I'm somewhere over 10m, not to 13 or 16 tho
why do i suck at TR 2 so much? i dominated #1. Maybe i just have to upgrade things farther first. 
How many times are you using the jewel?
on a good run (+5M) i might use 1 or 2 just because i don't want to start all over again.
the learning curve on the new one isn't steep but there is an adjustment period. i sucked at first but you can see my scores moving up pretty quickly based on the dates of my posts.
the first thing i did was max out my coin magnet thing and then my score multiplier and then my coin value. now i'm fully maxed on everything but shield duration (it's stupid) and head start (it's stupid).