Talk:Treasure Terrace/@comment-26524026-20150923111705

It is possible to get a gold type dragon without buying gold. I have been playing for 6 months now and I'm at level 95. I have never bought gold, but I've saved it up and now I have 1600. I have 5 million coins, and I'm earning approximately 600 000 coins per day (sometimes less, depending on whether I can empty my nests hourly or not), so I'll be buying the treasure terrace soon.

I have only spent gold once before, on a second nest (absolutely essential, if you ask me). I've resigned myself to not winning tournaments and, until recently, I hadn't won a Dragon Tales event or a World Event. But soon I will have a gold type dragon and I'm looking forward to being able to spend gold here and there.

These are my tips for how to do it (I play on iOS and don't know if it's all relevant to Android):

Resist spending to speed things up. Having a gold type dragon will improve your game more than one special dragon (I assume! I don't have mine yet.)

Be a good neighbour. Give gold, maps and lotus blossoms etc every day. I always return the gold that was given longest ago, and that seems to work for me. I usually get more than 3 gold per day in return.

Send the fire dragon on the gold quest whenever you can. I prioritise other special quests over this, but never bother with the map quest (I have enough neighbours not to need the map quest) or the food quest. I always send my lev 10 fire dragon - I don't know if it makes a difference but it's worth a try.

Play all the advertised games. Every time you install and play one you get 15 gold; every time you complete a challenge (e.g. Reach level 15 in Castle Story) you get another 15 gold.