You get gold by playing games 7 days row, also by playing tales / alliance vs alliance you can get easily 5 gold there and there but for the big thing you need to level up a bit for tales / AvA. You can also get 5 gold at level 200, etc.
You have to disable adblock for viewing videos. The boost help a lot for gaining money faster, put you can gain more boxes, which give you more energy.
For the hard badge early fish problems: focus on lumbering, upgrade house, upgrade gathering progressively to keep up with lumbering. Then you will have to focus a little bit on fish when you are getting low on food (but not too low). Level environment 2 (3 if you feel like it), then 3 fisherman Level 4-5. Don't forget to upgrade gathering basket if you don't keep up. Also level 1 time your dragon for the 1st wave, as late as you can.
Since the game is too lagging on Firefox, I try on Chrome and they tell me to download the latest Flash Player, which I have, and activate Javascript, which I try my best by using google search, but everything I try didn't work. So I can't play the game on Firefox and Chrome.
Trick for getting the badge easier. Do quests first if you can. Quests give you XP and when you level up all arena / adventure points are fill again. I got stuck a couple of time because I research combo too early, do 1 hours combo research first for the quests. When you see you have extra adventures point, spend them and a couple for the quests, so that you always get new points coming. For arena this is different, do all you can before you lose a match, resetting the winning counter, then do more quests.
Clicking on 'Buying any pack' quest give a bug, at least for me, you can't buy cards anymore, only packs with kreds/gems. I clear my cache, but it doesn't change anything. I guess I will wait to have 350 gems to buy the cheapest pack.
Thanks!! I don’t know why it stopped lagging. Maybe some Firefox changes. I didn’t fix the game...