City Level

“	When this city gets big enough, you will be able to start a 2nd city. Prepare for this by building this city as great as possible.	”
	^{~ "Prepare to expand!" Quest description}

City Level is the level of the players' city in Bloons Monkey City. The player can level up when they get a certain amount of Experience. The highest city level on flash is 40. Players can gain various amounts of XP by doing any of the following:

Capturing new tiles by player-initiated attack.
Building facilities/buildings in their town
Buying upgrades for the towers in the upgrade buildings
Completing quests
Capturing new tiles, which in flash, may also be done by successfully defending an MvM attack. MvM attacks in flash will target the lowest value tile adjacent to the city (which, perhaps with similarity to the Bloon Beacon, may avoid tiles with specific rewards so as to avoid Special Missions, Treasure Chest tiles, Volcano Terrain, and Caves Terrain). Captures by MvM defense will result in an XP reward relative to the level of the attack. A player that has evenly pushed out borders: while buying a minimum of towers, while buying upgrades for a minimal range of towers used and while not fulfilling unnecessary quests, will receive a relatively low XP reward from defending MvM attacks. A player that has left relatively low-value tiles unconquered while expanding their city along spoke-like paths; while getting several high-value upgrades, and while pursuing all available quests, will receive a relatively low XP reward from defending MvM attacks.

Demolishing buildings will create debt equal to the XP gained for completing them, plus any upgrades; this must be paid by earning that amount of XP before the player's City XP can increase again.


Level	XP Needed	Starting Cash	Lives
1	0	350	20
2	100	450	25
3	150	550	30
4	250	650	35
5	400	750	40
6	600	850	45
7	850	950	50
8	1150	1050	55
9	1500	1150	60
10	1900	1250	65
11	2350	1350	70
12	2850	1450	75
13	3400	1550	80
14	4000	1650	85
15	4650	1750	90
16	5350	1850	95
17	6100	1950	100
18	6900	2050	105
19	7750	2150	110
20	8650	2250	115
21	9600	2350	120
22	10600	2450	125
23	11650	2550	130
24	12750	2650	135
25	13900	2750	140
26	15100	2850	145
27	16300	2950	150
28	17650	3050	155
29	19000	3150	160
30	20400	3250	165
31	21850	3350	170
32	23350	3450	175
33	24900	3550	180
34	26500	3650	185
35	28150	3750	190
36	29850	3850	195
37	31600	3950	200
38	33400	4050	205
39	35250	4150	210
40	37150	4250	215

Advantages and Disadvantages[]

The advantages of gaining higher levels include:

Greater access to buildings, towers, upgrades and decorations. Some upgrades and buildings require a certain City Level (similar to rank in other BTD games) before being bought. Once the player gains enough XP, their city levels up.
+5 more in-game lives per game.
+$100 more in-game starting money per game.
Earning City Cash and Bloonstones when leveling up.
Earning cash and rewards in Contested Territory events (from level 5).
Accessing other events. For instance, Monkey Team challenges and Mini Land Grab can be accessed from level 8.
Access to Bloon Beacons, Boss Battle events and the ability to earn Monkey Knowledge Packs (from level 12).

However, disadvantages include:

Having to do a higher tier Contested Territory (which only increases City Cash reward by a little amount)
Decreased difficulty may lead to Trivial Difficulty tiles which, if not taken as opportunities for capture in Monkey team events, can be seen as a nuisance.
Being forced to fight against harder MvM attacks.
Being forced to research more advanced bloons before you can send an MvM attack.

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