What to do with Beans?

[Sharpielein]

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?

[Thejollyone]

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

[Larili]

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

[Thejollyone]

Lmao

[Sharpielein]

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

[Bluesavanah]

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.

[FishSmell]

Medipack?

[Pityaker]

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

[Kriegor]

Beans -> XP maybe? or star coin

[Dorotheus]

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