Talk:Friends/@comment-76.184.225.230-20120209001206

Question about gifting gems to friends.

I have one friend that got me into DragonVale last week and we have been giving each other gems every day. However, even with power-cycling the device and force-killing the DV app, sometimes we cannot gift each other gems even though one person's 24-hour period has already passed.

My current theory is that you can only give each other gems 24 hours after the second person in the pair gifted a gem, but that can't be quite right. It wouldn't explain how someone can give gems to the same person for multiple days without receiving any back, unless there is some sort of mechanic (intended or bug) that resets the 24-hour timer between pairs after a gem is given.

To illustrate what I'm saying, I once gave a gem to my friend at 4 AM because it wouldn't let me give it to him before I needed to sleep. I felt tired that night so I slept really early. He had given me the gem at 12 AM.

The next day, I gave him a gem at 4 AM again. He was asleep and had been unable to give me one at 12 AM. He ended up giving me the gem at 8 AM.

The day after that, I could not give him the gem at 4 AM. I waited until 5 AM and was unable to do so, so I went back to sleep. When I woke up at 7 AM, I was still unable to give him the gem. I got ready and gave him the gem at 8 AM. He gave me his gem at 10 AM.

The next day, I was unable to give him the gem at 8 AM, and had to wait until 10 AM to do so...

Bug? Coincidence? Doing something wrong? I always powercycle and exit the application when I'm trying to give a gem at a time that should be correct but it is grayed out. The past two days, I actually did not have to exit the app at all, the gem timer refreshed while I was playing.

Any thoughts please? I'm confused.