Talk:The Gathering of Roses/@comment-5955047-20150219042056

I collected the Omnitat today. I was able to get it by spending time, effort, and some of my stockpile of gems (saved, not purchased) on the event. I did not have to use real money. Woo!

It looks like the Omnitat will hold any dragon that produces coins. I'm using it for rainbow and leap year dragons right now. It won't hold gem dragons.

Tricks:

Breeding plant + light gives only two possibilities, either of which gets 20 roses -- and sells for a good price, too. I did that when I wasn't worried about getting the new seed dragon.

I kept my nursery full. I'd usually only sell or hatch when it would get me roses or when a breeding had finished. I might choose to wait a few hours to hatch or sell in the next rose day. This required some willpower, because outside of these events, I'm accustomed to clearing out eggs from the nursery as soon as possible.

Buying a giant light habitat for 25 gems and immediately selling it for 10 gems gives you 25 roses for 15 gems. There's no special advantage to doing this a second time over just spending 15 gems to get to the daily limit of 40 roses from gem use, so I'd look for opportune moments to spend exactly 15 gems a day on accelerating breedings, hatchings, etc.

I very seldom use gems for any sort of acceleration outside of these events. I'll spend gems on items that can only be had with gems, such as the giant habitats. Otherwise, I save gems for use during events like these.