Make money scaling linear

[Xavion3]

What are the changes the user will see?

More money in the early to mid game, less money in the late game. Prices for shop items are slightly higher to compensate.

Why am I making these changes?

Discussed with balance

What are the changes from a developer perspective?

A new formula for money per wave

Screenshots/Videos

N/A

How to test the changes?

Do anything that earns money based on wave and compare the amount.

Checklist

• I'm using beta as my base branch
• There is no overlap with another PR?
• The PR is self-contained and cannot be split into smaller PRs?
• Have I provided a clear explanation of the changes?
• Have I considered writing automated tests for the issue?
• If I have text, did I make it translatable and add a key in the English locale file(s)?
• Have I tested the changes (manually)?
  • Are all unit tests still passing? (npm run test)

[ben-lear]

Will this impact endless?

[Xavion3]

Yes, endless will find that items are much cheaper than before due to linear scaling instead of exponential scaling, and the golden punch is probably actually good.

[damocleas]

Will need testing further, I will post in the channel if it seems fine, shotgunned an approval automatically because cheese brain

[PigeonBar]

This will have MASSIVE impacts on Endless players' ability to reroll in the shop. (Edit: For reference, reroll cost scales linearly both before and after this rework.) For example, on wave 4501, before this rebalance, a Relic Gold would give players enough money to reroll a very high number of times:

However, after implementing linear scaling, a Relic Gold will now only give around 7 times the amount of money needed for 1 reroll, which means that Endless players will be able to reroll much fewer times than before (and rerolls get even more expensive if you use Lock Capsule):

This would mess up Endless strategy a lot, similarly to #3094. Is this intended?

[Xavion3]

Endless can still do a lot of rerolls, it's just less a single wave earns you enough money to reroll 5 times per wave for the next 100 waves.

Golden Punch actually becomes a viable item too and the new best way to make money, so comparing to relic golds is less accurate. A single golden punch proc is probably giving way more than a relic gold by the 4000s for example.