Is this common?

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Send me some and let's see if this thought process is consistent. 

You have the wrong players in your friend list. I should be there.

To be honest im not really one for sending christmas gifts. I do it a bit sometimes but not that often. Everyday is kind of christmas to me i like to be nice all year round and help my friends all the time.

A lot of your friends will think well of you but many will just consider you as a contact. No real friendship there is there?

You will know if your friends are your true friends if they contact you regulary throughout the year. Not just at christmas. Many of your friends arent really friends, they are just distant well wishers or contacts within the game, allies. There is no real true friendship there.

It is nice having close friends but it is not that easy to make them. You have to reach out.

There is a difference between a friend and ally. They are 2 different things. Having both is good. It is nice having friends but not important. Allies may not respond at all if you send them a christmas gift, but they will be there for you in other ways.

A true friend will respond. Either with a christmas gift or a mail/chat.

A important side note. A lot of players who play this game ARE NOT into the social aspect at all. They rarely post on the forums, they rarely mail anyone. But they are here playing the game, every single day. Some of them in great magnificent factions. They just arent sociable, they dont want to get involved in it. The unsociable will probably do nothing if you send them a gift.

It is very nice to have true friends, but at the end of the day we are playing a game. You can have the best friend in the game, but if he isnt good at playing games he is just that a friend .... He cant actually do anything meaningful in the game ...

Friendship is nice and keeps many people playing. But dont stress out if you havent got any close friends.

I could change that.

I've done the same , kinda as a test sent a total of 30 gifts and received 1 back and 6 thanks.

You sent 2x Can of X-MASS to Samoiedskaya with the message: Merry Christmas!

 

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Sent. You ignored it too.

Sam. Dont stress out about stuff like this. Read that gigantic essay i wrote further up, that really is the situation.

Having true friends is great! But a large proportion of people who play this game dont want to make any friends.

It is a number crunching exercise for them or they are just playing the game and NOTHING else. No friendship at all, just game playing. Dont take anything to heart when playing the game. At the end of the day we all play the game in a different way. A lot of players are anti social. They arent nasty they just dont get the friendship thing.

Maybe they accidentally deleted the event? Could be they're just sitting around wondering where that e-can in their inventory came from.

Wise words from Mother Theresa:

            People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.  Forgive them anyway.

            If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.  Be kind anyway.

            If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

           If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.  Be honest and sincere anyway.

            What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.  Create anyway.

            If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.  Be happy anyway.

            The good you do today, will often be forgotten.  Do good anyway.

         Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.  Give your best anyway.

         In the final analysis, it is between you and God.  It was never between you and them anyway

 Ahhh... That was you? 

I have a theory for why people don't reply to you. 

I do jail busts and players sent me thanks etc plus with other events it can get rather clogged so things gets missed. 

Plus half the time I'm not sure what I'm being yelled at/thanked for! 

So, thank you! And have a Merry Christmas samoiedskaya! 

Tell me something, did those people contact you and said oh hey bro give us free christmas stuff, hell no. So stop boasting about something we dont even know you did in the first place.

The Christmas spirit is being generous and doing good for people and not asking for anything return. It'll be bad manners not thanking someone who sent you a gift. But expecting something in return for something you freely gave is bad manners too. You won't get to heaven with that thought of generosity.

Aha PIIIWITGI. of course

That is actually how my mind read it too, glad I'm not alone here [:love_chemistry:]

Mother Theresa really had bars. The goat

The less people contact me the happier I am.

I have always said my bestest of friends are those who contact me once every couple of years.

Original Poster, bounty those who say thank you.

 

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I only sent a few gifts this year. Most of the people responded in some way. 2 didn't. I assume that is either because they have not been online or because they simply didn't notice it. If you are sure that's not what happened with your friends too then you might want to consider who you put on your friendslist.

maybe they are not Christians? lol