Rule of 40

 I had a rule of 40 ~ that is, I would not limit the number of neighbors to 40. Had to add those neighbors as Facebook friends, and I had more game friends than real family/friends. Those Farm Town cheaters pestered Slashkey developers to increase limit on number of neighbors we were allowed. Perhaps the limit had been 100. 

How could one keep up with that many neighbors? They did not. The ones that had to most neighbors never helped with speeding up production, or selling more products. They posted daily, sometimes twice, asking us to help them. At first, I helped all of my neighbors. Then stopped helping those high level players who never reciprocated. Many did not send gifts or requests for ingredients to help those who requested it.

I increased the number of FT neighbors ~ maybe worked my way up to 60, trying to find people who would give help for help given them. Plus to increase the number of gifts. Some needed items, like an Olive tree are available only as gifts.After a while, I started removing the high level neighbors who had lots of neighbors, stacked, layered farms, that did not help me at all.

Then I quit.