I mean, no one forces you to be p2w. Listen man, the average "whale" spends around 150 bucks a months, which gets u 7500. This is spent on monthlies, and froggy. Jounin medal is not neccessary, but its usuful for the slots, but make sure u get it in the event where its cheaper and gives you cpns back when u buy it, it comes every few months, so u can stock 18 months max i believe. Now, the money that spent for these is to get more cpns, month cards gets you an extra 5600 cpns a month for below 20 bucks, and froggy gets you around 15k cpns, a little below that. So total, around 20k cpns. If you are f2p, and in merged (which you are eventually going to get if u keep playing), u can do 2 SS Convoy, and 1 SS plunder a day, which gives you around 4k a month. So, you get 20k more if you are the average p2w a month. My advice would be to spend for the monthlies at least, which is only 20 bucks a month, if you want to take this game seriously. That way you get almost 10k a month, whereas p2w will get about 14k more from froggy, but they will spend more than 7 times what you are spending, so a fair deal. Ofc, the ultra whales take this one step furthur by spending directly their cpns, yea... dont expect to catch with them ever.