What to do with Beans?

Ever since the release of the "Level Pack XXL", the price of Magic Beans started plummeting.
After an initial rise towards 25 coins (Northisle), it has since declined by 80% - to the point where now Beans are getting traded below 5 coins, occasionally even below 1:1 for Granite, an all-time low.
The end of this decline is not in sight, as high level players are constantly doing Ali Baba adventures, which give beans as "junk loot": Doing only Ali Baba adventures after reaching Level 54, a player will accumulate well over 200000 beans before reaching Level 60.
By the time a player hit Level 70, they will probably hit a good couple millions of beans.
I wouldn't be amazed if a player would earn over 10 million beans by the time they hit Max Level.

Unfortunately, there is not much to do with beans: Buy the Sector Licenses, get the Generals and Quartermasters - a couple of Magnificent Residences and you're set. If you're wasteful, you may need about 300k beans to plaster your island and archipelago. But then - what?

Do we need more/better things to do with Beans, lest they become as useless as Saltpeter once was?
What could that be?

been mentioned already in a few posts. On the other hand, gcs on Sandycove are now desirable again, soo...

Shouldn't it really be `what to do with stalks' ? ;)

If Jolly promises not to hit me with that rolling pin again, I might suggest that for 1 million stalks the player might get a starter pack for TSO 2.
You know the sort of thing BB like to do, 100 pine wood planks, 100 stone, 100 tools, a extra tavern general with a feather in his cap...just to make him special, and not forgetting the most highly valuable `cheese sandwich' to give your new island a head start.
All for 1 million stalks in TSO 1......Problem solved, I can see the price of beans rocketing on the mere suggestion :D :D

Lmao

How about something players actually care for - something that people would want to use with (near) infinite demand, e.g. something that:
a) Is worth getting
b) Gives you some sort of "progress"
c) Does not consume a limited resource, such as island space

Just give me a 3x barracks buff that lasts either 12 hours or 24 hours the rest of the beans I'll use for something or give away to guildy's.

Medipack?

Making magnificent residences upgradable using beans would be a good start.

Beans -> XP maybe? or star coin

With today's dev blog maybe ideas for zone buffs using beans might be helpful.