Talk:Jet Dragon/@comment-25513657-20141115032737

Now let's see. This dragon at its maximum level produces 2 gems a month (and no dragon cash). So even at its "sale" price of 150 gems it will take 75 months (over 6 years) to pay for itself. And at its non-sale price it will never pay for itself in your lifetime. Definitely need to breed this one rather than buying it. Not that I have bought any others, but I have purchased gems a few times for other purposes and did buy some fireflies because I started playing near the end of the firefly event and realized I wouldn't get the dawn or dusk dragons if I didn't do that. But it seems to me that the gem dragons  (particularly the ones that run over several months and produce half the gems of the monthly ones) are overpriced and underproductive. Of course BFS wants you to buy gems so they limited the number of gems produced. They are a business after all, and they do need to make a profit, otherwise Dragonvale wouldn't be still be here.