I was frustrated with the gold earning system when I first joined as well, but we didn't have games back then either, so it was considerably slower too. xD;;
There's a really quick way to max out on the amount of gold you can earn by playing tetris though. If you're interested, you can easily find youtube videos of it (just do a search for menewsha tetris gold or something similar). And you can always set up a mule account if you don't have one already and double the amount of gold that you can make each day. :D
Other then that, I would just recommend chatting with other users just for the sake of talking and getting to know other people. It's a lot easier and gold-earning is seems much faster if you're not actually preoccupied with your gold count.
I could always chat in your threads if you make a hangout thread or a quest thread. Just send me a link and I'll definitely drop in from time to time. x3
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