I would make one portal in Tokyo or some busy city and other in another busy city and i will sell tickets to ride between the two. Or i will put them on some sheet of something that i can move so i can change destinations but in game if i move the surface under portal it will dissapear
I think it might be an instagram thing where people just want to have lot of connections so they look popular so they make an tinder account to farm more people and that thing with exchanging few messages might just be for convincing you that the person you are writing to is real human not void or bot or nowadays ai so you dont unfollow that is my theory but i dont have anything to back it
For me it is the games with lot of sequels like assassins creed or those sport games i dont think it is necessary bad game. For me the fastfood tastes like ok not the best not worst so nothing surprises me i will get what i expect same it is for me with assassins creed i like those games and i know what to expect from them really a comfort game for me.