Quote Originally Posted by Herby View Post
That was my initial response to matt. Since he wants the cap removed, my response was, "Sure, but remove coins and credits from Banish events too."
A little but of sarcasm there, just read in between the lines.

A per-player cap is a notable idea, but a lot, if not all the top-level players and big spenders would complain once this per-player cap has been reached.
Cries for being unfair, a glass ceiling, letting others catch up, etc etc will flood the forums for a long time.

A per-realm cap is a better idea, as what is implemented. It balances realm population with rewards.
The more players in the realm, the more competition, but more fun and more challenges.
The less players in a realm, the less competition, but less challenges.

You can play in a very active realm in a very active server. You'll gain top guild rewards and bonuses with the amount of contributions made.
You'll experience good camaraderie and socializing with all your guildmates.
But your free rewards from Banish will be harshly fought for, and won't come to you in a silver plate.

You can play in a dead realm on a dead server, and gain a lot from banish.
But there's no one to talk to, no one to compete with, and you'll ultimately be bored out of your wits.
But you get more from Banish since there's no one to compete with.

Do you see what I'm getting to?
So why not use a realm cap AND player cap?

The combination of the two will effectively balance out S1-S10 on one hand and servers like S86 and S103 on the other hand.
Just using will lead to complaining as you have said, while just using realm cap penalize S1-S10 too much.

If you use both, then on one hand the top coiners can still have an advantage, yet the advantage well be reasonable. They need to tweak both caps to achieve a perfect balance. Then you can have certain players on servers like S86 and S103 capping out at 50M coin per banish, while top players on S1-S10 can get about 30-40M coin per banish once they reach 6.25B bosses.

Otherwise your points in this post are very valid, I just failed to pick up your sarcasm earlier.