Monkey-Nomics (BTDB2)

"For when you're too big to fail..."

- BTDB2 in-game description

Monkey-Nomics is the fifth-tier path 2 upgrade for Banana Farm in Bloons TD Battles 2. Similar to its BTD6 counterpart, Monkey-Nomics gives an ability that earns a large sum of debt-free cash per use. However, in this game the ability gives $20,000 per use, to compensate for the shorter rounds, as well as to account for the competitive nature of the game. It's also half the cost than in BTD6. More importantly, its ability's initial cooldown is reduced to 25% instead of 100% and does not reset to initial cooldown upon buying this upgrade.

Aside from the new ability, it functions just like the IMF Loan.

It costs $50,000, and is unlocked with 25,000 XP.

Appearance
Unlike IMF Loan, Monkey-Nomics's outer walls are made from bricks instead of metal plates, with a darker concrete color and not the teal color of IMF Loan. Monkey-Nomics also has two (or maybe three at the back) entrances besides the one at the front, which is the only one (or maybe two at the back) who has stairs and yellow stripe shaders above the three (or four) entrances. The eight orange windows now are four bigger yellow ones. The banana sign is remade to be a rectangle now and not just a picture of a banana. The roof also has nine (or 12) windows, three on each side and a yellow stripe flag on top.

Summary
Monkey-Nomics excels at providing massive income in later rounds, as it generally takes longer time to progress each round the further the game goes. In some cases in the late-game, it can make even more income than other Bank methods. Additionally, it requires little management to repeatedly tap the ability compared to managing alternate forms of income.

Tips

 * Crosspathing makes little difference for Monkey-Nomics' ability, but 2-5-0 is generally better overall, which improves the IMF function. 0-5-2 currently a situational use, giving more sellback.

Sounds
When activating Monkey-Nomics Ability:


 * [Cash collecting]

Trivia

 * The description "For when you're too big to fail..." is a reference to the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008, where debt-free loans were a common practice, targeting especially for low-income homebuyers.