Originally Posted by
deadpixel
The way the game handles gift requests is somewhat clumsy and causes what I refer to as the gift pile up confusion. The gifting works roughly on a first-in-first-out system, so as a ?favor? to my neighbors, I usually ignore all their requests for maps on the days when Chapter 10 plays and only answer requests for the the Act?s item.
I?m not sure if your neighbors clear their gift request list on a daily basis, but if you had any uncleared gift request with them from the last few days, and your neighbor chooses to clear all the request at a single go, it is likely that the previous gift request would take precedence over the current; remember that you may only receive the answer to one gift request per day.
In my fully expanded accounts, I no longer make request for maps, so I never have issues with Chapter 10?s request-from-neighbors Act. In my baby and teenage accounts, I make sure to stop requesting for maps a week before Chapter 10 to avoid this happening.
Note:
There is also a glitch that seems to float around from game to game. As a player of CS, you may also have noticed this request-for-gift issues floating up from time to time in the 3-5-7 request from neighbor side quests.