Flights are already hemorrhaging money to pay for raffles and public buys. Why should they be forced to also pay for mercs just because people want more profit on top of the profit they would get by selling to a public buy? I'm saying this as someone who frequently profits off of mercing. If someone wants to pay more for dragons, let them. But flights shouldn't be required to budget them in if they don't want to. It takes resources and volunteers away from other flight efforts. You can't blame any flight for not wanting to spend that kind of money for dragons they can get cheaper through other channels.