Buddies vs Neighbors – Are They Different, and Why?

Farm Town Secrets

Since Farm Town is by design a social game, it's not surprising that the ways you interact with other players can influence your ability to develop your farm the way you want to. Unlike a lot of other games that fall into this category, though, Farm Town offers some unique features that greatly enhance the social aspect of the gaming experience. They can make it a little confusing at first, though, and so you need to understand what you're dealing with if you're going to make the best use of the tools at your disposal. There are plenty of nuances to the way this system works, but what you really have to understand when you're getting started in Farm Town is the difference between your Neighbors and your Buddies.

The Basics

If you've played other social networking based games before, you're probably familiar with the concept of Neighbors. Your Neighbors in these games are people on your friend list who are also playing the game. You can exchange gifts with them and interact with them in other, somewhat limited ways. For instance, in Farm Town, you can visit your Neighbors' farms to water their flowers and help out with harvesting, and they can do the same for you.

A New Category

Buddies, however, are likely something you haven't come across before, but they're a great addition to this type of social networking gaming. The main difference between your Buddies and your Neighbors is that you can add other Farm Town players to your Buddy list without adding them as a friend. This allows you to bypass the sometimes tricky business of trying to determine which stranger you wan to add to your friend list.

Adding someone as a Buddy can be done anytime you're playing Farm Town simply by clicking on their avatar and selecting the option of adding them to your Buddy list. Likely the people who wind up on this list will be people who you have met in the Market or at the Inn. They'll be enthusiastic players like you – maybe someone you hired to help you harvest your crops, or even just someone who you struck up a conversation with at the Inn. Either way, adding them to your Buddy list will make it possible for you to see if they're online at any given point, and it will make it easy for you to visit your farm.

Limited Benefits

The main difference you'll find between Neighbors and Buddies is that you can exchange gifts only with your Neighbors, but Neighbors do provide some other specific benefits as well that Buddies cannot. What all of this really means is that it's good to have both Neighbors and Buddies, and certainly the groups can overlap. In fact, you'll probably wind up putting a lot of your Neighbors on your Buddy list just so that you can keep track of whether they're online or not. Just be sure to not rely solely on Buddies, as you'll wind up missing out some significant bonuses in the form of gifts and special game play options.

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