Talk:Friend Points/@comment-174.17.164.25-20140819092103

A few weeks into this game I switched all my brown houses for blue houses and an strict 8 hour schedule. I thought I was doing great but didn't realize what was happening. It appeared that I was only getting a few visitors a day, why? What happened?

It was because I had nothing for friends to tap.

Imagine a farming type game where your crop (or baked goods or whatever) is to be harvested before it spoils. Your game friends visit while you're away. They harvest your crops on your behalf. They get a reward for doing a good deed and you are saved from spoiled goods.

In the Simpsons game, A "Friend Action" is where your friend comes by while you aren't there and harvests the reward for you. That handshake looking icon? That's your friend handing back the stuff they collected while you were out. The reward is collected and the building timer resets meaning a blue house is ready again 8 hours after your friend tapped it. If there are no rewards to collect, friends can vandalize a few buildings. Just a friendly hello in spray paint. Ha ha.

When you come back to town you get the full value of the reward as if you collected it yourself,  plus $ and FP for having a friend do it. The $ and FP are exactly the same across properties and actions. (You can know exactly how much a friend tap is worth by cleaning graffiti as those buildings earn no $ on their own.)

Everything a friend does in your town is positive. Every tap they give you is extra $ and FP. You want lots of friends visiting and tapping. Your friends want lots of stuff to tap.

Brown houses are great for this because they are cheap to build and the reward is ready in 5 min. Put enough brown houses in your town that you always have rewards for friends to collect.