3. Network. Guess what you were a noob once also. Train people and actually become friends. We have 3 people in my static that started off as shit. We went through 5 pros because of timezone differences. You talk about some friends just not being on or enjoying the farm content that you like to farm. Well that can be fixed by putting in the effort to make some more friends. If you are farming ponies with a bunch of people chances are some one those people enjoy farming for mounts and stuff. Become friends. Then boom just like that you have 3 friends who enjoy farming the same stuff you do and you know they play around the same time because you're on together at the same time.