Originally Posted by
squigglish
I have been playing this game since 2014. I have never spent any real money but I do hoard my gold. I have bought gold dragons with hoarded gold when they went on sale. I have 8 gold dragons and 7 gold habitats and over 13,000 gold bars so it would be very easy for me to use some of it and buy boosts for the leaderboard. I have never done that and never will. I will, however spend some apples, but not that many. From the first day of the event, I try to breed the dragon but always try and craft it as quickly as possible. Usually, I don?t breed it but can craft 2 in time to raise the second one to level 10 while continuously sending the first on quests. That?s what I did this time and have over 13,000 points. I have been very lucky with spins.
The thing that I don?t like about it, and the reason that I refuse to use the boosts or any gold for that matter is very simple. It is not a level playing field. Some, like me, can easily use gold for an advantage and some others, are somewhere in the middle, where they can spend some gold, but they have to think long and hard whether to do it or not. Then, there are those who cannot afford to spend real money on a stupid game and have not been able to accumulate enough of the fake gold, for whatever reason, to use it on the leaderboard. The one and only reason that I do play the leaderboard is that for me, I like to challenge myself to see how many points I can get without using gold. I don?t like to compete against other players here, because the entire concept is unfair.