Talk:Breeding Calculator/@comment-76.215.36.9-20130122201011/@comment-14.139.97.73-20130123070747

coin loss means the total amount of coins you dont get to harvest from the breeding dragons because of keeping the those two in the breeding den.

to achieve lowest coin loss, choose the two dragons which have lowest income and also collectively carry the colors desired.

e.g If you want to breed for Diamond and you have

4 firestorms (lvl 4, lvl 6, lvl 8 and epic)

3 islands(lvl 6, lvl 7, epic).

2 honeybees (lvl 4, epic)

3 Aether (lvl 5, lvl 8, epic)

Then most intelligent decision would be to pick the lvl 4 firestorm and lvl 5 island since they have the four colors but with the lowest coin loss.

Most people do a mistake of breeding epics hoping to get better dragons which is foolishness.

Some people would try epic Honeybee with epic Aether which also is the worst choice and gives zero better chances of getting diamond as compared to the common lower levels combo but you lose out a lot of coins which they cant produce during breeding.

It just depends on having correct colours in the pool. Thats it.

Well... I got my diamond by breeding both lvl 4 common dragons only.. (in just 3rd attempt) so.. its just a matter of luck.. nothing else..