What is the point of currency?

baksinengl89 wrote:
What's the benefits of upgrading the Redwood and Money Mountain besides getting new skins for Lisa and Burns?

They are just giant decorations.

battlefieldID194 wrote:
As you can see, I am less than enthusiastic about advancing levels and I am not spending my cash to do so.

If you think of three of the levels as one, so that instead of earning 1 donut per level (500k right before lv939) you're earning 3 donuts per "level" (equal to 1.5 million xp), that is a better "deal". Remember how the old bonus levels were 1 million, then 2 million, then 3 million, et. al, up to 10 million each. 1.5 million is a bit higher than level 939's 1 million, but it's not too huge of a difference.

I disagree. :x :x :x :wink: :mrgreen: .....surley all the doughnuts that we received were given to us to help buy all the newly doughnut thingies....what else would you want to spend those newly
nuts on?

baksinengl89 wrote:
What's the benefits of upgrading the Redwood and Money Mountain besides getting new skins for Lisa and Burns?

At the end of Burns' money mountain, you get a super premium skin for Mr. Burns. Unfortunately, you will probably never make enough money from that skin to recover the money you dumped on the money mountain.

The final money mountain looks good. And yes, that shouldn't be a priority. Go get all the lands first. That's already a huge money dump.

Dedrater699 wrote:
Aside from buying land, is there any point to it anymore? For some reason you can spend donuts to get in game currency, but not the other way around. What's up with that?

TIP:

If you have that task to build an ocean front mansion to level 5, but you stopped at level 4 because you don't have Lenny making ads, once you get to game level 85 you can spend $200k for 5 ads per flick!

After months, I'll finally have that task out of my taskbook for the mere price of $800k, in less than a day's movie showings.

Spending that money on movies seems way more efficient than spending and rebuilding all the SH currencies necessary to unlock Lenny for ads; THEN building all the ads for the L5 mansion.

So yes, in game cash is still valuable, we're just using it in new ways. :wink:

battlefieldID194 wrote:
Why else would the have added the new cash-for-donut transactions that open up after level 60?

The Cash-for-Donut transactions have been around for quite some time, but they only appear in the Shop Menu as "New Items" once a new level has been introduced/achieved (which has been occurring rather frequently for some players lately). :wink:

BlackFloppyDisk wrote:

baksinengl89 wrote:
What's the benefits of upgrading the Redwood and Money Mountain besides getting new skins for Lisa and Burns?

At the end of Burns' money mountain, you get a super premium skin for Mr. Burns. Unfortunately, you will probably never make enough money from that skin to recover the money you dumped on the money mountain.

It depends on your multiplier. By my calculation (very rough at that) it should take somewhere between a year and a half to two years to earn back the money spent on money mountain. But the increased XP makes it worth it well before then ;)