Friends

Where

In the top bar, beside the envelope, there is a two people mark. The green number beside it counts your friends in the game; the red one counts requests waiting for your answer. Tap the mark to open a panel with three tabs: Friends, Requests and Invite. When a request is waiting for your answer, the panel opens on Requests.

The list says of each friend whether they are in the game; a friend on holiday reads on holiday. The envelope button opens your conversation with them, and the cross removes them from your list, after asking once more.

Adding a friend

A friendship is mutual: you send a request, and when they accept, you each join the other's list. Until then, neither of you can see whether the other is in the game.

There are two ways to send a request: type the player's name in the box on the Requests tab, or click a city on the island and tap the friend mark beside its owner. When a request reaches you, a line appears under Activity, and when yours is accepted the sender is told. If you both send each other a request, the friendship is made at once.

Every world is its own

Your friend list belongs to the world you are playing. In another world you become friends again from the start; a friend in one world does not learn whether you play in other worlds, or under what name.

Calling a friend into the game

On the panel's Invite tab there is an invitation link of your own; copy it and share it anywhere you like. You can also type your friend's e-mail address and have the game send the invitation; we use the address only for that letter and do not keep it. The e-mail invitations you can send each day are limited, the same address is not sent a second invitation soon after, and an address that asked not to be invited again is not written to again.

When a friend who came through your link creates an account and joins your world, their first city is founded on your island, or on the nearest island with room if yours is full; you each join the other's friend list at once, and a line appears under Activity. The same happens for somebody who already has an account and opens your link before joining that world for the first time.

Declining, removing, blocking

If you decline a request, the sender is not told so in as many words; the request leaves their list, and they cannot send you another for a while. You can take back a request you sent before it is answered.

When you remove a friend, you leave each other's lists. If you block a player from your messages, your friendship and any request between you end too; while the block lasts, neither of you can send the other a request.

The list and the requests waiting have an upper limit.