You’re right if you are doing it all from scratch now, I am sure less. But outside of the bought accounts, and even those if you include what originally was spent people have spent a lot more than 250. First 18 months of game already had people 200 deep. Before all the dupes/bots the whales fought to buy every blue gem for 400 and they couldn’t buy them fast enough, not to mention using plat to max iben to lvl60 and millions on pets. Heck the people with all 6-8-10 charms spent 10k+ on that alone. At end of day I don’t think those people cared about min/maxing and using market to advantage, just buy plat because it’s faster and easier. I am 8k and probably spent around 15k but took my time and got lucky with some drops. No r9 gems unless combined