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# Two Currencies

$DEFUND is what you spend. Points are what you earn, and they all sit in one balance.

![What each one can do](https://3552858075-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FGyJ2fCw8mpbx6YAYcG8z%2Fuploads%2F2P8f6vZ1bB1JMiBaHVL3%2Ffig-14-currencies.svg?alt=media)

## $DEFUND

$DEFUND is what you spend, and nothing in the game gives it back to you:

* your office, paid once
* desks, servers and quant cores
* traders and legendary hires
* comfort, because comfort raises what your traders produce
* more floor space, and every upgrade

## Points

Points are what you earn, and there is **one balance** holding all of them. Two things pay into it:

| Source       | How it arrives                                |
| ------------ | --------------------------------------------- |
| Your office  | Continuously, at the rate the office produces |
| The terminal | When a cycle settles, up to the ceiling       |

Office income accrues against the clock rather than against a tick counter, so it keeps adding up whether or not you have the game open, and a restart can neither double-pay it nor lose it.

{% hint style="danger" %}
**Points can never buy production.** No amount of output will ever turn itself into more output. Every increase to your office is a decision you make and pay for in $DEFUND.
{% endhint %}

What points can do is buy cosmetics, and be traded in the terminal. Your whole balance is in play there — there is no separate stake to move across, and no ceiling on how much of it you can put at risk.

## Which one pays for what

| What you are buying | You pay in | Why                            |
| ------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------ |
| Income              | $DEFUND    | It changes your output         |
| Systems             | $DEFUND    | It changes your output         |
| Staff               | $DEFUND    | It changes your output         |
| Comfort             | $DEFUND    | It raises what traders produce |
| Walls               | Points     | Decoration only                |

$DEFUND comes from your own wallet — the game never hands you any and never pays any back. Points start at your office, so until you have built something there is nothing coming in.


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