I’m just not understanding how the Megabit system works with fights against the The Mega Virus. No matter how high of score I get, or how high the multiplier from exploiting the weakness, the amount of Megabits I get just fluctuate with no discernible pattern.
I mean, what am I suppose to do exactly? The amount of Megabits I need to upgrade my characters’ Battle Badges is absolutely unreachable at the rate I’m getting them, as well as at the rate new Levels are added to them.
The maximum number of Megabits you can get from the Codebase is 361, which is distributed randomly among the four types; it’s been that way since this mode was introduced 6 months ago, with people explaining 5 months ago that this exact problem was inevitable if the number of Megabits from Codebase didn’t start going up with each new rank.
The developers are aware of the issue and say they’re planning to address it, but there’s no indication of when we’ll see any changes. 
Exactly…
I sent the Codebase scaling thing to Loutre to send over to the team like a month ago now. It was from the start apparent that the 361 was too low to even unlock most of the Battle Badges. Yet level 2 had 1800 (aka double of unlock) cost.
And I was in my calculations quite generous towards the team, since it was basically scaling based on one level, not the sum of all previous levels (which it should be in fact).
Just saying it still is:
80/80/80 and 150 for favorite, roughly.
Considering the 900 cost, it was around 1/12 and 1/6 respectively of the amount.
I don´t even know what the cost for level 6 is, but I assume around 7k (correct me on this one please).
80/7k is like 1%, while 150/7k is around 2%.
One would have to grind FIFTY TRIES to get a single level 5 to level 6. That´s SEVENTEEN DAYS, out of 28. So @Loutre the team must indeed get their game up. I saw them raising the deals, but Codebase still lacks even a remote chance of scaling. 
And I fear that one day the non-scaling Codebase won´t be an even sufficient to freely level up a Battle Badge. I wouldn´t mind if the Megabit cost per level was divided by 10, in fact would have made the scaling way less needed at the moment. And then just give the players already spending a lot of Megabits 90% back (although that might hurt F2Ps even more)
What do megabits do? Are they worth spending money on how do I use them
Megabits are used to unlock and level up Battle Badges, which are available for your heroes once you promote them into the Yellow ranks. IMHO, they absolutely aren’t worth spending money on; I’d advise just building a team that can get the 361 Megabits from Codebase three times a day, and only level up Battle Badges that are (a) being used by your most-used heroes, and (b) are genuinely useful to those heroes.
Interesting topic now that my server has reached Yellow.
Do you mean by leveling, the same as unlocking? Like should I just not unlock certain Battle badges? Do they get locked again by promoting into the next rank? How does that work?
I need to see if anyone’s written a tutorial or guide to Battle Badges, honestly; I barely pay attention to them myself. Anyway, answering your main questions:
You unlock a Battle Badge in much the same way as you unlock a Red Skill; once unlocked, the hero has it equipped permanently. As you promote the hero further up the Yellow ranks, you can also level up their Battle Badge with each rank which increases the stats on its benefits, but it costs more Megabits the higher the level.
You can also enhance a Battle Badge, which (except for the first badge you enhance) costs Megabits and a boatload of XP drinks; enhancing likewise increases the badge’s stats, and also unlocks a third benefit. If you level up an enhanced Battle Badge, you lose its enhancement and get back only a part of the Megabits you spent to enhance it, and none of the XP. The good news is that the cost of enhancing a Battle Badge depends on how many you currently have enhanced, so if you level up all your enhanced badges, you can re-enhance one (or enhance another one) for free. Use that ability wisely, and limit yourself to enhancing probably just one or two Battle Badges unless you’re a whale.
If anyone else has any more information or advice, please reply; as I say, I mostly ignore Battle Badges and so don’t claim to be an expert.
Thank you I’m about to !level my top 5 to yellow in the next day or two
Thanks for the answer!
I had heard of the enhancing part (and to use that one you got wisely!), but hadn’t heard of leveling up. Good to hear it works simularly to red skills (or not actually if it relates to leveling-up, because it means it is too expensive), at least in the way that once unlocked the first stats remain.
So I gues I will try to unlock all, but level only those that seem to be worth anything. Thanks again!