Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24450179-20140222183609/@comment-24145588-20140223173648

Sure, it's easy to get to level 30, and everything else you might want, without spending any real money. It just takes a little patience. Fortunately for BBB (and for the rest of us) there are enough impatient people out there paying money, to keep the whole thing going.

Getting to level 15 is not a good investment coin-wise: exponential cost (the money you spend to generate food) for linear gain (the coins that the monsters actually produce). Getting your first few monsters to 10, 12, 15, will seem like quite an effort. The goal rewards for getting each type onto Gold Island will also seem good, but what you get back is much less than what you spent to get them there. The good news is, once you have one full island, and another, etc., the coins will roll in so fast that it's very easy to get further monsters up that high.

After a while, there's nothing else to do with your money except to turn it into food, feed your monsters, and level them up, so it's easy to get your Gold Island well populated. I have (if I remember right) 65 monsters there now: The full populations of my Plant and Cold islands, one of each of the other types from Air, Water, and Earth, plus a Yool and Schmoochle. Sometime this week I'll probably kick up everything from the Air Island, too, and have probably 80 monsters on Gold Island.