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1. Create a block at the top of Messages Wall page for player to post part requests, if they are going to be out a few days or whatever they feel to post. This box would stay at the top of Messages for all to see.
2. Gift Section - add tabs, dividing gifts into groups and sort the gifts accordingly. Then a player doesn't have to spend so much time scrolling through just to send one item at the end of the list. Tabs can be marked - Nuts, Bolts, Tools, Food and so on. Please don't try to tell me this cannot be done!
3. Again, tabs dividing gifts so that they can be easily found. Also, ability to dump excessive gifts. Otherwise, create goals that will reuse older gifts on new appliances.
4. Fix the goals! Simply put, stop making them so impossible to complete. Go back to a single goal 15 days long, without so many dishes to make. Then do a 5 day goal after the 15 day goal. Stop doing goals in goals, no one and I mean no one is enjoying the game any more. People are quiting playing or refusing to do goals, the ones that are trying to stick it out are losing neighbors. No one wants to play this game any more.
I am not a programmer but I suspect that none of these suggestions are impossible. For whatever reason, you as a game provider are just refusing to make the game worth playing. Stop pushing your luck and get things fixed where more can enjoy the game. Attempting to force people to spend money to play a game doesn't work out well, especially in this time of so many expense challenges.