Board Thread:Tapped Out Help/@comment-21519-20140301023042

So during the Valentine's event many of my neighbors' towns weren't giving out Valentines. I assumed they weren't bothering to take part in the rather unimpressive event. During the Christmas and Halloween events I also had non-participating neighbors from whom I couldn't get the event currency, but I could get regular currency in the usual manner. During the Valentine's event, nothing. But hearts were cheap and easy to come by so I didn't particularly care.

Now, however, there are friends whose towns I visit where I can't perform any action, and thus can't get any FP, which I'm far more interested in maxing out each day than I was with hearts. Yesterday it was four towns. Now these were towns that gave the appearance of not being played with too actively any longer. I hit 100 friends shortly after the Christmas event started, so anyone on my friends list has been playing for at least three months or very close to it. But these towns were still pretty early in the game; one was only on Level 16. I figured they weren't playing anymore anyway, so I might as well cut the weight. I unfriended them, then came over here and chose a few names off the corkboard. However, I got an error message when I added them, saying I was already at 100 friends. I confirmed that these names were no longer on my friends list and did not appear when I shuffled through my friends' towns on that whatever it's called screen, then tried again, and got the same result.

Now today, not counting the four absent friends, who have not returned, I have twelve friends from whom I was not able to get any points. And I got points from each of those towns yesterday, so even if they're no longer actively participating, I know they should still be in the mix. For that reason, as well as my concern that I won't be able to replace friends whom I delete, I kept them on my friends list. But this is getting alarming. If significant fractions of my friends' towns become impossible to interact with and impossible to replace, then what started as a pleasant diversion might turn into a nightmare of frustration. Has anyone else encountered either of these problems or, better yet, found a way to correct them? Thanks! 