Quote Originally Posted by Lord Diabound View Post
To buy all good stuff like medal boxes
The only items really worth buying are war horns and excalibur. If you're realy desperate for medals and don't want to keep farming for them to drop, then I guess medal boxes would be worthwhile, but they're very expensive so it'd take allot of money to buy your way through all the ranks.

As for speed-ups, do the math some time to figure out how much U.S. $ you'd have to spend to take a city from all Lv1 to all Lv9 using speedups. It's close to $1,000, so I really doubt that very many people are advancing constructions very rapidly using speedups that they've purchased with coins.