Friends & Gifting

If players in Hidden City are looking for a way to add friends to their list for earning more gifts to get wish list items or for upgrading your Team Spirit Totem or simply wanting friends, whatever their reason, there are couple of different ways to add friends in game.

This page will also talk about the things friends can do for their friend and vice versa. It'll also talk about the benefits of visiting friends.

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 "Hidden City Other Players" and this list updates every 24 hours from the last time the player invited people.

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

Click that then click select all (or any number a person wishes to invite) then click "invite"

Another way to do it is by adding the username 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 aka username 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.

They also be able to see what specific boost the other one can give them and vice versa (Archaeologist, Mechanic, Psychic, or Pathfinder).

It is, however, important to note that a player cannot have more than 1000 Friends in the game.

Gifting
Friends can be gifted in a few ways: A friend can be gifted any collection item or assembler, even if it is not on their wishlist. For Collections, tapping the item will send one from the user's inventory to that friend. 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 one assembler every 24 hours. Assemblers are not removed from a player's inventory when given, so it's fine to give as much as possible!
 * Viewing their wishlist and sending a gift manually
 * Checking the user's News Feed
 * Gifting back or upon a request.

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

Giving Assemblers Video Example


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. The player's own queue can be seen with the 'My Feed' button. 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.

On the 'Gifts' tab, if the user accepts a collection item, they will be prompted to gift back the sender. This will give the sender a random assembler, even if the player does not own it, for no cost. Gifting back does not contribute to the Daily Quest that requires giving 3 gifts.

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"

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

If a player wishes to ask their friends for Artifacts assemblers, they can do some of the following It's a good idea to empty it anyways so people won't send a wishlist item instead of an Artifact (Though players will get other items in general and sometimes a present, it depends on if the friend reads/understands what they mean) To a wishlist 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 (5) squares are. A player can do this for up to five items. The requests will show up on a friends News Feed.
 * 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

The boxes a player might see on a friend's wishlist indicates how many of said collection item that they themselves have.

Visiting a Friend
When the current player visit's a friend's game, the following information will be displayed about that friend:
 * Reputation - The amount scenes that friend has visited in other's games (not to be confused with their Reputation Level)
 * Reputation Level - The type of the boosts 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 (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 for visiting 20 places. 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 the bonuses).

Friends Visiting the Player
When a friend has visited a fellow player a 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 play to their Friends list so they can visit friend/s back but it'l show all of the friends and not just the ones that have visited the player.

The last players a person has interacted with in some way will be the first ones to pop up.

Boosts from Friends
When a friend visits and clicks on one of a location, the player gets a certain type of boost depending on the kind that they can give!

 Archaeologist  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.

 Mechanic  gives an increase of 10% experience points for exploring the location. (Ex. Get an increase of experience points for the Station if friend has clicked on that location) It shows up as a green wings symbol with hands icon at the top of the location pop up.

 Psychic  reduces energy consumption by 5% on a location. (Ex. If friend clicks on a 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  increases the chances of finding a collection item by 5%. (Basically, the chances are higher for finding that collection item that the player could need in the location that the boost 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.

Bonuses are applied at the next exploration of that scene. Multiple charges are not cumulative, but do stack. For example, if a Psychic friend and a Mechanic friend both charge the Station, then at the next visit the player will see both a reduction in the energy cost and an increase in experience awarded for that visit. If two Psychic friends charge the Station, then the player will see a reduction in the energy cost for the next two explorations rather than a larger reduction.

If one friend wishes to know what boost they give, they can ask another player to visit them to look. (Look at section above)

Visiting Friends (Strategy)
Each player may apply boosts to five, six or seven locations (depends on the player's Reputation level) every 24 hours to locations in their friends' games. Each boost earns the player one point toward their next Reputation level, costs 10 Strength (the purple lightning bolt) 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.

Boosts are not cumulative, so two Pathfinder friends who boost the same location(s) (but during later times during the day, not at once) will provide two separate 5% boosts rather than one 10% boost to the chances of a collection item drop at that location. But a Pathfinder friend and a Psychic friend applying boosts to the same location will provide one 5% increase to the chance of a collectible item drop and a 5% reduction to the energy cost of doing one exploration at that location.

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

Since the player has a limited number of boosts to apply, they should be strategic in how they apply them. They want to apply boosts to locations that are likely to be visited and ignore other locations. While it is possible to specifically message friends and ask where they would like boosts to be applied, most will not go to this trouble, so here are a few recommendations that should work in most circumstances:
 * Charging Totem's gives extra coins, energy and experience depending the totem. The amount given will vary based on Ranks.
 * Master of Investigation at 1 full star gives 26 extra energy
 * Master of Puzzles at 1 1/2 stars gives 55 extra experience points
 * Collector at 1 1/2 stars gives 100 extra coins
 * Team Spirit at 2 1/2 stars gives 20 extra coins (The amount of extra strength is not accurately tested yet)
 * Explorer at 1 1/2 gives extra energy (The amount given is not accurately tested yet)

