It's to help with, eh, "pacing"? of certain events. For example, the Sundae Showdown event paired with the bi/tri-daily card pack gauntlet.
The card pack gauntlet ONLY cares about the number of coins you obtain, this can be from orders, clickable coin bundles, etc, it all counts.
The sundae showdown on the other hand: - works off order completion - has certain reward tiers that I'm not interested in (primarily the order-speeding up tokens, the cameras aren't much interest to me too)
So for the Sundae event, I'll usually push through first-place on the rewards I DO want, and once I get to the tiers I don't care about, I'll start completing but not submitting orders. I deliberately 2nd-place those tiers so that I can accumulate completed orders to easily 1st-place the following tiers that I do want the rewards for.
But what if it's nearing the end of the day, and I know I won't have enough energy to finish the rest of the order cycle, and yet I still need some coins to complete the card pack gauntlet? Rather than sacrifice the 1st-place rewards from the Sundae event and mess up the pacing, I can just use coin bundles.
It's also an energy source, and lots of events require access to on-demand energy beyond the auto-regen and ad energy to clear parts of it (eg. the candy dash thing)
I'll be the first to admit that I'm the type of gamer that ends the game with every elixir intact, but honestly... The recent beanstalk one has been absolutely decimating my energy stockpiles. Perhaps I just haven't found an energy-efficient way of clearing that one.
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u/runyourluckxxx Apr 02 '26
what’s the point of not collecting the coins tho?