Supply Drop Ability



'''"Supply Drop Ability: Drops a crate full of cash."

- Official Bloons TD 5 description '''

Supply Drop Ability is the final upgrade on path 2 for the Sniper Monkey. The Supply Drop Ability, it makes an Operation: Dart Storm plane appear (it does not attack!) and drop a small crate with bananas on it. The player must then put their mouse cursor over the crate to withdraw the random amount of money ($500-$1500) to spend on towers and upgrades. When bought, this ability must go through a chargeup before use.

Cost: $10200 (Easy), $12000 (Med),$12960 (Hard)

Trivia

 * Supply Drop Ability is not useable in Deflation Mode, probably because you could slowly earn money back. However, by upgrading a sniper 3 in path 2, one can press the period hotkey to upgrade to supply drop. However, the ability will remain almost recharged and thus will be unusable.
 * It is the only ability that, when bought, has to cooldown straight away. This makes it unreasonable as use for quick cash in late levels.
 * Using a Monkey Beacon upgraded with the path that allows abilities to recharge faster, as well as a handful of supply drop sniper monkeys, it is possible to earn lots of cash if you can survive for enough rounds.
 * The crate that the plane drops is the same crate as what the Banana Research Facility makes. (4th upgrade first path for Banana Farm.)
 * Every crate gives from $500 to $1500 money to the player ($1000 in average), so when rounds are long enough that the player can use this ability 4&times; or more then it can give more money per round than Banana Farm (upgraded 4-2 gives $3000).
 * On average it takes 12 uses to break even.
 * While this is the same as a BRF crate, it always gives at least £500 while BRF crates give a maximum of £300.