Hi. I'm adec1. It's a shame for people (I'm speaking of seniors here in particular) who really don't have much money in the bank to have to spend their own money to purchase gold and to have to use gold to buy just about everything when in truth we can't afford it. Personally, I love this game but now I'm broke. It would be so great if we could use the money in our accounts to purchase the gold. We make money every hour in the game. It sure would be wonderful if we could use that money instead of our social security money to buy gold. I doubt I will live long enough to see that happen.