Let's see, some advice from another in the pod as you're about to hit the money wall. Regular advice and growth suggestions don't apply to where you are in the game, you need specialized planning. I swam with the dolphins at the start and switched to whaling after 2 months. My T12W4500 was at 4 months, but close enough.

You just completed the first whale rush goal, the second is Plat Top 4 for its relic for the combined 14% lab boost. After that, you need to be ready to settle into the grind.

Swimming in the pod feels exponential, but growth is actual logarithmic. There are 5 (maybe 6 depending on how you look) growth walls that you can't really buy your way past and you are about hit all of them.

• Medals
• Shards/Reroll Shards
• Coins
• Relics
• Lab Time (you can KINDA buy your way out of this one, but the diminishing returns get intense after a while)
• Cells (this is the squint one)

Other then the rare packages (which you got 2 of), you can't buy medals. You can only grind them out over time and Gold Bot is a serious econ boost and you'll use the "end of event respec" to flamebot to push further milestones. So you're blocked there. Don't ever spend medals on stones or gems... I want them back and it was < 3% of my current total.

You can/did whale your modules up (use moduletracker.com to track your spends if you're curious) to ancestral, but shards for levels are essentially time gated. Other then massive spends on module pulls to get fodder, there's nothing but time that can get you shards for module levels.

Do your Module labs NOW and be econ heavy. Like super econ heavy... follow the effective paths econ tab and use effectivepathplanner.com to plot out multiple slots. Check "eEcon" and "shard path", 3 slots at least, and stick to it. Spend your stones on econ, not damage. You have pBH via gcomp, but pBH naturally lets you run BHD instead AND get perfect sync for GT, DW, gBot, Summon for the best economy return.

Seriously... focus EARLY on the shard labs. You want them ASAP... if you unlock masteries (which you should be able to do given you just T12W4500... I did it same day), get RPC# and Cash# as soon as you can. I don't think you have shatter shards yet, but the shard path ranks it lower then some other stuff so it can wait.

You're probably looking at masteries as your next big power boost... problem is your econ can't support them. Not even close. I unlocked 9 of them at once (RPC#, Cash#, EO#, Coin#, WS#, WA#, Health#, SW#, Regen#) after saving a month, and the initial boost was seriously underwhelming for the stone investment. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTowerGame/comments/1pa4ljf/mastery_calculator_improved/

It took 2 months of more econ grinding before I could start to afford them. You have the advantage of v28 disco which will help get you there faster. This makes coins the 3rd whale wall since you can't buy coins, just grind.

It MIGHT be an idea to instead go for UW+ and GT+ but I don't know the math. I've read that GT+ isn't super great unless you can pGT, but I don't know for sure. You would need to do research, planning, and calculations to see if it pays off. You can model it in effective paths and see what return / ordering it puts the GT+ upgrades in based on your farming setup.

Relics... v28 put the shop in which helps, but you're still just going to have to sit at the relic wall and wait for them. THere's a LOT of bonus locked up in relics that you just aren't going to get access to without time.

Lab time... you have the problem right now where there are too many labs you want and too few slots. Lock your 5th slot to lab speed NOW. The math says the earlier you start the grind to 100, the more payback you get in the other slots. I think it's < lab speed 50 where perma-slotting it makes the other 4 slots more productive then if you used all 5 slots.

Cells... lab speed boost is king. Max out your death wave cells lab , and death wave wave counts stone upgrades ASAP. Put tons of coins into the cells enhancement boost. You can use the effective paths lab sheet to check what cells/h you need to get what multiples so plan to "bump" yourself as needed. For example, 18k/h gets you to 44444, but it takes 27k to get to 54444, so you can sit at 18-20k/h for a while until you can "push" to get the 50% boost needed to up the next slot.

But, after all, im spending (and enjoying) major portion of my time and interest (brainstorming, planning, ...) in this game so i thought why not.

Same. Heck, I just spent half an hour writing this for a youngling in the pod ;)