Talk:Friends/@comment-207.38.215.11-20121005154729/@comment-198.228.217.143-20121005185435

The Dragonsai Gifting Tree allows you to send a total of 6 friends 1 gem per day. The gens are never yours, so you don't lose gems if you send one or fail to send one. In fact, if one day you decide to send gems to 4 our of 6 of your friends, those other two gems are "lost".

The best way to judge whether spending 100 gems on the tree will benefit you more than cost you is if you have more than 3 friends that will consistently give you a gem every day. For instance, if you gain 1 extra, consistent friend, the gems you used to pay for the tree will be paid back to you in 100 days. If 2 extra, 50 days, and if 3, 34 days.

As for in-game services, I occasionally do pay for gems. Usually spend $10/mo. And use them towards speed-breeding very limited dragons, like Equinox, Paper, and Blue Moon. So people do but gems. I can't see dumping $100 into gems but after 10 months I guess I have already.

Hope this helps :)