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Managing international friends - how many is too many?

So anyone who's publicized their trainer account is probably overwhelmed with friend requests and starting to stockpile gifts. Any strategies so far? I'm trying to juggle things so that I have a gift to send back as soon as I open a gift when egg space becomes available. It could be weeks to get to some at this rate! Any thoughts?

Asked by toytracker5 years 9 months ago
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They need to add a few QOL features to the friends list, such as a search bar and a way to sort by varying statistics. And have it load more than 10 friends at a time.

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I've got 13 friends and I don't want anymore TBH. 2 of those are out of state, 1 is in a different country and the rest are local people I raid with or hope to raid with. It already feels like too many people to juggle

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Agreed, I have 4 people I regularly play with, I'll only add a few more from the local Discord who i see semi-regularly at raids because I don't feel like managing 20+ strangers because i don't want PGO turning into Facebook

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If deleting people didn't bar future requests, I would probably delete some people who are active in our group but rarely see. (143 friends here)

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I think 10 is quite manageable, more than that might be a hard work

We can stock 5 gifts, from at least 5 poke'stops/gym (not guarantee every time you spin would get gift) that mean you must have time to spin over 20 poke'stops/gyms for the limit 20 gifts-a-day.

If your items bag full, your egg space is not vacant, your friend might not get a gift. In case of he or she already send you a gift and you can't send back, which is possible but I don't know, do this acceptable for them? If you luckily got someone nice, they would understand. But if not, well, limit your tasks for 10-must-send-a-gift-a-day might be safer strategy.

For your local friends, you can raids boss or attacks the gym together, or trade a mons' in stead of sending a gift. One activity per day is all counted. Anyway, I don't have much time after work for that, sometime it's tried to manage all of these in a day.

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You can collect over 20 gifts a day.

I find I can manage my few close int'l friends pretty well - they get first open and first reply. I can only raid so often, so the raiders I know I'll see tomorrow get next priority- want to get that attack and ball bonus asap.

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1 international friend is too many. Make friends with people you raid with.

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I think your response ignores the quite reasonable situation of people having actual friends abroad.

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Indeed! It's a nice way of staying in touch with people you played the game before moving abroad.

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Having international friends allow you to hatch eggs from far away, and if you trade those eggs it counts for the "pilot" medal ;-) (well, after they hatch!)

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