I get more requests for life's than I get life's. So in other words, in my experience, people tend to ask for more extra life's than they give them. For example, I often make requests from 'friends'. So when I see say 15 messages, seldom are more than 3 of those that are giving me extra lives. They're actually requests from others. I hit 'select all' so I can send lives to everyone making the request because I think that's what it should he about. But I'm getting to that place where I don't want to send any because they're not being sent back. And honestly, that sucks!! My phone for whatever reason won't let me buy lives (and yes I've gone into all my setting to try & fix it to no avail) so I rely on my friends helping me out but THEY DON'T!!
So to combat this extreme imbalance, I think every request for a life should automatically send a life to everyone who a life was requested from. It would even up the playing field. Because truly, it's ruining the game for me. Why should I send out 25-40 request to others for the only 3 lives I get in return?? Or even, when you log into your game, before you can play, you should first have to 'reply all' to your friends' requests for lives before playing. Otherwise too, what's the point of having friends in the game??
You only get 1 life every 30mins. I paid extra once upon a time for 8 lives. So that's a new game every 4hrs w/ a full set of lives. So to continue playing before then, you need the extra lives friends send.
Like I said, it's a real injustice between the games players. Especially those requesting lives but never returning them. If I could send friends messages, I'd tell them I'm not sending anymore until the first send them since they've never answered a request but contine to make the request.