Yes we have considered this point and put the removing of the Top-3-bonus into this proposal, so that smaller guild will earn more crowns in the future (if this proposal pass).
Maybe you don't understand how it works exactly, so let me explain you:
At the moment the rewards are shared into two pots:
12% for the Top-3-finished as bonus.
88% for all guilds (including the top-3-guilds)
With this this change Crowns and Merrits will be shared:
100% for all guilds without any bonus for the top-3
in fact guilds who finish from place 4 to 10 will receive 14% more crowns and merrits than they get now at the expense of the top 3 guilds.
I got it mate. Two of my three accounts play in top guilds that can't currently afford to move up a tier. This new rule will further minimize our earning potential and make it even harder to move up, as we constantly place in the Top 3. Again, it isn't a lack of incentives that keep us from moving up, it is a lack of DEC/GP and crowns (which we'll earn less of).
In each of the guilds, I've always been an advocate of trying to move up as soon as possible, but my guildmates are not willing/able to invest the DEC to make it happen. Maybe you're right that passing this proposal incentivizes them to invest more to move up, but I'm concerned that it will have the opposite effect and slow down donations more since we are earning less in the Top3. Only one way to find out though.
Maybe you can then see it as a (small) sacrifice for the entire ecosystem, because the guilds in places 4-10 will receive higher rewards in the future if the proposal is successful, so nothing is lost, it's just distributed more fairly and the DPS bonus What will remain for the top 3 is the top 3 bonus for Crowns and Merrits.
I see your point of view and even the value of your proposition, but it just doesn't cut it for me. Maybe once we get to Tier 5 I will change my tune. I assume you are part of the German contingent of the Legendary guilds.
No I am not part of the "German contingent" I play in Peakmonsters Premiere.
So if you see it from this point of view I cut my own rewards cause we normally reach a top-spot in Tier 4, last brawl we had the Immortal Gods in our brawl, so we got second place.
If I would act selfish I would say "Let this Top-3-bonus - I personally has an advantage from it."
But this is not my point and I put a healthy economy without Distortion of competition over my personal interest.