Talk:Friends & Gifting/@comment-43596541-20191219205458

Mitigating the Grey50, 2CI / hour:   As I am a Daily Gifter and have a few Friends who help me build up inventory for collections ,  I end up Greying on the 50/day limit on a regular basis. I call it being Grey50 as opposed to begin Grey10 for reacing the 10/day limit for a specific Friend.

It dawned on me that I could use a  very simple rule-of-thumnb to avoid ever  be Grey50 again ... I am waiting a full day to be "!Back to Blue" ( or B2B  as I shorthand it) ... then I will have 50 CIs to send in the next 24 hours ... All I have to do is to count the CIs I send and never go over 2 CI/hr on average... It makes  48 CIs / 24 hours ...

So If I send 10 Cis all I need to fo is note the time and make sure to wait 5 hours before my nexy Gifting session ... So if I send 12 CIs from the Newsfeed  and help a friend build a  collection by sending her/him 8 CIs  ... I  will wat  at least 10 hours before my next Gifting session ...

If I miscount or forgot to note the time of the last send and end Grey50 all I have to do to restart the process is note the nexct time I get "Back to Blue"  and  wait  N hours  to be sure I can send N*2 CIs ... Since many (if nost most) players work ... It means that during the day they'll get room for 10 or 12 * 2 CIs  for when they get home ...

Using this 2CI/hour ruele-of-thumb I can now tell Friends who ask for help when I'll be able to help them according to how many CIs I gifted in my last session ... I think it is simple and easy to follow  and cuts on the "surprise" ... The only hindrance left is the Grey10 for which I only note the time for very close Friends to be able to tell them an estimate of the time they'll have to wait for their incoming Gofts.

I thought others Daily Gofter might benefit of the idea since no one mentioned a 2 CI/hour  rule-of-thumb  ...

YMMV & HAPPY GAMING !