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+# Everything costs money (gold?)
+
+Items - Base colours / skills / specs and associated upgrades
+
+### Sources of money 
+- Start with money and gain income after each battle
+- Higher income from winning 
+
+- Selling items in inventory or equipped on character refunds
+	- Selling from inventory full refund 
+	- Selling from charcter 50% refund
+
+### Uses for money
+
+- Buying items
+- Rerolling vbox
+
+### Base Costs
+
+Base colours have a base 1 cost
+Base skills have a base 2 cost
+Base specs have a base 3 cost
+
+### Actual Costs
+
+- Costs increase as more of an item is used on cryps in the game
+- The cost increases by the base cost for every 6 allocations of base item
+- Allocation is based on all cryps in the game
+
+### Example ###
+
+Round #1
+
+All costs are base costs
+# Team #1 and Team #2 (They both bought the same things)
+Cryp #1 Strike (Attack + RR), (2 + 1 + 1) = (4) cost
+Cryp #1 Empower (Buff + RR), (2 + 1 + 1) = (4) cost
+Cryp #3 Attack, 2 cost
+
+Total cost - 10
+
+Round #2
+
+Items used on cryps include:
+
+Red x 8
+Attack x 4
+Buff x 2
+
+The costs of red for round #2 are now (1 + 1) = 2
+
+If they were to buy the same skill setup it would be as follows:
+
+# Team #1 and Team #2 (They both bought the same things)
+Cryp #1 Strike (Attack + RR), (2 + 2 + 2) = (6) cost
+Cryp #1 Empower (Buff + RR), (2 + 2 + 2) = (6) cost
+Cryp #3 Attack, 2 cost
+
+Total cost - 14
+
+### Philosophy of increasing item costs
+
+- Two games will never feel exactly the same 
+- Costs change over rounds to diversify skill choice and gameplay 
+- As optimal builds emerge the paths to reach them will change every game
+- Rewarded for going (hipster) builds nobody else is trying
+- Some reward for hoarding items in your inventory while they cheaper (hodl red)
+
+### Income values
+
+Could try with  9 base income
+Income increases by 3 each round and winning bonus of 6
+
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