Friends & Gifting

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This page overviews everything players need to know about the friends page and explains features that are available that are relevant to friends and gifting.​​​​​​​

How to Add Friends
Open the game and at the bottom of the screen there's a bar it's right where the inventory is, on that bar there's a tab called "Friends" click that then at the top there's a tab called "Other Players".

It's also referred to as "Random Players List" in the game.

Players can then click select all (or any number a person wishes to invite) then click "add friends".

This list updates every 24 hours from the last time the player invited people. If a Player wishes to refresh the list before the 24 hours is up, they can spend 10 rubies.

(Ex. Player invite people at 10pm, it's not till 10pm the following day, that more can be invited)

There is a more advanced way of searching for friends under "Other Players" which is by clicking Advanced Search. When clicking Advanced Search players have different filters they can use to find specific friends.

In order to search with these filters players have to pay rubies, it starts off with 10 rubies then adds 20 for almost any filter chosen, when selecting languages, it doesn't count towards the total price of rubies needing to be paid.

Another way to do it is by adding the Player Login (aka username, player ID, game ID, etc.) of someone the player may know plays the game. The player can do this by clicking the "G5 Friends" tab and entering their Player Login in the space provided.

They then need to accepted as a friend and once they do, the two players will then be able to visit each other and earn reputation points. Players will also be able to see what profession the other one has and vice versa (Archaeologist, Mechanic, Psychic, or Pathfinder).

How to Remove Friends
If players wish to remove friends, it's a quick and easy process.

First go to the friends list by clicking on the clasped hands on the bottom left corner of the screen, the players friends list will then appear and if they know the nickname they can type in the search box in the upper left corner of the friends list screen.

When the player finds their friend in the list, there's an X in the upper right corner, if that is clicked then is a message about removing the friend comes up along with three options.

If sure about removing the friend then select "Yes, remove"

If unsure then select "Cancel"

If this player is causing you trouble and/or being abusive then please select "Block"

It is important to note that a block is FOREVER. Players cannot unblock, they cannot see who they have blocked and support can't do anything about unblocking or see who a player has blocked.

If wanting to see which friends are inactive then change the sorting to "Recent Activity" and start at the bottom of the list as the friends who were inactive last would be at the bottom. Players can choose to visit the friend to see if any recent event locations are unlocked or choose to click on the chat bubble which shows the date they were last logged in. There is also the option of clicking the chat bubble to see when they last logged into the game.

Finding Your Player Login ID
There are two ways to find a player login ID in the game. This isn't to be confused with your nickname as they're two seperate things.

Click the avatar to reach your profile screen and on the right side of the screen there will be different fields to type in information to fill out the profile. The top field titled "Player Login" that's what your player login ID will be.

Another way is to click the "Invite Friends" (bottom tabs) or "G5 Friends" tab (top tabs). There will be a text field where a player can type in a someone's ID to invite them to be your friend in the game, looking above that shows the player login name.

This is the information people look for when they ask for your player login ID (or game/player ID).

Gifting
Friends can be gifted in a few ways:
 * Viewing their wishlist and sending a gift manually
 * Checking the News Feed
 * Gifting back or upon a request

A friend can be gifted any collection items or assemblers that are not part of a current event. Those items and assemblers usually become available in the next couple of events.

For Collections, clicking the item will present a "pop up" telling the player the item name, the collection it's from and whether or not they've collected it. If choosing "send gift" it will send one from the user's inventory to that friend. If choosing "cancel" nothing will be sent and the item will remain in the players inventory.

When accepting a collection item, the game offers a "thank you" gift which the friend can choose to send to the other player or click the X in the upper right corner to ignore it and have nothing sent.

Thank you gifts are often assemblers, although, a gift box can be sent as a thank you gift as well and they do not come out of a players inventory.

Assemblers
Assemblers require a certain level in order to be transferred, it is dependent on the location and if the player has the location unlocked or not. A single friend can be given up to 10 collection items and 1 assembler a 24 hour period.

Assemblers are not removed from a player's inventory when given and upwards of 1000 assemblers can be gifted in a 24 hour period (one for each friend as the max number of friends in the game is 1000)

When "rejecting" a gift, the gift does not get returned to the original gift giver, instead, it just disappears and is gone forever.

