Originally Posted by ags_rule:
“How does that system even work?
I only visit friends houses during events. The amount of money/XP that comes from a standard visit seems so utterly pointless, and I was pretty sure it made no difference which building you 'shook hands' on.”
To be honest, I'm still figuring it all out myself, even started a couple of feeder towns to try and work it out. I'll try and explain as best I can, but be aware I'm still figuring it all out so I could be wrong in some areas. It's also unknown whether this is a feature or a bug (and there can be bugs within the feature or bug). Either way, it could be removed by the developers at any point, but has continued the past couple of months and through a couple of updates (apparently, I'm fairly new to the game, only started playing on xmas day when i got a new phone haha). So here goes...
In normal circumstances, neighbours can give and receive. To give the building has to be ready, the giver (visiter) taps and gets a bonus (they can either vandalise or restart the counter for the receiver, so when the receiver taps, they don't start from the beginning). This can only be done once per visit. During events, the giver can get items too, like gift cards.
Except now there seems to be a feature (or bug) where certain buildings can be stacked. So if three different givers click once on a building, the receiver gets three handshakes to click on that same building. It only works on four buildings, but the best part is that those builders can offer some mega money and XP. The four buildings are Squidport tiles, cletus farm, channel 6, open air stage.
But it's complicated. The best for both parties are the squidport tiles (after the first ten or so tiles built by the receiver), as that gives big XP amounts to both giver and receiver. The farm can also be stacked, but only gives big amounts to the receiver (some are even farming 90 day corn, for this very reason), not the visiter. Same for channel 6 and stage, clicking on these gives nothing more than the usual amount for the giver, but the receiver will receive stacked handshakes for multiple taps.
And it gets even more complicated, as I am unsure how many can be stacked and the exact procedure to be able to get bigger stacks of handshakes. For instance, the first handshake you receive won't give anything special, you need to leave it there, and only click the second, third, fourth etc when they come. Growing 90 day corn could be pointless too, as the devs might have fixed this "feature" in that time (plus it's a long time, who knows if you'll even be playing the game in 3 months)
tl;dr - click on neighbours' squidport tiles for big amounts of xp (and have a floating tile ready for your visiters), but clicking on their farm/channel 6/stage will help them too, but won't give the visiter any bonus like the tiles (obviously the neighbours with 90d corn will want the farm clicking instead of tiles, you as the giver get no bonus, but might give the neighbour the incentive to click your 90d corn farm...)
It's being talked about on other forums, quite a bit of info out there if you want to look into it further. Going back to my quoted post though, I will be removing neighbours who don't click regularly, or on my tiles/farm (when they are fully up and running), it's nothing personal, but there's no room for passengers anymore.