004064015

Welcome friend! I'm typically on the game daily and I try to make sure I do all my gifting if nothing else. Not usually on this late though. ;-)

As for gifting elements, yep I knew that but I wouldn't if not for this site and it was awhile before I found out. Check out my post on the Eureka board here. I have really worked on my gifting skills over time and the only way I could get this far was by developing an Excel file for keeping track. These days I find it most useful to gift collection items (out of my inventory) 5 at a time (or 2 people per day) and then gifting free items (elements) that will be needed for those collections OR gifting elements on my friends' wish lists OR gifting high level elements. Which I wouldn't be able to do without the Excel tracker. Anyway, going to all that trouble, I've noticed some helpful things. Like it may be beneficial sometimes to refuse gifts. Refused gifts aren't returned to the giver, not for free items (which don't come out of inventory) nor for collection items (which do). Something else I learned here. This can be quite handy for givers to get rid of items when their collection inventory makes it difficult to focus on which collections to build. Not something I recommend doing often, since you're not being a very good friend when you do so. It is also handy for the receivers so they don't add free or collection items they already have an overabundance of and additionally no thank you gift, which is always randomly selected by the system, is taken from their inventory. I don't always accept thank you gifts...depends on my inventory and how badly I want more items to build collections. You never know what you get with them though usually collection items you get are all lower level. When I do accept them, I like to accept them before accepting other gifts. That way, there is a better chance they will get removed, rather than me losing items I need, when I accept other gifts and send thank you gifts of my own. I'm sure at your level, you've learned all this and much more, but it may give you some insight on how I gift, if nothing else. Hopefully, you'll find me a good friend to have. :-)