If a player wishes to ask their friends for Artifacts assemblers, they can do some of the following
 * Message their friends
 * Change nickname in game to "Artifacts Only" or "No gifboxes plz." or both. Screenshotting the artifact and changing it so that their profile photo also seems to help.
 * Empty wishlist

Requests
If a player has a specific item they wish acquire but the wishlist is already full then they can request it directly from a any number of friends to all friends.

Open up collections, find the desired item, then click on the friends icon underneath it. It will then show a page of all the players friends so click on any number of friends or select all friends then click "send request"

The requests work the same as wishlists do when sending assemblers.

Wishlist
A wishlist is a list of five items or less that a player wishes their friends to send them, a player can wishlist collection items and assemblers, however, a player can not wishlist assemblers during an event and players can not wishlist Artifact assemblers.

To wishlist an item, a player must open the collections then go to the item they wish to request. There is a little green + click that and it will be added to the top bar where the five squares are. A player can do this for up to five items. The requests will show up on a friends News Feed.

The boxes a player might see on a friend's wishlist indicates how many collection items that they have.

Inbox
A players inbox is where they receive the gifts that their friends send them. It is split into two sections "Gifts" and "Requests".

Gifts is where players will see what their friends have gifted them, whether it be collection items or assemblers.

Under the 'Gifts' tab, if the user accepts a collection item as a gift they will be prompted to send their friend a "Thank You Gift" This will give the sender a random assembler, even if the player does not own it, for no cost.

The Requests tab is when a players friend requests a specific collection item from them via the "friends" request button in the collections list.

The inbox can hold up to 50 gifts in total, anything that a player might receive post 50 gifts is not counted and therefore "lost". There is not a way of getting those gifts back or them showing up at a later time.

If players happen to see that their total number is 100 or more that's because that's the total number of notifications that they have as it counts new updates in the News Feed, pending friend and game invites and the gifts/requests in the inbox as well.



News Feed
On the user's News Feed, a listing of wishlist items of friends will appear, as well as any event accomplishments or Level ups from other friends. If players want to see what they have recently added on their wishlist this information can be seen with the 'My Feed' button.

When clicking an assembler item in the News Feed will automatically send it; clicking on a collection item will prompt the game to show information about the collection before sending it.



Visiting Friends
When the current player visit's a friend's game, the following information will be displayed about that friend:
 * Reputation - The amount of scenes that friend has visited in others' games (not to be confused with their Reputation Level).
 * Reputation Level - The type of the bonuses they can provide, increases with reputation.
 * Friends - The number of people added by the person you are visiting.
 * Collections - The number of collections assembled by this friend.
 * Monsters - Monsters defeated by the friend.
 * Mini-Games - The number of times the friend has completed mini-game locations.
 * Achievements - The amount of achievements unlocked by the person being visited.

Once inside a friend's game, the player can click on up to 5 locations if under reputation level 10 (goes up by 1 after reaching reputation level 10, see reputation for details) per friend every 24 hours, with each using 10 units of Strength. The visiting player will receive 5 EXP and 10 Coins for each location "charged," and random collection items. It is unknown if there is a pattern to receiving collection items.

Each "charge" will provide its bonus for one exploration of the scene in the friend's game (see the next section for more information on friend bonuses).

When inside a friend's city, the rest of a player's friends are sorted into a list at the bottom right hand of the screen.

The list is sorted by player level and upon completing the visit, a green check mark will show up on the friends avatar in the list below. This is helpful to keep track of who has been visited already and who has not.

Strategy for Visiting
Each player may apply bonuses to five, six, seven etc. to the maximum of ten (depends on the player's Reputation level) every 24 hours to locations in their friends' games. This is what players tend to refer to as "charging locations". Each bonus earns the player half point toward their next Reputation level, costs 10 Strength ("pink energy") and provides a one-time exploration benefit according to the player's role as described in the previous section. "One-time" means that it provides a bonus which is applied for one exploration of a location (once the location is played, it will be gone).

