Really glad I found this forum - I've really gotten into this game and I need some friends to move forward - I'm happy to add people as an exchange - so please add me: Marsm

Hawke, I've just sent you a friend request.

Skale87 I've also sent you a request.

Jeffj - I've also sent you request.

Avantitop - request sent

I play daily and would really get my network to increase, and sending out random invites via the game is not very effective.

Add claytankers for iPad/iPhone version. I play all day 10+ times!

Like Hawke above, I want to get my hotel up and running and I need all the pieces, so if anyone can fire some of these across, it would be massively appreciated and I'll reciprocate in whatever way I can to make your life easier.

Please send some of these if possible:

DND Signs
Bath Towel
Disposable Shampoo
All-Inclusive Bracelet

My name in the game is: Marsm

Out of curiosity, how does the neighbour thing work, in terms of visiting neighbours and "helping yourself" to stuff - is it the same as the "built-in" neighbour, where I can go once a day and take items, and can I do that with every neighbour, every day?

Please add me...I'm McFarren Air

I play every day, 5+x/day

Trying to build my flight school - need text book, goggles and helmets

Trying to build hotel- need shampoo and DND sign

I can give DND sign and slide rule

Thanks

What I find frustrating about this game is that you spend coins to upgrade/build THEN you find out you need stuff and have to wait!!! ERR

I'll add you tomorrow McFarren Air - I've exceeded my invites for one day.

And yeah, I hear you - you spend the cash, and then find out you're missing like 10 items that take days, if not weeks, to get. I'm so tired of flying to one destination over and over again with the hope of getting an item - tedious stuff

Add me Yorkshireguy1981

Think like the game designer / developer...

They want to make money -- at least without making it infuriatingly obvious.

So we build each of these structures, only to be faced with the nearly insurmountable challenge of... finding four cheap shampoo bottles.

The friend-sharing system is rather helpful, especially now that we've got a network going (I went from 3 friends to 15 friends in a day? Thanks guys!), and to answer someone else's question -- the friend-visiting system works just as you thought, with visits allowed at any time and item pick-up limited to five items in a 24-hour period. The more reputation (hearts? Ooookay) you get, the more friends you can pick up from in your visits. Pick-ups are both ways beneficial. If someone picks up from you, you get a "I wuz here!" flag on your city, and upon tapping it, you get an item too.

If you look in the Collections treasure chest, you start to figure out the puzzle -- you have to assemble pieces and items into arrays that then either grant you a timed bonus or a structure (the Pet Shop, etc.) or a super-bonus. I'm not speaking down to you guys -- I'm sure you've figured this out for yourself... but the thing that is missed is that some of these items are easier to find by visiting friends and doing pickups (sports bag, anyone?). Then too, if you strategically use your timed bonuses, such as SpyGlass, with dispatched trips to a destination, you dramatically increase your chances of getting that item that is driving you freakin' nuts!!! Of course, the game developers are a crafty lot with what must be a euphoria derived from making people go crazy, so they limit the help that we can give each other (don't let the mice conspire against the cats). What I'd really like to crack is the algorithm they employ to drop items from flights. I mean, I need a Bali surfboard, and out of sixty flights there, all I get are paint cans and copiers??? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!

Please use this forum to forewarn others, too, about what particularly tough items-to-find you've been faced with when building more advanced structures. That Hotel is looking like a confab of misery (those stupid shampoo bottles), but I'm sure we'll pull together. And if any of the game designers happen to browse through this forum, could they (you) please take a suggestion? Build in a means of cashing in surplus items, even if it's 1-5 coins per item -- I've got enough welders and air conditioners already.

Please add me to friends. Nickname: Getto
Daily Player!!