Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24145588-20141104211556

I'm just wondering if other people feed their Ethereals up to level 15. For a long time, I didn't bother doing it -- they can't be placed on Gold Island, and the Shards they produce are worthless, so the only discernible benefit is that they get a little bit larger. There didn't seem to be any point in leveling up Ethereal monsters, especially when you consider the ridiculous food cost.

To get a 1-element Ethereal from level 10 to level 15 takes 1,269,760 food; a 2-element costs twice that, 2,539,520 food. Or, 10 times that much in coins. And of course, since it's a geometric progression, the great majority of that is spent just on the last couple of levels.

But I finally decided to do it -- I'm leveling up my Ethereals the rest of the way. With 27 1-element and 26 2-element monsters, that's a total of:


 * 27 * 1,269,760 = 34,283,520 food for 1-elements
 * 26 * 2,539,520 = 66,027,520 food for 2-elements
 * 100,311,040 food for all monsters

to raise them from level 10 to level 15. Or over 1 billion coins converted into food.

I have most of them at 14.75 now, just needing one feeding left for that final growth stage. The island is pretty darned crowded now, I can just imagine what it will look like once they all get that final growth.

And then maybe, finally, I'll finish landscaping the joint. 