Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-456354-20130213050855/@comment-9134334-20130213121720

Hi! Welcome to the wiki! :) It's been a while since I started playing the game, but I do have some advice.

What you should be doing: I suppose the short answer would be, "Whatever you want!" That said, it's probably a good idea to get a few neighbors. This is because you are going to need Mystic Maps to expand your territory, and the only way to get those without paying gold for them is to have neighbors. You can post a request (with your Storm8 ID) on the Neighbors page, or if you don't want to post your ID, you can add some of the IDs already there.

The best ways to earn money: If you mean gold, then you can get it in two ways: buying it with real money, or having neighbors. If you mean coins, you can get them by neighbors visiting your island, or by your dragons earning you coins. The latter is probably the faster way overall. So, you're going to want high-earning dragons (rarer ones usually earn more) and put them in habitats separate from your other high-paying dragons, to maximize the amount of time each habitat takes to fill up with coins.

The best ways to earn exp: You get exp from placing buildings, breeding/evolving dragons, and growing food. Probably the most sustainable way is growing food. Since you're going to need a lot of food to feed some dragons, growing food to stock up on it is a good idea anyway. If you have the patience and time, Impruberries give the most food for your money, and the quickest, but you have to replant them every 30 sec. You'll have to pick which foods you want to grow.

The best ways to breed dragons: There is no "best" way to breed any particular dragon. Just put dragons that collectively possess the colors of that dragon until you get it. For Diamond and Infinity, the two dragons have to collectively possess four different colors to have a chance to breed the dragon. The three things that you can change by changing the specific dragons you use are these: coins per hour lost due to the dragons being in the breeding den, other dragons you have a chance of breeding besides the one you're trying for, and lastly, average breeding time for the dragons you don't want (for instance, trying for Forestfire will produce a lot of Life Dragons, which have a breed time of 3h each, while trying for Familiar will produce a lot of Poison Dragons, which have a breed time of 21h each). I wrote some suggested combos for the Diamond Dragon and Infinity Dragon in the notes section on their respective pages.

I hope this helps! If what I wrote makes absolutely no sense (lol) I'll be happy to clarify. :)