In fairness, this regularly happens. It's a common problem so why we're still at the "contact support and tell them what you've done" phase, I don't know. We should be at the "King fixes their game" phase. I've lost all my tools and awards multiple times. Every time I start building them back up, I open the game and…
So clearly this "test" is a cash grab. They've put the time up on lives so people will be more likely to buy gold bars or ask friends for lives and spread the game further. Whereas it used to take 25 minutes to completely refill, it's now between an hour and 15 minutes and 2 hours and 30 minutes. Either is unacceptable…