Talk:Gems/@comment-24622077-20151117175103/@comment-5098300-20151117180025

I try to use gems to speed breedings only when it's 1-2 gems. If I'm about to go to sleep and there's 4 or more hours left in the breed, I leave it alone. It's my rule. I've bent my rule too often only to see that I've spent 4 gems and now have a one-hour dragon going overnight. But now that I have a rule about it, when I'm tempted, I remember my rule. It's definitely worth spending gems to upgrade habitats because then you get more dragoncash when you're off-game and you can use that to upgrade dragons so your breeding odds are better. Here's a strategy - try to save your gems until you have at least 100 gems. We will most likely have an event over Christmas, and you can spend those gems then, to upgrade habitats during the event on a double weekend. That way, you'll get double whatever the event currency is PLUS you'll be doing something to upgrade your overall dragon park. This will require using very few gems between now and the next event, but it'll really be helpful in the next event. And good luck, it's hard to change your strategy from a gem-spender to a gem-hoarder, but you can do it, Roma.