Talk:Strategies/@comment-5017970-20120502100834/@comment-72.18.170.204-20120504201151

What Amandarcene said. Also, another way of saying is that the cost of food to level up a dragon is an expotential relation; whereas the level of a dragon with respect to its earning rate is linear; and therefore, it becomes increasingly more costly to invest in food for leveling up for the same increase in earning rate.

That is, it is better (with regard to earning rate return) to distribute the food evenly and level up all dragons equally with one another..... than it is to leave a bunch of dragons behind and only level up one or a few dragons.

Also note: The Dragon Earning Rates table either rounds or truncates (I haven't inspected enough to see which, but I believe it is truncation) floating point rates to integers. So, if you plot the numbers in the table as-is, you will see minor discrepencies in the linearity due to this truncation/rounding. However, in reality, it is a linear relation.