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How money works, with a quizOne balance · Double in the hotzone · Wipes to gold

One balance you spend every life, why the starting cash is seed money, earning double in the hotzone, what the season wipe takes, and a five question quiz.

  1. 01

    One balance, spent every life

    Your cash is a single account balance. You buy a kit before each life, lose everything you carried when you die, and keep what you earned. Rebuy repurchases your last kit in a couple of clicks. The per-life buy economy

    The top right corner of the equipment vendor showing the cart total, the cash balance and the level badge.
    Top right of the vendor: the cart total, then your cash balance ($106,966 [S1] in this capture).In-game screenshot, Season 1 client, 15 Sep 2026
  2. 02

    Treat the starting cash as seed money

  3. 03

    Earn inside the yellow circle

    The hotzone is the small yellow circle drifting inside the control zone. Every payout and every XP award doubles there, and you count as two players for scoring. Hold its edge from cover rather than chasing it into open ground. The hotzone double-payout rule

    Hotzone payout message after an action inside the yellow circle.
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    Know what the season wipe takes

    At season end your cash converts to gold bars, and your levels, XP and blueprint unlocks wipe. Gold bars and the cosmetics bought with them stay. What wipes and what you keep

  5. 05

    Check yourself

    1. You die with a full kit. What do you keep?
    2. Where does a revive pay the most?
    3. Is the starting $10,000 [S1] given again every match?
    4. The season ends. What happens to your leftover cash?
    5. What is the cheapest item that repays itself most reliably?

The evidence behind this tutorial

Checked against Season 1 on 2026-09-13

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