new minions cost an absurd amount . (in General)

So i want to hire a minion but it costs 22 million... by the time i make 22 mil it will likely be 35 million+ whats the trick what am i missing?

The trick is that you should plan carefully and choose at the very start of your NUB how many minions you want to have when they are cheap to buy. Although, there are those people that will run a single minion all throughout their NUB and at the end of it buy 3 more super-expensive minions in order to increase their MPR to the highest they can possibly get it. It takes A LOT of money, but if you save up for a couple of years you'll have enough! Conversely, you could go the Pay to Win route and buy in-game money from people until you have enough. :)

You do make money faster than the cost goes up with a NUB, assuming you're spending most of your BA. I bought my 4th one for 12 million I believe. It is costly the higher you go, you could always try to take a loan from someone to purchase the minion also.

My current to hire the big guy is 157m. By the end of this nub I'll be looking at 250m. Yeah they are expensive lol.

thats not a wee bit too high?

The reason why it is so high is because it is one of the very few ways to buy growth directly. The more it costs the more experience you are buying on the new minion. If you hire a minion after running a nub (and save enough cbd to do so as you go) you could easily see a 1 mil mpr boost or more.

Yeah, I believe the ratio is 3/xp for the cheap and 5/xp for the expensive.