What I'm doing in grandson Jack's park, for which I buy minimal gems, is to slooowly move forward on the gold shrine grind with a kind of compromise. I usually breed one Pan at a time and use the rest of the breeding space for Metals, which at this time I simply sell for the coins. I find that in the time it takes to breed a Pan that I'm able to accumulate plenty of food to immediately level it to 15 and add it to the CGCF. So it starts to contribute to the cash flow right away, which provides an accelerating, compounding effect.
When I'm done with the Pans - I think we're at about 24/50 - if things are the same as they are now I will go to the Blooms. I'll save those in a triple boosted Norwegian Gold Coin Factory for the cash flow. Even with the shorter breeding time than Pans I think I'll still be able to keep up with the food requirements with the continual breeding of Metals and the CGCF and NGCF churning away.
I'm not too worried about leveling up the Metals because unless something better comes along I will be breeding them for cash for the foreseeable future. In my park I found that the Metal gold shrine was by far the easiest because it paid for itself along the way.
I haven't really analyzed this approach mathematically, just fell into what feels like a productive flow. Fletch may well have a sounder strategy.
Poppy
