You can't change up the prizes by location for the same event (such as States) because you don't know how many people will show up until the day of the event.
You could do an educated guess, ship a bit more, and if it still isnt enough the shop keeper gives out his own stuff (and gets it back from pui) or prices will be send via mail.
Plus, if you dump extra prizes into one event, if there's anybody that has about equal driving distance between one better prized State and another less prized State, which one do you think they'll go to?
The same that they'd go to if there would be no prices at all...
It'll just drive that one locations attendance up further, drop the attendance at ones around it, and then you have a self-fulfilling prophecy.
And it would be different if prices would be the same? Tournaments in the same area that are on the same date are another problem and should be avoided if possible, but that doesnt really have anything to do with the prices. And why should there be "one" tournament in this area that pulls everyone while the others stay small?
When it comes right down to it, I find it hard to believe that people that are all ZOMG MORE
PRIZES NOW PLZKTHX understand how the entire budget thing works. TPCi assigns the budget to POP for the year for prizes; it's not like the OP side of the world sits there thinking about how they can "hose" the players. Unless TPCi decides that the OP budget needs to be changed, you'll never see additional prizes, just shifting around of what prizes there already are.
And if we think that the budget is too small / not well used we can still complain can we? I dont really care about any budged, I just see that prices are unreasonable and this is what I am pointing out. Hopefully someone from PUI will read this and maybe he'll think about it and maybe I'll change something, nmaybe they'll get a bigger budget, maybe they'll use it more reasonable, or whatever.(just like before when all the mean, evil, puppy eating, greedy players complained that the cards that they already got would be banned, while everyone was telling us that we had no right to complain and basically no rights at all... :nonono
If they want me to help with this I'd gladly do it but otherwise THIS is their thing to take care of. And btw, I highly doubt that some extra boxes would leave some real marks in PUIs budget.
[edit] Oh, and any suggestion that goes for increasing the number of days an event takes is even more ignorant of the budget issue - that would require the PTOs to fork out more money for venue rental. Good luck convincing them to do that. TPCi doesn't rent the space for the PTOs (as far as I know. Even if they did, that's more money that's gotta come from somewhere, and where would it be from? Either the prize fund or you'll see entrance fees magically appearing. Wouldn't that go over well?)
But is it the players fault that something goes so out of proportions that it just doesnt work anymore? People dont complain because they've got nothing better to do, they complain because they feel that a time limit is destroying in important event, that prices make a tournament look ridiculus etc. And when the game grows so big that a tournament has to have an extra day, shouldnt there be an increase in player numbers as well? And should the budged be adjusted tothe player numbers?
