Calculating the Number of Tokens You Should Have Been Awarded
Here's how I calculated mine (should be correct, give or take a few - let me know if there' something I missed due to a severe lack of sleep)
We are supposed to be awarded 14 Gold Tokens for every hour of breeding.
Through a mixture of speed breeding and speed hatching, I raised my LB scores by 18,000 (it was more than 20K but I'm using 18K because about 10% of my breeding results were Rare dragons and I'm omitting them because I'm feeling generous
).
Every hour of breeding gets us 3 LB points.
Every hour of hatching common dragons gets us 3 LB points.
I had the 2x score booster turned on.
To calculate the time spent in breeding, I have to divide the total score in half because of the 2x score booster. Then I have to divide that in half again because I only want the points awarded for breeding. And since I get three points for every hour of breeding, I further divide the answer by three. I take this answer and multiply it by 14, (the number of tokens awarded for each hour of breeding), and I have my answer.
So, here goes:
Dividing the score in half because of the score booster gives me: 18,000 / 2 = 9,000 LB Points
Dividing that in half to remove the hatching hours gives me: 9,000 / 2 = 4,500 LB Points
And dividing that figure by three (because we get three points for every hour of breeding) we get: 4,500 / 3 = 1,500 Breeding Hours
Finally, multiplying the 1,500 hours of pure common dragon breeding time by the tokens they regularly award: 1,500 x 14 =
21,000 Gold Tokens Owed
Are we surprised at the number of tokens? Don't be. Speed Breeding and Hatching during the Leaderboard Events really bump up the monthly tokens players collect, giving us the ability to craft more than one of these dragons, (one to keep, the others to trade for essence); you need to trade away the first dragon crafted before you can craft another.
** Note **
If you plan on crafting more than one of these monthly dragons to trade the extras for essence, bare in mind that you should only start your crafting
AFTER you have collected enough tokens for all the dragons. This is because they will stop issuing the tokens once you have crafted your first dragon.