Board Thread:Welcome Board/@comment-25030726-20140607132813/@comment-25030726-20141009132308

Welcome, Abraeq! My nephew's city was not well-optimized. My wife and her mother had not realized the power of the various crystals. So, there were a few build and just kind of scattered around his islands for decoration. I moved the crystals and habitats around, moved dragons to habitats with larger gold caps whenever possible, and got them to start logging in more frequently to collect gold.

When you're logging in using a mobile device (iPad, phone, whatever), you can either log in using your Facebook ID OR you can click "no thanks", which will start a game that is not associated with a Facebook account. If you switch between them, they will overwrite each other. So, while it will prompt you to log in using Facebook every time, just click "No thanks" and it will take you to your game already in progress. There should be a way to find the ID assigned to your non-FB game instance; unfortunately, I simply do not know how since I have always used my Facebook login on my phone.

Here are some tips to increase your gold production:

-- Keep dragons in habitats that have the largest gold cap possible. For example, if your dragon has Dark, Terra, and Flame elements, then try to keep the dragon in a big Dark habitat because it has an 80k gold cap, compared to 20k for Flame habitats and 10k for Terra habitats. Special habitats from the island quests are helpful. For example, there is a Western habitat that counts as a Terra habitat and has a 60k gold cap. When the Western Island quest comes back, try to get one of these and use it in place of a Terra habitat.

-- Level your dragons. However, don't just decide to level all your dragons to bump your gold production because some of the dragons have hideously low gold production rates (Ice and Sea, I'm looking at you). Legendary dragons have the highest gold production rates in the game; they can be bred at 34, but you won't have habitats for them until 38. Dragons that are a War, Light, or Pure hybrid have the next highest gold production rates. Double element dragons (such as Double Sea, Double Terra, Double Metal, etc) have the same gold production rates as Pure and Pure hybrid dragons do. So, breed for the War, Light, and Pure hybrids as early as you can and level these dragons. If you're able to purchase (or earn via an Island quest) a dragon with War, Light, or Pure as one of its elements, I highly recommend it because you can get access to these elements much earlier this way. When it comes to dragons such as the Pearl Dragon, Penguin Dragon, and others that have low gold production rates, just level them to 7th level to fill out their entries in your Dragon Book and then ignore them until much later.

-- Keep the dragon population in your habitats as low as possible for as long as possible. The absolute maximum number of habitats is currently 70. At lower levels, you'll be allowed to have fewer habitats and this number will go up as you level until it hits 70. After you're out of the very low levels, try not to build the maximum number of habitats allowed in case you need a habitat for a particular type of dragon. I stayed about two habitats from the maximum number allowed for my level until I got to a maximum of about 55 or 60. After that point, I stayed 5 or more habitats from maximum simply because I didn't need more. Currently, I have 65 habitats out of a maximum of 70 built.

-- Log in often to collect gold. Until you get the various crystals (Terra Crystal, Sea Crystal, etc) that boost gold production rates, logging in every other hour will probably be fine. If you can log in hourly, that'll really help get your bank. Most people probably don't have jobs that allow them to do this, which is why habitats with large gold caps are really important.

As for growing food, I would recommend growing the largest food you can reasonably sustain. So, if you earn enough gold to plant the 12 hour food every time and still increase your banked gold, I would do that. Remember that you'll need gold for new habitats and possibly for opening up new islands. This is why I always plant food that doesn't cost more than I am able to earn back in the time it grows. Even now, I am able to collect almost 100m gold every two days. So, I plant the 2 day food (cost of 5m gold for each farm) every 2 days - unless I am going out of town or otherwise will not be able to collect regularly. Also, don't upgrade your farms past the "Big Farm" stage unless you're going to be able to plant one of the foods able to be grown on the "Huge Farm" (grow times/costs of 1 day/500k, 1.5 days/1m, or 2 days/5m). Finally, make sure your Dragon Market is built and collect on it every 5 hours. This will not be a lot of food at low levels, but I am now level 74 and get over 29k food from the Dragon Market every 5 hours (about 3 times a day, sometimes 4). This is still not a huge amount of food, but it definitely helps and is noticeable - especially since I am not constantly having to level dragons.