You can say that the tiers are based on efforts and not based on power or real money but even if that's true how can regular players put forth the same effort that diamond players put when they can refill their energy instantly. So instead of higher tier= higher payout cam u make it to where the payout is based a mix of on percentage of wars won and amount of wars participated in...cuz if a weak gang joined all death matches they could and keep getting curbstomped in theory they could war the entire tournament and never get a payout at the end...although they tried
Killer Mike