Does anyone know if there’s a way to end an Acquaintance with another player other than using the "snub" option at your lodgings? My influence is almost maxed out, and I have quite a few acquaintances who I’m pretty sure aren’t still playing the game, but I’d prefer not to send Snub messages. Note that deleting a contact from the overall StoyNexus contacts list removes them as a choice when sending social invites, but as far as I can tell it does not actually end the Acquaintance or decrease Influence.
Nope; you have to snub them. My advice is to include something to the effect of ‘Doing this to make room for a friend’ in the text box if you don’t want to offend them.
I’d also recommend that you try to avoid sending Calling Cards to random people in the future; I ended up having the same problem because I was one of the idiots who filled up my influence pool at the beginning of the Calling Card rush.
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You could send them a letter or social action asking them to snub you instead. That’ll give them a fair chance if they value their Making Waves and/or Confident Smiles.
Thank you Snowskeeper and Gillsing for you excellent suggestions!
With Snubbing as the only way to end an Acquaintance, I’ve decided to send letters to Acquaintances that I suspect are no longer playing, explaining the situation and asking them if they are in fact still playing. If not, then I’ll wait a week (as indicated in the letter) before I Snub. And I’ll suggest that if they actually ARE still playing but don’t want to keep up the Acquaintance, then they should Snub me.
For what it’s worth, one person has snubbed me with the apologetic message that they wanted room for more protegés and I wasn’t offended in the slightest.