Bonuses are not cumulative, if a player has two Pathfinder friends who charge the same location(s) then the Pathfinder bonus will only count count for will provide one 5% bonuses rather than one 10% bonus to the chances of a collection item drop at that location. The same location may be charged by another Pathfinder later the same day and the player will still have a 5% collection item bonus.

Players can also get all types of bonus combos on their charged locations, their friends may end up charging a location with each type of bonus.

Ex. Pathfinder friend and a Psychic friend applying bonuses to the same location will provide one 5% increase to the chance of a collectible item drop and a 10% reduction to the energy cost of doing one exploration at that location.

However, thanks to at least five friends appearing as floating avatars in the player's City, they can click on one avatar at a time and play the locations that they've charged then once those are clear then the player can click another person and play those charges. This can be beneficial if the more than one player has charged the same location with the same type of bonus.

Ex. If two Archaeologist friends are floating avatars on the map and they've both charged the Crystals mini game then clicking one of them and then playing Crystals means that the player has used the bonus. If the player clicks the second Archaeologist friend then another Archaeologist bonus will be applied to Crystals since the first one has already been used up on the first play.

A player can only apply a bonus to a single location once per 24 hours.

Since the player has a limited number of bonuses to apply, they could be strategic in how they apply them if they so please. Some players who are more casual players of the game may not want to think too deeply on it while others prefer to get the most out of the game may want to be strategic about it.

Players should always click on the favourited locations (the locations with a star on them) then do the past event locations (as players use the previous event locations to earn the most event entry items which are needed to enter the event location).

If visiting a friend who have no favourited locations then it's always possible to message them and ask where they would like bonuses to be applied but most will not go to this trouble, so here are a few recommendations that should work in most circumstances: In general no matter what a players bonus is...
 * Charging Totem's gives extra coins, energy and experience depending the totem. The amount given will vary based on Ranks. It's hard to keep track of what totem gives what as a result of charging since the developers have seem to change this a lot.
 * 1) Pathfinders could apply one action to the current event because of the increase to the chance of a collection item drop and events require the assembly of several collections to complete
 * 2) Psychics and Mechanics could apply one action to the current event
 * 3) * Most common reasons to keep exploring an event's location after reaching Master level is for event related collection/assembler items or event keys (Ex. "Amethyst Pendants")
 * 4) * High-level locations are good choices since they give the most event keys
 * 5) * Apply as many actions as can be applied
 * 6) Archaeologists could apply their bonuses to the locations with the greatest coin drops available for the friend's level which would be high level locations where coins per search are 100+
 * Always apply one action to the current event
 * Apply other actions to mid-level locations as these have a lot of quests/cases
 * Mini-Games are good choices due to a lot of quests being related to them

Friends List
When looking at the friends list, players have options of how to sort their friends list or to search for a specific friend.

These are split into four categories:

Interaction with me

 * This will sort a players list by showing the players who were the last to interact with their friends (Chat/Visiting/Gifting)

Recent activity

 * This will sort players list by showing which friends/players were last active on their accounts

Level

 * This sorts by player level highest to lowest

Alphabetize

 * This sorts the players list by showing friends "Nicknames" in ABC order

Gift Limit
As players can only gift 50 collection items and 1000 assemblers per day (1 assembler per friend) if they can quickly run out of friends to gift collection items to. If players have maxed out on sending collection items and assemblers then the gift box under your friends avatar in the list will become grey.

Players can only send a request to friends per 24 hour period. They are limited to asking one friend for one collection item. They cannot ask the same friend for anything other collection items until the 24 hour period is up.

The gift limit is per 24 hour period so if a player first sent out gifts on Saturday at 12.03pm, the gift limit will not be lifted until 12.03pm Sunday.



1000 Friends
If players are trying to work towards getting the 1000 Friends for the Team Spirit totem then it takes a bit of work to earn it. G5 has placed a limit of 1000 across all their games if a player has downloaded other G5 games then they need to remove their friends and anyone pending in that game in order to earn 1000 friends in Hidden City.

Players need to look at their list and remove anyone who is not a Hidden City Player as through the Other Players tab, they can invite other plays from other G5 games and those friends may not play Hidden City. They can do this by clicking the avatar, the avatar shows a lot of information including what other games the other player has played, if Hidden City isn't listed then remove the friend.

