User blog comment:TheScottBird/I Need Some Help/@comment-24428380-20141005181157

Great advise from the other commenters. The one thing I remember doing when I was new (a long time ago) was purchasing mini mines on every island as soon as I unlocked the island. Even before breeding anything. I unlocked all the islands and didn't populate them for quite a while but was collecting the maximum amount of gems from the mines. That's just my own oddity - guess I have a proclivity towards gems. ;) but I would definitely follow what others have said here