Board Thread:Dragon Story Breeding/@comment-24518316-20140207191048/@comment-5927117-20140326222233

a) The temple increases the chance to get a diamond by a factor of 6. 300 gold to charge the temple for a week. 168 hours in a week is a little bit less than 2g/h. Or 2 Gold let you do in 1 hour what would normally take you 6. So 2g saves you 5 hours or 1g saves you 2.5h A small example. Say the average breeding time for your combo is 10 hours. One try with the temple = 6 tries without (not completely accurate but close enough). So the temple takes you 10h versus 60h without or it saves you about 5h for every hour.

b) Increase your chance by speeding up. 1g to speed up 1h. So 1g saves you 1h

==> The temple is 150% more efficient than speeding up.

That said I understand the lure of speeding up. It much easier to spend 5 or 10 gold now and then versus shelling out 300 but still the smart money is on the temple. It does make sense to speed up just before the Temple expires allowing you to try once more before it's deactivated provided that

(remaining time on the breeding clock)/2 < the'average breeding time' for the breeding combination you're using

I've used the temple only once myself without success but at that time I didn't know the best combo yet. I just tried any old 4-colour combo. As far as I can see you should on average be able get a Diamond in about 5 days with an activated temple (if you use the best combo). Of course it remains a gamble, statistically you have a 50% chance of throwing heads when flipping a coin but that doesn't garantuee you'll get a heads even if you throw 10 times...