As players get closer to reaching that 1000 friend goal (around 990), they need to keep their waiting tab clear of anyone pending, so those friends must be accepted or declined right away. Remember before accepting the player asking to be your friend check their avatar and see if they are a Hidden City player or not.

Friends on the Map
When a friend has visited a fellow player a pop up will show up on their main screen. The pop up will show more than one friend if more than one friend has visited the player. When clicking "Visit Friends" it will take the player to their Friends list so they can visit friend/s back but it will show all of the friends and not just the ones that have visited the player. If a player clicks on the avatar then they will be taken to that friends City without having to go through their friends list to find said player

There is also a feature where friends show up as floating avatars in their friend's City.
 * This feature is one that allows friends who visit another players City to appear on their map. Players click their friends avatar and then a beam shoots out showing where the friend has given a bonus. Players can have upwards to 5 friends floating around on their map.

Player Professions
When a friend visits and clicks on one of the locations, the player gets a certain type of "bonus" from the friend depending on which bonus the friend has applied to their account. This bonus is given by the game upon creation of a players account, it's referred to as their "Profession". A player does not have the option to choose what profession they are. If a player wishes to know what bonus they give, there are a few ways to find out.
 * Have a friend click on your avatar through the Friends List
 * Have a friend visit you
 * Look at your stats (the 5 Star Achievements) and the symbol as well as the name will be right of your avatar.

Archaeologist
The Archaeologist bonus gives an increase of 10% on coins for exploring. (Ex. Get extra coins if a friend clicks on the Station ) This shows up as a coin symbol with a red background and hands in the middle. Extra spacing

Mechanic
The Mechanic bonus gives an increase of 10% experience points for exploring the location. (Ex. If a friend clicks on City Hall, a user will get extra experience points) It shows up as a green wings symbol with hands icon at the top of the location pop up.

Psychic
The Psychic bonus reduces energy consumption by 10% on a location. (Ex. If friend clicks on the Station that costs 25 energy by rank 5, a user will only use 20) This shows up as a blue icon with a lightning symbol with hands at the top of the location pop up.

Pathfinder
The Pathfinder bonus increases the chances of finding a collection item by 5%. (The chances are higher for finding that collection item that the player could need in the location that the bonus is active in) This shows up as a little brown bag with a purple background and hands joining int the front at the top of the location pop up.

While it is possible to have more than one bonus applied to a location, it is not possible to have the same bonus on the same location before it's played. If two friends who have the energy bonus and they both click on the same location before players can play it, then they will only get an energy reduction once, not twice. Players can easily see what bonuses they have for a location by hovering over the hands that are on a location.

Bookmarked Locations (Starred)
Players can "favourite" locations in the game by first clicking on the location then on the left side is a red banner with a star, click that and it pins the location label (banner) to the map. Players can choose up to five locations.

If players see stars on their friends maps then they are locations that their friends have given a bonus to, each star represents a type of bonus (Archaeologist, Mechanic, etc.) If they see stars on their friends maps then they are locations that their friends have favourited and are good choices to give a friend bonus too.

Chat
The game has an a chatting function in which players can interact with their friends. It also has settings which allows players to get notification and/or showing only friends that are online vs all friends they've chatted with, whether those friends are online or not.

In beginning of the game where players learn about different things, the game asks you to send a message to a couple of friends, this is done so that they understand how the chat works.

This is a great function to have because it allows communication between friends and tips to be shared easily in game.

Game Invites
Most of the time when a player or a friend in a players friend list in the game install another G5 game, G5 will then automatically send out invites to that game to everyone in a players friend list from Hidden City (and/or any other G5 games that they may have installed).

There is not a way to currently block them, unless they remove the friend but please note that in most cases your friend didn't send it, G5 sends the invites automatically.

Deleting them can be a pain but the fastest way to delete them is to click on the picture in the middle then wait about five seconds until the video reaches 26 seconds at which time the "delete" button becomes clickable and the player can delete it.

The max number of game invites a player can have is waiting 50 and players will still be receive invites from other players though the amount that invites waiting for an accept or decline has a max of 50.

