The expected value of every pack type.
Cash City has three pack types, each serving a different role in your strategy. Understanding their expected value helps you decide where to allocate your $CASH.
The primary growth engine. Each pack yields one Intern with a random rarity.
Expected efficiency per pack (Level 1 firm): ~600
Common
100
45%
45
Uncommon
300
30%
90
Rare
500
15%
75
Epic
2,000
7%
140
Legendary
6,000
2.5%
150
Mythic
20,000
0.5%
100
Total
100%
600
At baseline assumptions (10,000 active Interns, 10M daily emissions), each unit of Efficiency earns roughly 0.139 $CASH per day. That puts the expected daily return of one Intern pack at approximately 83.4 $CASH, giving an average payback period of around 2.4 days.
This is intentionally fast early in the game's life — it drives aggressive reinvestment and fills the trading floor quickly.
Intern Packs are the most consistent return on investment for most players. When in doubt, buy Intern Packs.
The scaling play. Each pack yields one Advisor with a global percentage boost.
Expected boost per pack: ~3.93%
The value of an Advisor Pack depends entirely on your current total Efficiency:
10,000
~55 $CASH
~18 days
50,000
~273 $CASH
~3.7 days
100,000
~546 $CASH
~1.8 days
500,000
~2,730 $CASH
~0.4 days
Advisor Packs are negative EV for small players and massively positive EV for whales. A player with 500,000 Efficiency recoups the cost of an Advisor Pack in under 10 hours.
Don't buy Advisor Packs until you have a meaningful Efficiency base. For most players, this means having at least several Firms full of Interns before Advisors become worth the 1,000 $CASH price tag.
The micro-optimisation layer. Each pack yields one 24-hour boost (flat or multiplier).
Consumable value scales with the intern you apply it to:
Common Intern (100 Eff)
~6.7 $CASH
Negative
Epic Intern (2,000 Eff)
~16.7 $CASH
Breakeven
Mythic Intern (20,000 Eff)
~87.6 $CASH
Positive
Consumables are only worth buying if you have high-rarity Interns to apply them to. On Common or Uncommon Interns, the expected boost doesn't cover the 25 $CASH pack cost within the 24-hour duration.
Optimal play: Stockpile consumables from Daily Crates and only buy additional packs when you have Legendary or Mythic Interns to boost.
Intern
200
Everyone — core growth
Always
Advisor
1,000
Whales — efficiency multiplier
After 50k+ Efficiency
Consumable
25
Targeted boosts on rare interns
When you have Epic+
The economy is designed so that Intern Packs are the default spend for the majority of players, Advisor Packs become the endgame pursuit for scaled operations, and Consumables are a secondary optimisation layer rather than a primary investment.
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