The more neighbors you have, the more time everything takes... tricky balance to achieve - just how many neighbors can you keep up with? At first, you can't do much without neighbors and active playing time is quite restricted. At this stage, just ferting and feeding the chickens on my neighbors' farms is taking over 30 minutes. Then there's accepting and sending gifts. Accepting and sending from the individual gifts is quite time-consuming and takes way too many clicks. Just sending a gift en masse at least lets you communicate to your neighbors that you're an active player, even if you can't always take the time to customize the gifts you send. What a dilemma.
Must say that the game continues to be an excellent substitute for online shopping. Occasionally, I find myself wanting to browse at some of my favorite haunts, but if I first go to FV and busy myself with all the possible tasks, by the time I'm done, I just want to get off the computer.
Twice, I've had FV neighbors reach out to chat. One is a young boy, who simply demands items for his farm. Fair enough. The other is a recently disabled man, who obviously wants more of a connection with his neighbors in FV. I'm deeply conflicted, as I started playing the game as my alter ego, and continue to.
