I consider myself a "middle class" player in terms of gold expenditure, and this enabled me to do more than just "keep up", improving my army stats (until I seemed to reach a ceiling). Soldier EQ then (re)introduced a level of visible gain for my spend. Now this has been removed, it just seems that I am spending gold just to play the game, not getting anywhere... What's the point?

My units are maxed out ie nothing I can bulk buy that makes it into my army, my base is maxed out, 5% bonus units hardly affect my AD...

So if you had a truck of gold (or a vault even) every month, what would you guys spend it on now???