General Tips: If a player wants to be equitable, a reasonable formula might be to divide available Strength (after collecting the Team Spirit bonus from the totem) by the number of friends, times 10.
 * Apply one action to the current event if it has been unlocked.
 * Pathfinders should always 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
 * Psychics and Mechanics should apply one action to the current event
 * Most common reasons to keep exploring an event's location after reaching Master level is for event related collection/assembler items or event token's (Ex. "Ancient Keys")
 * Mid-level and high-level non-event locations are generally the more efficient choices for experience and energy boosts than low-level locations
 * Apply as many actions as can be applied
 * Archaeologists should apply their boosts to the locations with the greatest coin drops available for the friend's level.
 * 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
 * Higher level Locations (not to be confused with Rank) will drop more keys for the ongoing Event. The City Hall's minimum is 2, and the maximum is 19 in high level locations with an anomaly.
 * As a follow-up, there is usually little purpose to explore very high level locations for more keys; the Laboratory gives 14 on a median, and a Location such as the Christmas School (which uses about 30 more energy units) will not give a much larger supply (18 at most)

Example:

370 Strength, divided by 150 (15 friends x 10) means that the player can afford to apply about 2 boosts per friend with about 7 boosts left over. So one boost should be applied to the current event for all friends who have unlocked it but have not mastered it, one boost should be applied to a mid-level location, and the left over boosts can be applied to friends who are actively boosting the player (reciprocity is not just for vocabulary tests). If the player returns to the game after their Strength has replenished, they can dole out additional boosts up to the maximum permitted for each friend.

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 it's name from event to event.

There is also a quest asking to pick up 3 or 5 gift boxes that are on the map, sometimes this is accompanied by asking a player to open a number of gifts.

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

Inside the chest, it is required to earn 12 stars before a player can open their gifts; earn stars in the event location, Magical Items, 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, limited tools.

After opening 500 boxes, a player eventually get down to gift boxes giving only a small amount of energy and coins plus occasionally an event specific collection items. There is always an event specific collection that gives you 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 you open 500 of them. You loose the stars you collected after the event is over so it is better to spent them during the event.

First 200 boxes gives the player plenty of items. Every single one of them has an item. After that boxes that have only money and energy and nothing else start to appear.

200 - 300 boxes, less than 10% have only money and energy. The collection items a player receives are only related to the gift box collection.

300 - 400 boxes, 30% of the boxes have only money and energy

400 - 500 boxes, 50% have only money and energy, 1% is completely empty, some of the boxes have only entry keys (Ex. Rainbow Singlets) to the event location, money and energy.

A player is also able to be gifted gift boxes by friends, there is a chance that the gift boxes could be empty which is the main reason a lot of people prefer not to be gifted boxes however, this is also true for gifts on the map.

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 no event as it's just a wasted gift and you can send wishlist items such as assemblers or collection items.

Add List
If an active player who also gives out gifts and/or does the free once a day gift, add your player username to the list below.By adding your player name to the list, you're agreeing that it's completely okay for people to add you as a Friend via username.

*Note make sure it's exact! (Ex. Lower cases match and upper cases match if you have upper and lower cases in your player username)


 * puffinlover55 (Admin)
 * Jet Kirby (Mod)
 * amyprongs
 * thewizard11
 * Vweller
 * seemystripes
 * nanny3
 * portaweld
 * jon11235813
 * Mika
 * msmotor01
 * Zensoulfire
 * deloo
 * Dracaena
 * Motremouth
 * hotel1970
 * sam18nov
 * BAgate
 * nick
 * lifeissweet
 * sexy gma
 * ColisaS
 * Nim16
 * Nyx
 * Nimeria
 * Nicolene
 * SarahSedai
 * nyzeke
 * Heyured
 * CanadianIce
 * tamtam
 * OhmissLaura
 * nickychoi
 * ceeenter
 * Seagull
 * Mookiemo
 * suk1966
 * chevysgirl1964
 * LunaVix
 * LuceGame
 * Dirtypenny
 * Dolfeircrew
 * Detectivemom
 * otter79
 * Playcrazy
 * blablakoki
 * NickNappNeMa
 * UHCougar2
 * mar1395
 * DetectivePhilippa
 * tammyjhawk2000
 * baileywmc
 * liiveng
 * Athena Anat
 * ssri0209
 * KayceeC
 * Pea5e
 * Gonzo67
 * SaritaC
 * purpleduck35
 * SituatedShip4
 * quisper
 * SirenScream
 * ksauerl
 * Mdabacon
 * hriggio
 * imamess27
 * shannon025
 * lexcman025
 * lizziejackson
 * MsRiot
 * Tamity
 * Serraphis
 * Bunnis
 * Shelby27
 * LadyMadonna
 * mandytjie
 * Skoolafish
 * GabbyTheGrey
 * Bonemasta1969
 * KathySeib
 * HeleneViktoria
 * Nymphadora73
 * Aaletta
 * nickychoi
 * Balage1551
 * lela203
 * jenkswan
 * mcamc
 * Midnight the cat
 * rune1225
 * goldberry75
 * llama68
 * AEnima79
 * Strang9739
 * zoya117
 * zoya118
 * patty310
 * hlm29
 * Teensqueen
 * Chcochra
 * Mom13579
 * Mom2468
 * Mom36912
 * Scorpion660
 * SapphireEL
 * Ula3005
 * Pschultz5678
 * Earth Muser
 * Hyposped
 * M83B
 * Wicked
 * DAN213
 * crazywilly
 * JeweledKitsune
 * Cat Lady 8
 * Carpen63
 * Unit 4701b
 * Rhizopus
 * Laurayne
 * Cydsworld
 * Go Go Gadget
 * dreamer12345
 * Jude Gates
 * pschultz1234
 * elena11000
 * tbull8
 * Camylleon
 * Llyanyth
 * Rhaellyth
 * Ysylddha
 * dmarie

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