Talk:Eggs/@comment-11382507-20130731093811/@comment-4830404-20130805155426

Don't buy the Diamond Temple imo. You can get a lot of mileage with speeding up breeding strategically using 300 gold with a good combo like Dino + Turkey/Scarecrow (if you have those dragons; if not, try to pick a combo with low-ish fails still). The trick to strategic speeding is to spread it out. You max out your nests without a possibility of the next breed completing before your nests are clear. So let's say you're doing a red/green combo. If you get two 3 hours in a row and speed them into your two nests, your next breeding is guaranteed to be at least 3 hours long, so you just breed again and wait those hours, then start the cycle over. HOWEVER. If you breed a 6 hour, speed it up onto one empty nest, then breed a 6 hour again, you do not wait to speed that up until you wait 3 hours because it's possible that your next breeding will be a 3 hour, then you would've essentially wasted 3 gold. Obviously time constraints will force you to deviate from the strategy (I had to dump a lot of gold into Magic dragons when rushing for the Eclipse before it expired).

This works best with two nests. If you do not have two nests, it's MUCH more worth it to save for the second nest than it is to buy the Diamond Temple. Much much more, it's permanent and will save you gold whenever the breed times are offset. The second nest is the most efficient first-gold-purchase in the entire game. Third and Fourth are unnecessary (I haven't bought them because I think they're not worth it), but getting the second one is huge.

Anyways, breeding a Diamond takes patience and luck, so you just put lots of attempts in and one day you will get there :)