Talk:Leaderboard Event/@comment-27109413-20160605092951/@comment-25462635-20160605111827

Well, I can give you my opinion. And sorry for being lengthy... I never learned to be short. :D

I have 2 gold types, White Gold and Northstar. I bought White Gold purely for aesthetic reasons - it's really one of my all time favorites when it comes to looks, and since buying was the only option to get it, I gave TL some of my real money for it, I didn't care. It was 600 gold bars on sale, I had like 300 saved, so I bought the medium gold stack (530 bars) for 14 CHF on offer.

So yay, first gold type on my island! 5 gold bars extra every day. Not bad... saving still not very fast, but you do notice it goes faster.

The second, Northstar, was bought also on sale, 640 gold, and this time I almost had the amount (I would have had for sure, just I'm always falling for the special habitats...), and it was around Christmas I think, so I decided to treat myself to a gift (and make one to TL), also because Iiked his looks so much. This time bought only the 250 gold stack, again on sale, I think for 7.50 CHF.

Another habitat, another 5 gold per day. And yes, now you do really notice a difference. Now it's much easier to say, OK, I want to win this tourney, 30 gold for ultimate, who cares, it's less than 3 days until I have it back.

I can totally imagine that players with many gold types (like my competitors in this event) never ever again buy gold for money. If you have a regular income of 50-80 gold bars per day, there is no reason for it. And you can easily save up enough in a short time to buy even more gold dragons, until you run out of habitats for them (I think there was a limit on them, I thought 5, but one of my competitors has 8 already).

So, my opinion is, once you buy one, you will be, if you are scrimpy, be able to save enough gold for the next gold type on sale, and then it gets even more easy to save for the next one, and so at some point, you have enough gold to get anything you want in this game, nests, roost, temple, boosts, without giving TL any more money.

Unfortunately, since I was not scrimpy enough, and I'm not sooo into the looks of Kintsugi, I have to sit out until the next one. :) Next time I'll be prepared!