Friends

Zoo 2: Animal Park allows each player to have up to 16 Friends (as long as they are not on the same internet source). Having active friends is extremely beneficial!

## Adding Friends

To add new friends, you have to either accept a friend's invitation or invite a friend who will accept your invitation.

To invite a friend you need to tap on the friends menu icon and select an available friend slot. A new window will present you with 12 available player suggestions. *An available player is a player who has at least a free friend slot or is about to have one in the next 24 hours. The suggested players are generally close in player level to you. Closing and reopening the window will refresh the player suggestions.*

To invite a specific player you need to know his or her game support ID and use the search tool. You then have to wait for your friend to accept your invitation. If you change your mind, you can at any time cancel the invitation.

If you have an open friend slot and receive an invite from another player, a notification will appear over the friends menu icon. You just have to tap on the invitation to accept or decline it.

*Note: If you have more invitations than you have available slots, you won't be able to see all of them at once. You'll have to decline an invitation in order to see the next one, NOTE: the declined invitation can't be retrieved!*

### Removing friends

 If you need to free some friend slots, you can select one of your friend and tap on the bin in his/her information panel. The slot will be locked for 24 hours before you can invite again or accept invitations.

*Player Tips/Note: While the 24 hours waiting period is understandable to avoid abuse of the in-game friend system, it can lead to some frustrating situations for players trying to invite another specific player. Indeed, the invited player might be at the beginning of the waiting period and might have received many invitations. The player who sent the invitation will frequently have to wait at least 24 hours to just get a rejection (without notification) to be able to try again. And since one of the reasons to remove friends is because they are inactive, many players that are available through the game suggestions are in fact inactive players and invitations will then just be kept on hold. That is why getting and keeping 16 active friends is quite hard to achieve and players will need to resort to other recruiting ways (social networks, forums...).*

## Friend's Zoo Details

If you tap on a friend in your list, you can see information about their zoo progress:

* Top left: The zoo titles held by your friend
* Top right: the number of Park expansions acquired inside the main zoo region
* Middle left: The number of different species placed in the main zoo region
* Middle right: The number of level 10+ animals placed in the main zoo region
* Bottom left: The number of Achievements obtained
* Bottom right: The number of placed baby animals currently growing in the main zoo region

## Helping 💕

Helping friends requires you to visit your friend's zoo. To help a friend, you have to tap on a heart in the friend list (or the heart pin above their visiting avatar in your zoo, if they have helped you). Helping a friend will grant a friendship heart point to both the player and the friend as well as XP for you. For each friend you help, you gain XP equivalent to ten times your current game level. *Example: If you are level 20, you gain 200XP for each friend you help and thus 3200XP for helping all 16 friends.*

You will have to complete one of 3 random mini-games assigned:

Note: *The quickest way to complete the task, is to tap the icon on the left of the mini-game progress bar, that will center your view over a child or crow or escaped animal automatically.*
  Catching Animals  |  | 10 animals are randomly running on the zoo pathways. You have to swipe the net over each of them.

If you need to stop a helping mini-game before completing it for any reason, simply tap the red X button on the top right corner of the screen. The game does not consider the friend helped for that day, so you can try again to "help" that friend immediately, if desired.

#### Helping Progress

To check daily help progress (resets every 24hrs on the game server), players have to look at the 2 hearts beside a friend name in the friend list: The bigger heart is for the player and the smaller one for the friend. If a heart is grey then the daily help has not been done yet, if it is pink then it has been already done today.

## Messaging friends

The game provides a private chat box with a player's friends. It can be accessed by taping on the envelope of a friend.

The messages panel will then be available and you can write your message at the bottom of the panel. The messages can be quite long (more than 500 character) but shorter messages are more easily read.

When you have a new message, you will be notified in the friend menu the same way as when you receive an invitation. In the friend window, you will know which friend messaged you by looking at the envelope.

The messages will be organized by days, with different colors: blue for you and purple for your friend.

*Note: It is not possible to delete a sent message.*

## Friendship Rewards

### Level Up Gifts

When you level up, every one of your friends will also receive the level up gift you choose. And you will receive the level up gifts from your friends.

You get to pick one puzzle piece from a random set of 3You get your Friend(s) chosen piecesNotes & Tips: You cannot tap the item icons to identify them, they are selected immediately. Here are some player strategy suggestions: For most valuable pieces, some things to consider:

* 1. Yellow Border (best for ticket exchange value, even if coin item)
	2. Purple Border
	3. Blue Border
	4. Known diamond-cost Enclosure equipment, irregardless of border color (specifically jungle and savanna troughs (green), jungle play structures (blue))
	5. Quest-required item (the BBQ place in the example above)

### Friend Chests

Each time you help a friend or you are helped by a friend, you will get a friendship point. For every 10 points, you will be rewarded with a Friendship Chest. These chests contain puzzle pieces for decorations, Enclosures and enclosure items, and exclusive friendship animals. If your friends help you out and you collect 10 points, you will also see a notification on the friends menu icon indicating there is a friendship chest available to open.

**Tip:** The maximum number of friendship points a player can get per day is 32 with 16 active friends (3 chests per day). The maximum number of saved chests the game will allow is 5, so be sure to open them daily. Once you exceed 5, the game will not give you any more to open until you have fewer than 5 friendship chests in your queue to open.