Social

In an attempt to make sense of the social aspects of Love and Dragons we will review them in the order of the buttons within the game. If you tap the Friends, Gifts, or Wall buttons from the main window you are presented with the respective window that has the same set of buttons along the bottom. Those buttons are Friends, Add Friend, Invitations, Gifts, and Wall. Let's begin by reviewing each of the main screen buttons and the sub screen buttons.

Friends
Friends will help you succeed by tipping your locations, becoming helpers in your village, and giving you gifts. You in turn can do the same for your friends.

'My friends' window
From here you can delete and visit your friends. You can use the Search Neighbors at the top to find a particular friend to visit or delete.
 * 1) From the main screen tap the Friends button
 * 2) Tap the Friends button on the next window

Everyone has a different philosophy regarding friends. Some only want 50 so that they can send a gift to all their friends each day. Some have a core 50 and extra's they send wall requests to.

'Invite Friends' window

 * 1) From the main screen tap the Friends button
 * 2) You can then invite friends via Facebook, GameCenter, Add Friends by ID, and Free invitations!
 * Free invitations updates every 8 hours and are just random players some that are still active and some that are not. It is a good way to get started, you can always delete the inactive players later.
 * Add Friends by ID - use this if you know someone's game ID
 * 1) Wait for your invitation to be accepted. Once accepted you will see a number in the top right corner of the Friends button on the main screen.  You can tap it then tap the Friends button again and your new friend will be at the top of your Friends list with a yellow back ground indicating new (kind of like unread mail displays bold in must email readers).

The Add Friend button will also go to the Invite Friends window.

'Invitations' window
The Invitations window is divided into Incoming and Sent. You can view, accept incoming, and delete incoming or sent invitations. For example if you sent an invitation over a week ago and they still haven't accepted this is a good indication that they are not an active player and you might want to delete the invitation.
 * 1) From the main screen tap the Friends button
 * 2) Tap the Invitations button

Gifts
You can give friends tools (Gifts) and collection items.
 * Gifts
 * Tools needed to deliver collections or open locations
 * They are free to give
 * You can give one per friend per day up to a total limit of 50
 * Collection items
 * Cost to give, they are transferred from your collection to your friends collection.
 * You can give one collection item per friend per day up to a total of 10.

The Gifts window has three tabs along the top;
 * My Gifts
 * List of received gifts.
 * From here you can Collect & Give Thanks
 * When you Give Thanks for a gift or collection item it will send your friend a Mystery Gift
 * Mystery Gifts you receive will go to your inventory. You need to go there to open and use them.
 * You can also Visit the friend that gave you a gift
 * You must collect gifts to move them to your inventory
 * Choose a Gift
 * List of giftable tools
 * List changes periodically
 * You can give items not on the list if a friend sends you a request for the item or if that item is on your friends wish list and you visit and gift from their wish list.
 * At the bottom you will see your current count of gifts sent and limit. This automatically resets daily or you can spend diamonds to reset (not recommended).
 * Send a collection as a gift
 * Lists all the items in your Collections and the count of each.
 * Giving a collection item to your friend will remove it from your collection and move it into theirs.
 * At the bottom you will see your current count of collections sent and limit. This automatically resets daily or you can spend diamonds to reset (not recommended).

Wall
Use the Wall to communicate with your friends by leaving messages for them on their wall and vice versa. Also gift requests from your friends will display on your wall.

Using the wall is fairly easy simply select the wall button. You can access your wall when you are home and reply to friends posts there or you can visit a friend and access their wall and leave a post for them.

Now let's discuss some of the social aspects.

Reputation Level vs. Experience Level

 * You have two difference overall game levels; Experience level and Reputation level.
 * The experience and reputation levels of your friends display as number in the top left and right of their icons respectively.
 * Experience level - increases as you play scenes, banish roamers, and complete quests.
 * Reputation level - increases as you help friends by tipping their locations.
 * The greater each level the greater your energy or strength max limit.
 * Experience and Reputation have unique energy/strength levels.
 * Experience is energy points and shown on your main screen when you are home.
 * Reputation is strength points and shown on the main screen when you visit your friends.
 * Energy and strength restores at a rate of 1 point per 3 minutes.
 * If current Reputation level is 11 then max strength limit is 130. So it would take 390 minutes or 3.25 hrs for reputation power to restore from 0 to 130 without the use of amulets.
 * Time to restore can be shortened by using amulets.
 * Energy and strength can be restored by using rewards or purchase items in the Shop.
 * Both energy and strength are sold in the Energy section of inventory and the shop. Read the description carefully to purchase or use the correct item.
 * Energy restores to full + 10 points added to the max limit when you level up your experience level.
 * Strength restores to full + 10 points added to the max limit when you level up your reputation level.
 * 10 strength points are required to give one tip.
 * Gifting doesn't count toward your reputation limits.

For example: If I currently have 67 reputation strength points, then I can tip 6 locations. If I go to a friend and the life saver (individual friend limit) indicates I have 1 left but that friends envelopes are already down because I have already tipped all five locations they have open. So I can't tip that friend anymore until they reset even though the friend limit is still 1. So I will likely go to the next friend instead and tip them.

Visit Friends
You need to visit a friend to leave them tips, see their wish list, or read their wall. If you friend didn't send you a gift request (displays on your wall), then it is preferable to gift your friends by visiting them so you can see their wish list and gift them something they need.

 As a bonus you will receive rewards for visiting friends every day. The number of rewards you receive will increase as your reputation increases. The reward changes but usually consists of 50 XP, 100 gold, and an item.

