Not sure how its flawed. Each faction has members willing to spend large amounts of Gold, maybe not top 5 large but still large. if faction events were at most 120 buck (prestige) during a rush through and each member contributed 2 bucks each, you can finish faction. That with time to regen energy means a cheaper or free event if done right. We dont know the numbers on who spends what but factions dont spend because everything is so out of reach. Make everything reasonable, people spend.