This, added to the fact it was a one-off for the 10th birthday of Habbox Rare Values which is why I proposed in the first place. :)
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but that doesn't happen anyway. It'd be like making a rule for no reason than to have a rule. Creating rules based on an unrepresentative sample doesn't seem very wise to me. Personally, I've always thought a prize can be as big as it wants but managers/AGMs can be trusted to be sensible to know where to draw the line and if you want to go any higher than that line then you need to 'donate' it yourself rather than it being artificially added so at least there is some balance there. It seems to have been the case here until it slipped through the net.
In short, no need for a cap when managers already implement their own.
we usually would step in if a prize is too much and people often discuss their prize beforehand and told if its too much (like Chris PMed Dan to tell him that 20k tokens was too much before the event, but it wasn't followed through on).
We always get managers asking us what prize is appropriate for their event, especially big ones!
Yes that's true so a cap is even more unnecessary!
I'm pretty sure the Competitions Department gave around 2 1/2 years worth of VIP for one competition when the baftas or Oscars or something was on. Perhaps a rule doesn't necessarily need to be written down, but it's just common sense not to go over the top.
Unless you're running an internal department event. In which case Matt will give you the all clear to give out as much VIP as you want. Case in point: I gave out something like three years of VIP as content manager in one go for a bunch of work which still isn't (And might never be) publicly viewable.