Thread:Merrimack/@comment-27978325-20160820171654/@comment-32738051-20160820213725

There is a specific player, also on this Wiki I believe, who goes by the name DriveByGifter (or DBG for short) at least for uber gifting purposes. Many members here became aware of him (her?) for some gifting the other day and it sparked a lot of posts. But this is apparently not the first time DBG has uber gifted and so some people may now be referring to uber gifting of this sort as drive by gifting.

Anyway, there are several different types of "magic" that have been known to occur. One type is to gift those to whom the gifter is not yet connected. Another is to gift items that are normally non-giftable, at least not directly. Many use time traveling (TT) to be able to gift more items than normal, including CIs, CEs and special paid room items. Some people also have another method by which they gift more items than normal that is supposedly quicker and easier than TTing. There are also some magic methods that are not related to gifting that have been used to help players, among other things, restore friends lists.

All of the above can be considered forms of cheating and so the only one that is generally accepted and is not a closely guarded secret is TTing (those who do the magic don't want to risk the developers changing the programming to eliminate the loopholes). I know from your profile page that you've TTd forward in the past but not backward. If you want to do more gifting than normal, TTing backwards is the way to do it. You can go a virtually unlimited time backwards and you can keep going backwards over and over the same dates (except possibly during a challenge, when you should probably go no further back than to when the challenge started for you, just to be on the safe side). I've heard TTing forward has benefits but it creates issues once you go back to the current date (I found out the hard way). There is a way to fix some of the issues caused by forward TTing but it is a laborious process and some things can't be fixed (like if you TT forward past the end date of a current challenge, the challenge will end for you and there is no way to get it back...something else I found out the hard way). Anyway, let me know if you have questions about TTing and I'll point you in the right direction for helper materials, in case I'm not able to quickly answer them.

As for sending whole collections, yes, that is true...it is easy, relatively. I do it all the time myself and I may be the only player here who prefers to do so regularly, at least via normal methods and TTing, but I do know others who do it at least occasionally. You still have to scroll to the collection in order to gift it and this part can still make it laborious and time consuming (it helps a little if you know your collection well enough to know roughly how far you have to scroll, something which only comes with practice). But earlier this year the developers changed the Gifts screen so that it doesn't automatically close as soon as you gift an item, meaning it is much easier to gift the 5 items of a whole collection quickly. If one wanted to, one could gift a single friend up to 11 items (2 collections and 1 CE) without TTing and without closing the Gifts screen or losing their place (no more having to re-do the scrolling for each gift...yea!).

Does that help?