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I still made a definite effort to raise people's friendship levels right out of the gate (once I had access to the appropriate items, at least), if only because I've had such an established history of min/maxing from other farming sims where you kinda have to metagame it to get anywhere in a non-painful amount of time. Really, I don't have a problem with that, because I like min/maxing games like that (I taught myself how to use VLOOKUP to create an Excel tool that would help me get the best bonuses out of RF4's crafting system, and I also used Excel to map out my Stardew farm so I could optimize sprinkler and Junimo Hut placements for maximum coverage), but I still appreciated having a bit more flexibility. Even approaching it with a metagaming mentality, being forced to pace my gift-giving (without making my progress unsatisfyingly slow, which is always a risk with forced pacing) made it feel more organic, which was really nice.