The money "exploit" can't affect you in any way. If someone who has low amount of money can't buy anything in trade HQ, also the one with huge amount of money can't buy anything, it's the same for all. Or do you think that rich players have some privilege to buy the items first? No, they don't. When i was trying to buy expansion items, i was not looking for the price and expensive items where impossible to buy as well as cheap ones (dozer blades). So the problem is that trade HQ does not work for all and money can't help you.
Also i think the money "exploit" is the worst one i ever seen.. You have to buldoze your whole city, then do the buldoze cycle all over again like a dron for hours.. This will raise your level and rebuild of your city will be veeery hard and slow, because on high level you will have all items unlocked and you will need the worst materials to upgrade your buildings.. Well, feel free to start "exploiting" if you think you will get any advantage over other players 🙂
