For every player, at some point in time the moment comes that you will have more neighbors than you can handle. And together with this you will receive so many gifts that it would be a day time job just opening - processing them all.

If you are motivated you might look in your inbox of requests and see a list of 100 incoming requests.

So you might think: hey… 100 more to go and I'm done. However, Facebook only shows the latest 100 requests. So you will be happy going through your gifts but when returning to the requests inbox… there will be 100 more! And 100 more after that and 100 more after that. It could take you literally forever to completely clean it (and while you are busy it  keeps filling up).

So… since most of us are doing this as a fun game only… you give your best effort to at least see who send you a neighbor request or a gift.

Another name for this post could be :

why i did not see your neighbor request or gift (message) and probably will never see them

You can follow the following schedule and then start again with 1 to clean up your request box the fastest:

1. process non FarmVille requests first

Accept or Ignore the non FarmVille requests first. In that way the "list of 100" will make room for FarmVille only stuff (well… until you begin pressing those).

2. process neighbor requests

Now you are ready to process all neighbor requests. (see here how to do that the fastest). This will free up the list. In the best possible case (if no other requests are present you will now see:)

3. ignore gifts you do not need

Most of the time you want those specific items, e.g. only "goats", so how do we get them:

press ignore on the not needed gifts - Face it: you have more gifts than you can handle and selling the ones you don't need one by one takes too much time, besides that, FarmVille will probably generate a gazillion out of sync errors while you are trying to sell these items, so you better "ignore" the white fences and stuff.

By going through the list quickly and pressing "ignore" next to the items you do not want you clear up your "100" list and get only the stuff to appear in there which you want to process in your "100" list.

Make sure press the "big" Ignore button and not the "ignore all invites from this Friend" !

4. Process the gifts you want SMARTLY

process the things you want by category - Since you can only accept 30 gifts in one bunch:

and the gift category tends to jump to the next tab after you placed 1 of them on your land (very irritating, probably the reason is that lots of clicking is one of the goals / tactics of the game), you better focus on 1 specific item at any given time.

Use the search box of your browser (CTRL-F) to type the thing you want e.g. "olive" and it will jump from olive tree to olive tree, so that you only fill your inbox with olive trees. (note that it could be that you have to slightly shift down the window with the browser slider since the requests screen of Facebook is not completely in line with how your browser thinks the content is drawn).

Now you can click 30 times "Yes" and only load your FarmVille giftbox full of olive trees. (After they are depleted you focus on another category of gifts until you get 30) (since loading FarmVille takes longer than filling the giftbox with gifts).

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So if you have enough friends you can in this way, completely fill your land with Olive Trees (or anything else), since the supply is endless.

Start Over again until FarmVille stops you

Now… you can start over with step 1,2,3 and 4. If you have many neighbors the list will probably always remain 100 so in a practical sense, there is no stopping you from doing this forever.

So in practice you will be stopped when FarmVille indicates that you cannot accept any more gifts for the day.

So you will probably have neighbors requests and other requests that are not visible for you and, if you are not able to process the hundreds of requests will probably never show up. But hey.. well.. it's just a game :)

If someone complains that they send you a (neighbor) request or a gift with a message then just forward them this post to explain them why you did not see it.