Board Thread:Tapped Out Help/@comment-70.186.218.222-20160701004351/@comment-26561761-20160701030139

There are 2 different types of friend visits, during or outside of events.

Outside of events
You perform your actions on buildings, be it ones that are ready to collect (have a hovering icon over them) or vandalizing one of the four buildings enabled to do so (have a spray can over them).

Now, here come the complicated stuff. In the past tapping a building with an income, the performed friend action collected the income of the building added a "friend action" of 15, 1 to the income collected, leave it there on the handshake and reset the timer on said building. On mundane terms, your friend made the collection of the building for you and additionally added an extra. Nowadays the reset or even the extra sometimes are not yielded for whatever reason it may be. Interesting enough, the vandal buildings are the only ones that ALWAYS yield that extra as far as I observed.

During Events
The most common occurrence is tapping *insert roaming character of the event here*. They generally prefer roads, this is one of the reasons of why some players reduce the amount of roads on their town, this makes "the pests" converge on that road making it easier to tap all of them. This type of actions normally make your visits rounds take longer since finding them on neighbours towns is not fast in most cases. This types of actions never aid your neighbours.

Other types of actions focuses on buildings. Events like Stonecutters (spying on buildings), the original Superheroes (reporting crimes), the Monorail (dumping buildings), and the Crook and Ladder (starting a fire), used this system and made it possible for the neighbours to obtain some benefit as well albeit in a much smaller proportion.

Outside of those two types, some events had some sort of friend interactions that makes it possible to benefit both parts with them.