Are you fucking kidding me? If you look at the dom watch schedule now there's a battle once every few months. There used to be battles all of the time. You need multiple times more funds than you needed just a few years ago to battle.

The hibden AND mercs changed that. Frankly, saying that mercs didn't change anything regarding how often flights battle is either naïve or it doesn't fit your chosen narrative.

Zero flights are saying "oh, at least we didn't go broke" They are saying, I hope we have enough fucking money to fund the raffle and public buy through the end of the week. It's not that they are trying to hoard the damn money. It's that they are trying to make sure it will last through the battle. If you don't understand that from a dom leader perspective, maybe you shouldn't be leading dom for your flight.