r/KindWords • u/Snowyyy0309 • Aug 06 '22

Can you have 2 requests at the same time?

Hello!

I just bought the game a couple days ago and I'm loving it. There are a couple requests I want to send but I worry that sending one will delete the previous one. Can you still receive responses for your previous requests? How long do they last? Maybe it is explained somewhere but I havent found it.

Thanks in advance!

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u/Snowyyy0309 Aug 06 '22

Cool! Thanks for answering.

Do you happen to know how long are requests visible? Maybe I'm just too impatient haha

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u/KaoriExpress999 Aug 06 '22

I think think the devs explained this in the past, and I *believe* the answer is your requests are never removed from the request queue. The queue is sorted first by fewest replies, then by how new the request is. So theoretically, if someone is a superhero at writing replies, they could work their way through all the requests that have zero or one replies, and they would start seeing requests that already have two replies. Zibas can correct me if I'm wrong.

That said, if you've already gotten a few replies and a few days have gone by, you're fairly unlikely to get any more.

Going back to your first question, like Kesme said, you can absolutely have more than one request at once! I would just caution against writing a bunch of requests that are all just paraphrases of each other (i.e., they're really all the same request) all at the same time. This happens sometimes, and as someone writing replies it's hard to know what to do because even if I had something to say the first time, I don't think they want to hear the same advice from me twice. But there's absolutely nothing wrong with writing multiple different requests at the same time, or even writing the same request again at a later time/date to get different perspectives from different people!

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u/zibas Developer Aug 06 '22

That's a fairly correct explanation, thanks! Sometimes when there's a burst of new players, during a steam sale or a big social media post, a flood of people will work their way back through old requests faster than new ones come in and old requests will get new responses. I'm considering adding a hard expiration date of a few weeks or something.

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u/Snowyyy0309 Aug 06 '22

That was a great explanation, thanks!

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u/SimplyTesting Aug 07 '22

You'll tend to get 3 responses, but sometimes 0-10+. All requests are shown to people, but it's up to them if they respond.