Merits

**Merits** are a unit requirement needed to fight the Cog Bosses and earn a promotion for your Cog Disguises. You can view your Merits at the bottom left of the Gags tab, or by locating the Cog Disguises tab in your Shtickerbook. Once you've met your Merit requirement, that Department's tab will read "**Ready for promotion!**" After reaching the max promotion level for a Cog Disguise, it will read "**Maxed**" and you will no longer need to obtain Merits to fight that Department's Boss.

There are five types of Merits, one for each Cog Department: **Invoices** for Sellbots, **Cogbucks** for Cashbots, **Patents** for Lawbots, **Stock Options** for Bossbots, and **Shares** for Boardbots. Since there's currently no way to obtain a Boardbot Cog Disguise, it is impossible to obtain Shares.

## Obtaining Merits

Each type of Merits can be obtained by defeating Cogs of their respective Department (e.g. Invoices from defeating Sellbots).

Under normal circumstances, all Cogs will give a Merit value equal to their Cog level. Executive Cogs will give 50% more Merits than a standard Cog. Cog Buildings have a Merit multiplier equal to their story count (e.g. 5-story buildings have a multiplier of 5). The courtyards and facility exteriors of Cog Headquarters give a x2 merit multiplier. Cog Facilities give massive Merit multipliers and are generally one of the most effective ways to obtain large amounts of Merits. Kudos Managers and any Cogs fought in their battle will not reward Toons with any Merits.

Other ways of increasing Merits are by buying Merit Boosters in the G.U.M.B.A.L.L. Machine and Club Shop or by playing during Merit Monday which increases all Merits gained by 25%.

### Cog Buildings

The following is a list of Merits that can be obtained from Cog Buildings:

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 3
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 5
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### Cog Facilities

The following is a list of Merits that can be obtained from each Facility:

#### Sellbot Factory

 Side Factory

*\*Short denotes taking the route with the least amount of Cog Battles required.*

*Long denotes completing every Cog battle in the Factory.*

#### Cashbot Mint

 Dollar Mint
 Bullion Mint

#### Lawfice

 Lawfice B221
 Lawfice C418

#### Cog Golf Course

 Golden Gear
 Diamond Dynamo

*\*Optionals refers to the Cog battles not required to progress through the Golf Course.*

*Entrance battles are the optional battles in the starting room of each hole.*

## Promotions

Merits are needed to gain Promotions for your Cog Disguise. The following is a list of Promotions for all Departments:

## Trivia

* While it's currently impossible to obtain Shares, we know that a level 1 Con Artist would require 160 of them by viewing it on the Cog Disguise page.
	+ Using this value we can calculate the highest Merits value needed of 37,700 Shares for a Head Honcho.
* Patents were originally called Subpoenas before the v1.1.0 Lawbot Revamp Update.
	+ In Toontown Online they were called Jury Notices.
* Invoices were originally called Merits, but this was changed in the v1.2.0 Update as Merits became a catch-all term for promotional units.
* Merits are the quality of being particularly good or worthy, especially so as to deserve praise or reward.
* Invoices are a list of goods sent or services provided, with a statement of the sum due for these; a bill.
* Cogbucks are the only unit that is not based off of a pre-existing term.
* A Patent is a legal document giving the holder exclusive intellectual property rights over a specific invention.
* A Stock Option is a benefit in the form of an option given by a company to an employee to buy stock in the company at a discount or at a stated fixed price.
* Shares are one of the equal parts into which a company's capital is divided, entitling the holder to a proportion of the profits.