I was trying to find an argument to defend this dragon but ...
960/24 hrs = 40 food per hour
That put it between Scalypears (35 food/hour) and Eliteleeks(40.1 food/hour) which make it the 2nd worst food source of the game.
Then i think "but is a new food source independent from farms , maybe thats is the catch"
And then i see the Fruitful Fields:
Dragon Capacity 2
Food Capacity 200
The food capacity make it a 5 hour cycle of harvest , soo ... it dont work as good as eliteleeks (8 hours cycle) or Scalypears (20 hours cycle) and the "collect up to 960 food a day" false advertisment, you can collect that much food only if you are not sleeping.
Yeah, looking up the habitat make the dragon worst , now it have the same collect cycle of Pumpwing (45 food/hour) and DiamondDates (160 food/hour) wich make it the worst of the 3.
The worst is : Only one Fruitful Fields is allowed per island.
Soooo 1000 gold for a very bad food source.
Is aditional food but you need to be sleepless for 271 days because the habitat holds too litle foodit would take just under 271 days to accumulate the 260,000 food that can be purchased for the same amount of gold.
324675, you need to wait 8116 hours , 338 days (if you can collect in less than 5 hours cycles )In which case, how much food does it take to get to Level 15?
some more realistic estimate will be 840 food (16 awake hours *40= 640 + 200 from sleep hours )= 386 days
After check all other variables, (habitat size 4x4, Food Bonus , time ) this dragon is somewhat like having another farm that is always producing scalypears but you need to collect more often that the real farm. And thats is sad for a 1000 coin investment
how can be this dragon better?
if you mantain the habitat's food limit: increase the food output to fill it in 1 hour when both dragons are level 15 : 100 food per hour
Now this premium food source is better than fireaples , but still less convenient that Rushrooms.
if you mantain the food output: increase the habitats food storage to 10 000 (like all others 2 dragons habitats), then this food source becomes a "food bank" that need ~10 days to fill.
I dont understand why the restriction of 1 Fruitful Fields if there are 4 Food producing dragons