Event Gifts
During events, a player gets daily gifts from clicking on the event Totem that stands in the front of City Hall. It gives a player different items depending on the totem rank. The totem changes its name from event to event.

Once these gift boxes are collected they are put into a chest sitting in front of the totem. This also changes names per event.

Once players reach 100 gifts inside their gift box, gifts will stop appearing on the map after completing a scene. But players can still accept gifts from friends and those gifts will still go into the gift box.

Since the last few events the number of gift boxes appearing on the map were significantly reduced and now they appear only after playing the event location, after the start of each day and after the event specific totem is charged. As a result lots of players end up with having more stars than boxes to open, but after opening 700 boxes the player will end up again with more boxes than stars to open them.

Inside the chest, it is required to earn 12 stars before a player can open their gifts; you can earn stars in the event location, Magical Items, Excavations, event collections, and certain event related quests.

It is most important to note that there are limited collection items, limited assembler items, limited higher-energy units and coins, and limited tools. For 1000 opened boxes players will receive 52 collection items, 300 assemblers, 20 event-related collection items, 40 tools and 73 weapons against monsters.

After opening 500 boxes, a player eventually gets down to gift boxes giving only a small amount of energy and coins plus occasionally an event-specific collection items. At least 10% of the boxes will be empty. There is always an event-specific collection that gives a player stars to open the boxes during the event and about 100 energy points after the event is over. That is why it is worthwhile to continue to open the boxes even after the player opens 500 of them. They lose the stars they collected after the event is over, so it is better to spend them during the event.

The first 200 boxes give the player plenty of items. Every single one of them has an item. After that boxes that have only coins and energy and nothing else start to appear. Only the first 200 boxes give non-event-related collection items and assemblers. Players receive 52 collection items and 300 assemblers (note: the boxes that show assembler when opened give you three assemblers of the kind, and this is the reason why the assemblers received are more than opened boxes). The first 200 boxes also contain event-specific collection items, so there is a chance that a gift box my contain more than one collection item.

200 - 300 boxes, less than 10% have only coins and energy. The collection items a player receives are only related to the gift box collection. The only other items a player can receive are tools and weapons against the monsters.

300 - 400 boxes, 30% of the boxes have only coins and energy. There is a chance of getting an empty box but it is less than 1%.

400 - 500 boxes, 50% have only coins and energy, 2% are completely empty, and some of the boxes have only entry keys (Ex. Desert Charms) to the event location, coins and energy.

A player is also able to be gifted gift boxes by friends. Boxes gifted from other players do not differ from the boxes players receive from the game. If the player has opened more than 500 boxes they even might be empty or if not, they will contain mainly a few energy points or coins, and very rarely something useful to the player. That is the main reason why some players refuse to receive gift boxes and prefer to receive assemblers or collection items instead.

When the event ends at midnight local time for the players, an update usually arrives but if it's a late update then the totem and the chest for the gift boxes will be left behind but unusable.

It is pointless to send gift boxes during a period where there is not an active event. The totem and gift box are there for decoration purposes only and are not clickable. The boxes also do not carry over to the new event. Instead look at a friend's wishlist before deciding what to send them. If empty, send an artifact assembler or any collection item/assembler.

Add List
By adding your Player Login (Game ID) to this list, you are agreeing that players may add you and that you are an active player. If choosing to no longer play, please remove your name from the list. If unsure what your player login is then please refer to the heading above "How to Find Your Player Login"

Note: IDs are not case sensitive but it is space sensitive make sure that your ID is written correctly.

If anyone sees an ID listed that is an inactive player please comment below so one of the mods or the Admin can remove it.

Please note that this list is for player IDs and not nicknames, as you cannot add someone by using their nickname


 * puffinlover55 (Admin)
 * Shanera (Mod)
 * Scorpion660 (Mod)
 * Jet Kirby (Mod)
 * Zonko64 (Admin of German HC Wiki)
 * Hidden City Hustlers (Annabella is a moderator of this FB group)
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Related Pages

 * Upper City
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 * Hidden City Info
 * Guidelines for Creating Item Maps
 * Locations
 * Events