How to visit a friend

 * 1) Select the Friends button on your main screen
 * 2) Select the Friends button on the Invite Friends screen
 * 3) Select the Visit button for the friend you would like to visit.
 * 4) You can then go to the next or previous friend by selecting the respective icon in the bottom right (next friend) or bottom left (previous friend).

When you visit a friend you will see their village and your reputation information. Note: In the picture above I do not currently have enough strength to give another tip. I have already given this friend 3 tips and can give three more when my energy restores. Also as soon as I give 26 more tips my reputation level will increase to 12 with max strength limit of 140. For more information of what all that means, read on.

What is Tipping
When you select the envelope above your friends locations and the envelope lowers and a red heart appears this is referred to as tipping. Tipping a friends location will assist them the next time they search that location.

The assist is based on your profession and level in the game. Higher level = higher % increase.
 * Merchant = % increase in gold earned
 * Hunter = % increase in experience (XP) earned
 * Gambler = % increase to finding collection items

Tipping Limits
There are three factors that will effect how much you can tip.
 * 1) Your current reputation level and associated strength
 * 2) The limit per friend (shown in life saver)
 * 3) The life saver is unique per friend per day.
 * 4) The limit will increase as you increase your reputation level in the game.
 * 5) It appears that the limit per friend resets at different times for different friends. Perhaps based on when that friend was added or last tipped.
 * 6) The number of open locations a friend has and if they played the location to clear your tip.

Unless you discover a secret I don't know you will not be able to give all friends full tips each day. Here is the strategy I use. I start by giving as many friends as I can one tip, when my reputation strength restores I give the remaining friends one tip until all friends receive at least one tip. When strength restores again, I give a second tip so by the end of the day each friend will have received 2-3 tips from me. Sometimes I can do more.

How to Tip

 * 1) Visit friend
 * 2) Tap location with an envelop fully visible.

How to Gift
There are several ways to send gifts via;
 * Respond to wall requests
 * visit friend and gift from their wish list
 * visit friend and gift from the gift screen
 * 

It is a good strategy to gift all friends around the same time every day. First respond to all wall requests then, time permitting, visit the remaining friends and give gifts via their wish list. This way your friends will get the gift they requested or need most. If time doesn't permit then blind gift to remaining friends up to your gift limit.

Gifting via Wall Requests
When a friend Asks for an item it will display on your wall. With a message of "I need this item to unlock a new location! I'd really appreciate it if you could send me one right away!" or "I'm in a hurry to collect come tools I need. Do you think you could send me a gift?"

Keep in mind that you need be reach various XP levels to send gifts. If you have not reached the XP level to send the requested item then a banner will be across the item with the level needed. In this case you can unlock the ability to send that gift by spending diamonds or delete the wall request. It is a good idea to reply to the friend before deleting the request so they understand why you didn't send it. You can also visit the friend and send them something else from their wish list.

Some people work together to unlock certain high level items when they first start playing to help each other move forward in the game.

Gifting via the Wish List
The best way to ensure your friend receives the gift they most need is to respond to all your wall requests around the same time each day then visit your friends and gift from their wish list.

Your friends wish list contains the items that they currently need. It can contain up to 5 items including tools to deliver collections, collection items, and tools to open a location.

To give an item on your friends wish list simply visit them and then select the item. Here are some things to keep in mind.
 * The friend pictured above has 5 items on their wish list, so it is currently full.
 * You need to have at least one item to be able to give it. This is true for collection items and tools.
 * The first four items on my friends wish list have gift boxes indicating that I could give those items. The last item does not because I do not have that item to give.
 * Collection items contain a small number in the bottom right corner. This number indicates how many of that item you have in inventory.
 * The first item is a collection item and I only have one of that collection item.
 * REMINDER: If you give a collection item it is taken from your inventory and given to your friend.
 * I will not likely give up my only collection item to my friend. However, if I had 6 or more of that item I would gladly give one to my friend.
 * The next three items on the friends wish list are tools needed to deliver collections. Tools do not display the number in the bottom right corner.
 * I may or may not have a high enough level to gift them but can find out by selecting them. The dialog box I see when doing this will let me know. Pay close attention to the message in the dialog box displayed. Here are examples of dialog boxes you may see.



Blind Gifting
It is called Blind Gifting because you are blindly sending something you think they may need. Some people will delete friends for consistently blind gifting rather than gifting from wall requests or wish list. However, in a time pinch it is a good way to use up your daily limit and at least send them something.
 * 1) From your main home sceen tap the Gifts button
 * 2) Select the Choose a Gift tab
 * 3) Select a tool from the list on the left
 * 4) Select one of more friends (up to you gift limit) from the list on the right
 * 5) Tap Send Gift

Helpers
The friends you add will become helpers in your village. They will wander around the village with the roamers and you can tap on them and take them along when exploring a location to gain assistance.
 * You can only use each helper once every 24 hours
 * The assist is in addition to any tips another friend may have left you.
 * The type of assist is based on the helpers profession.
 * Merchant = % increase in gold earned
 * Hunter = % increase in experience (XP) earned
 * Gambler = % increase to finding collection items
 * The percent (%) is based on the helpers experience level

How to get Helpers
In order to gain a helper you will need to add friends then rescue the friend when prompted.

How to Rescue a Friend
When you see an exclamation mark above a location this is an indication that one of your friends is in need of rescue. Successfully explore that location to rescue your friend and they will then become a helper in your village.

The friends that become your helper are random and will change occasionally and you will need to rescue new friends or sometimes the same friend becomes trapped again and you have to rescue them again. I noticed that several of my friends will disappear at the same time and I have to rescue several in a row, one at a time.