Why Theta's Don't Return Gifts

Here are some rules about gifts you may or may not have known:

If you have 10 characters, you can collect a total of 500 gifts per day ~ Sweet!
 * You may collect 50 gifts per day PER Character

That means for every 50 gifts you accept (assuming you have ten characters) you can send 3.5 per character in return. What a jip!
 * You may only send around 35 gifts per day - total.

This last rule is recent...and it sucks.
 * Only your friends can collect gifts from you

That is a long time! But this is a good thing!
 * Gift links have a 13 day life - you can wait up to 13 days before you collect it.

This means instead of that one gift being collected by only one person - your entire house can click on that one link and everyone can collect it!
 * If you find a way to get the URL for gifts you have sent you can share them with your house!

This means by sending individual gifts to individual people - hundreds of your other sisters/misters don't get anything. *Sad Face*
 * Most people have hundreds of people in their houses

We're organized, we're overly fond of SL and we play to the point of being called 'addicts'.
 * I'm the Theta House Mom

Now, an explanation of why I don't click 'Return Gift'.

In Theta, we only click 'return gift' to fellow Thetas because we know FOR a FACT that the Theta that receives that gift will post the URL for us. This doesn't mean the Theta will even get to USE the link since we can't always collect all of them, but by posting the URL, lots of other people will benefit.

I then share a link on the feed for all the friends I have on Facebook to collect any and all gifts I have ever sent that are still able to be collected.

Sometimes people click 'Return Gift' when they collect gift items from me. I see this as a 'Thank you! Please post more~' but I don't click 'Return Gift'.

Why? If I click 'Return Gift' what is my gaurantee that you will post the URL? I'm not trying to say that there are not people that would, I'm just saying that I KNOW the Thetas will post it 100% for sure.

Now you are saying 'But it is just one gift, why not press 'Return Gift'?' Let's first look at how many friends I have that play SL - over 800+ - and then let's look at if clicked 'return favor' instead of sending a link to a Theta who then posts it for me.

On the one hand - one person gets a gift. *Hurray* I'm sure they really appreciated it and kept on trucking collecting more. 799+ other friends got nothing.

Let's say I don't press 'Return Gift'. Let's say I send the gift to a Theta. Just one gift link gets posted because in this example I am only sending one gift.

I post this one gift link to the feed and see what happens - Did you know that now 800+ people can collect that ONE gift? It's the equivalent of pressing 'Send One to EVERYONE' and gets around the rule about only sending 35 gifts. Now rinse and repeat - I can send one of each type of gift.

If I collect and post 35 gift links - and every person in my house collects each link, that means 28,000 gifts were collected from my 35 gift links. Everyone is happy! Hurray!

I've never heard anyone complain that I haven't clicked 'Return Gift' and everyone has expressed their gratitude. I just like for people to see the logic behind stuff. So this is my logic - this is why I post gift link lists instead of sending individual gifts.

Having said that - I hope you see the importance as well. Want to try it out? See if you can get one friend to copy URLs for you and send them back. You will get LOTS of that kind of gift sent to you when people click 'Return Gift' if you ask nicely and your house will be SO happy with you.

Of course, sometimes we just don't have that much time to dedicate to a game. And it's understandable. But now perhaps you knew something you didn't, learned something, maybe you will be able to explain it to your friends, etc.

Just felt like writing this up - because I like my house and I think sharing gift link lists are the best way for me to give gifts to my ENTIRE house without that pesky 'You have reached the limit for how many gifts you can send' notice that makes me sad about people not getting gifts.
 * D Hope everyone is having a great day.


 * Muah*

Aurora Theta House Mom