Lovejoy444
10-16-2009, 05:16 PM
I have the same problem in both Castle Age and Vampire Wars: When I'm trying to give gifts to my army members, not everybody shows up in my friends lists. Sometimes my army members don't show up in the GAME Friends list, but they DO show up in my "All Friends" list, so I'm still able to send them a gift (though it's a drag having to go through the process twice, and I definitely won't be able to continue doing that once I have a ton of army members). But often my army members don't show up in EITHER list, and yet they ARE in my army when I go to the "view army" page.
Also, different people are missing on any given day. It's not always the same people missing, and not from the same lists. Some days army member Joe Shmo is listed and sometimes he's not. Sometimes he's on the ALL FRIENDS list, but not the GAME FRIENDS list, and vise versa.
On a related note, I also have the problem of adding gamers to my Facebook friends so that we can add each other to our armies, but then when I log into CA to INVITE them to join my army, they're not on the list of people I can send invites to (nor are they showing as already being army members). I thought perhaps I'm not allowing enough time to pass between confirming them as a FB friend and having them show up in my CA lists, but for some people, it's been DAYS since they became my FB friend, and they're STILL not in my invite list.
What's up with all this? It's driving me nuts. My personal friends know that I would never diss them by not sending gifts regularly, but when I'm recruiting strangers to build my army, I don't want them to think I'm a slacker because then they might return the favor by not gifting ME!
Note: This is NOT an issue of inadvertently trying to gift twice within a 24-hour period. I gift once per day, so if I try to gift again too early, EVERYONE on the list should be affected, not just certain people in certain instances. It is also NOT an issue of sending an invite to someone I have already invited (who just hasn't accepted the invitation yet), and thus they're not showing up as potential invitees.
Any advice? Should I report this somewhere in the forum as a bug?
Thanks all!
Update: I checked out a few threads before posting this to see whether my issues had been dealt with previously. I found what is possibly a partial answer: Someone said that friends may not/will not(?) show up in a gift-giving list if they haven't yet accepted the last gift you sent them. I don't really have any way of knowing whether or not this is the case without contacting each one of them individually.
I play two Zynga games, Farm Ville and Vampire Wars, in addition to Castle Age (not a Zynga game). In Farm Ville I have no gift-giving/friends list problems whatsoever. I can send the same people gifts day after day whether they've collected the previous gifts or not (as long as 24 hours have passed). Given almost identical formats between Farm Ville and Vampire Wars, I would think I'd be able to send gifts day after day in VW too, whether or not previous gifts have been collected yet. Although Castle Age is not a Zynga game I would think the whole gift-giving process among these types of apps would be similar. Just thought I'd throw this possible answer into the mix to see what anyone thought/knew.
Also, different people are missing on any given day. It's not always the same people missing, and not from the same lists. Some days army member Joe Shmo is listed and sometimes he's not. Sometimes he's on the ALL FRIENDS list, but not the GAME FRIENDS list, and vise versa.
On a related note, I also have the problem of adding gamers to my Facebook friends so that we can add each other to our armies, but then when I log into CA to INVITE them to join my army, they're not on the list of people I can send invites to (nor are they showing as already being army members). I thought perhaps I'm not allowing enough time to pass between confirming them as a FB friend and having them show up in my CA lists, but for some people, it's been DAYS since they became my FB friend, and they're STILL not in my invite list.
What's up with all this? It's driving me nuts. My personal friends know that I would never diss them by not sending gifts regularly, but when I'm recruiting strangers to build my army, I don't want them to think I'm a slacker because then they might return the favor by not gifting ME!
Note: This is NOT an issue of inadvertently trying to gift twice within a 24-hour period. I gift once per day, so if I try to gift again too early, EVERYONE on the list should be affected, not just certain people in certain instances. It is also NOT an issue of sending an invite to someone I have already invited (who just hasn't accepted the invitation yet), and thus they're not showing up as potential invitees.
Any advice? Should I report this somewhere in the forum as a bug?
Thanks all!
Update: I checked out a few threads before posting this to see whether my issues had been dealt with previously. I found what is possibly a partial answer: Someone said that friends may not/will not(?) show up in a gift-giving list if they haven't yet accepted the last gift you sent them. I don't really have any way of knowing whether or not this is the case without contacting each one of them individually.
I play two Zynga games, Farm Ville and Vampire Wars, in addition to Castle Age (not a Zynga game). In Farm Ville I have no gift-giving/friends list problems whatsoever. I can send the same people gifts day after day whether they've collected the previous gifts or not (as long as 24 hours have passed). Given almost identical formats between Farm Ville and Vampire Wars, I would think I'd be able to send gifts day after day in VW too, whether or not previous gifts have been collected yet. Although Castle Age is not a Zynga game I would think the whole gift-giving process among these types of apps would be similar. Just thought I'd throw this possible answer into the mix to see what anyone thought/knew.