Cafe World Gifts - What's So Special About Cafe World Gifts?

If you're familiar with some of the other social networking games out there, you've probably come across the practice of giving free gifts to your neighbors and receiving gifts from them. These gifts are generally items that you could buy yourself. But of course, it's always nice to get things for free. In Cafe World though, the gifts you give and receive break from this mold in several ways. They may actually be more important to your success in Cafe World than they are in any other social networking game that fits this same general mold, so don't be too quick to write them off just yet.

Unpurchaseable Merchandise
All of the items that can be gifted in Cafe World cannot be acquired any other way, and they give you a distinct advantage. These mysterious drinks actually consist of drinks, appetizers, and cookies, but when you serve them to your customers, you get extra coins for each customer in your cafe at the time they're served. For this reason, it's a big help to have a lot of gifts on hand, but to get a lot of gifts, you've got to have a lot of neighbors. Each of your neighbors will be limited on how many gifts they can send you within a certain time period, so the more neighbors you have, the more gifts you'll be able to accumulate.

Give to Receive
Of course, you can't just expect your friends to keep sending you gifts at the earliest possible opportunity on a regular basis. They need to be getting something out of the deal, and they also may just need to be reminded once in a while. That's why the best thing you can do if you want to get a lot of gifts is to give a lot of gifts. This is the easiest way to both remind your friends to send one your way and to put them in the mood to do it. And that way, you both benefit.

Don't Squander Your Gifts
The benefit you get from the gifts you receive will depend greatly on when you choose to use them. For instance, the chocolate chunk cookies will get you 5 coins per customer, but those customers have to be seated in your cafe when you use your gift for you to get the bonus for them. That means that if you use your cookies when there are only 4 customers eating in your cafe, you'll get 20 coins total from that gift. If you want until there are 10 customers seated at once, however, you'll make 50 coins off of the exact same gift.

These details make it easy to see that, not only are gifts very important to the ultimate success of your cafe, but that you actually have a lot of control over how many you receive and how much of a benefit you get out of them. It's easy to just write off things like gifts as nice bonuses to get, but aspects of the game that are of secondary importance. If you want to get ahead in Cafe World though, you'd be wise to think of gifts a little differently in this context.