Friends

***Note:*** *This wiki is maintained by fans of the game, and is not affiliated with G5 Entertainment. If you are experiencing technical issues with the game itself, please contact customer support.*

There are benefits to having game friends.

You can ask for gifts from your friends. You can send gifts to your friends. See Gifting.
You can visit your friends and give a bonus to their locations. Your friends can visit you. See Visiting.
This page covers adding friends, removing friends, and other things related to friends. There is an "Add List" at the bottom of this page.

## How to Add Friends

You can add friends two ways; by sending friend requests to random other people and by sending friend requests to specific people.

### Sending Friend Requests to Random Other People

Open the game. Click on the clasped hands on the bottom left corner of the screen. A new screen will come up. At the bottom of the screen there's a bar, it's right where the inventory is. On that bar there's a tab called "Friends", click that then at the top there's a tab called "Other Players". It's also referred to as "Random Players List" in the game.

You can then click select all (or any number you wish to invite) then click "add friends".

This list updates every 24 hours from the last time you invited people. If you wish to refresh the list before the 24 hours is up, you can spend 10 rubies. (Ex. You invite people at 10pm, it's not till 10pm the following day that more can be invited.)

There is a more advanced way of searching for friends under "Other Players" which is by clicking Advanced Search. When clicking Advanced Search, you will have different filters that you can use to find specific friends. In order to search with these filters you have to pay rubies. It starts off with 10 rubies then adds 20 for almost any filter chosen. When selecting languages, it doesn't count towards the total price of rubies needing to be paid.

### Sending Friend Requests to Specific People

You can send a friend request to a specific person if you know their Player Login (aka username, player ID, game ID). You can do this by clicking the "G5 Friends" tab and entering their Player Login in the space provided.

There is a list at the bottom of this page with the Player Logins of people who have read this wiki and added their Player Login to the list.

### Accepting a Friend Request

Regardless of how you send your "friend request", the other player must **accept** your friend request and then you will become game friends. After you are friends with someone, you will be able to visit them, they will be able to visit you, and you can exchange gifts with them.

## How to Remove Friends

If you wish to remove friends, it's a quick and easy process.

First go to the friends list by clicking on the clasped hands on the bottom left corner of the screen. The screen with the bar on the bottom will come up. Choose the "Friends" tab on the bottom. Your friends list will then appear. If you know the nickname, you can type it in the search box in the upper left corner of the friends list screen.

When you find the friend in the list, there's an X in the upper right corner, if that is clicked then a message about removing the friend comes up along with three options.

If sure about removing the friend then select "Yes, remove"

If unsure then select "Cancel"

If this player is causing trouble and/or being abusive, then please select "Block"

**It is important to note** that a block is **FOREVER**. You cannot unblock, you cannot see who you have blocked and support can't do anything about unblocking or see who you have blocked.

## Sorting your Friends List

When looking at the friends list, you have options of how to sort your friends list or to search for a specific friend.

1. Interaction with me - This will sort your list by most recent interaction with you (Chat/Visiting/Gifting). The most recent interacting friend will be at the top.
2. Recent activity - This will sort your list by most recent activity on your friends' account. The most recently active friend will be at the top.
3. Level - This will sort your list by your friends' level, highest to lowest.
4. Alphabetize - This will sort your list by your friends' "Nicknames" in alphabetical order.

If you want to see which friends are inactive in Hidden City, then change the sorting to "Recent Activity" and start at the bottom of the list, since the friends who were inactive last would be at the bottom. Then, you can visit the friend to see if any recent event locations are unlocked.

If you click on the chat bubble then you will see the last time your friend logged into a G5 game, not the last time the friend was in Hidden City, so this may not be the most reliable form of figuring out who is inactive.

## Chat

The game has a chatting function in which you can interact with your friends. It also has settings which allows you to get notification and/or showing only friends that are online vs all friends you've chatted with, whether those friends are online or not.

In beginning of the game where you learn about different things, the game asks you to send a message to a couple of friends. The game does this so that you understand how chat works.

This is a great function to have because it allows communication between friends and tips to be shared easily in game. There is an in-game translation function, so if a friend messages a friend in their native language then the friend may click the "translate" button to understand the message.

The green dot beside a friend's nickname within the chat feature means that the friend is online. However, your friend could be online anywhere within the G5 network of games, not necessarily online in Hidden City. Also, the system can show friends as "online" for up a full hour after they've closed/logged out of the game.

G5's system is connected across all G5 games. So if you use the same account across any other G5 games, the amount of friends you have is shared across all G5 games. Your online/offline status is shared across all G5 games.

## Game Invites

Most of the time, when one of your friends installs another G5 game, G5 will then automatically send out invites to that new game to everyone in a player's friend list from Hidden City (and/or any other G5 games that they may have installed).

There is not a way to currently block these invites. You could remove the friend, but please note that in most cases the friend didn't send the invite; G5 sends the invites automatically all players.

The fastest way to get rid of the invites is by deleting them. To do this, click on the X in the upper right corner, wait a few seconds for the ad to play and then the "delete" button will become clickable. If there is more than one invite for the same game then clicking the X each of the same game invite can allow players to skip the subsequent ad all together.

The max number of G5 game invites and Hidden City invites a player can have waiting is 50. Players can still receive invites from other players wishing to be friends while the G5 game invites are at 50.

## Relation to Team Spirit Totem

Adding game friends will contribute toward raising the rank of your Team Spirit Totem. Please see that page for details.

## Add List

By adding a Player Login (Game ID or "username") to this list, you are agreeing that other players may send you a "friend request" and that you are an active player. If you no longer want to receive friend requests or if you no longer play the game, please remove your Player Login from the list.

See Finding Your Player Login if you do not know what your Player Login is.

Note: IDs are not case sensitive but it is space sensitive. Make sure that the ID is written correctly.

**If anyone sees an ID listed that is an inactive player, please comment below so one of the mods or the Admin can remove it.**

This is a Facebook group where the Wiki Admin is a moderator. You may find some new game friends here also Hidden City Hustlers

Please note that this list is for **player IDs and not nicknames**, as nicknames and Player Logins are different.

## Related Pages

* Home Page
* Hidden City Info
* Gifting
* My Profile
* Player Professions
* Reputation
* Strength
* Visiting

***Note:*** *This wiki is maintained by fans of the game, and is not affiliated with G5 Entertainment. If you are experiencing technical issues with the game itself, please contact customer support.*