10k is played for a reason, it is to "try" and balance the factions and units.

Not many enjoy playing a spam army of any type on-line, most peole like to match units to units and make an army effective with all units involved. This is where the fun is in this game. Making an effective attack with different types of units that have a role to play as a larger army.

Shogun was limited to 8k koku because of the 1 unit beating all senario. Valour gain was hard to achieve at this level and made it a challenging game.

MTW was limited to 15k if I remember right because the cav was too strong in swiping other units. So in order to balance that we gave the spear and sword units some edge with more florins. This gave the Italian spears the ability to swipe back.

VI, it was the opposite effect, the higher in florins you went the stronger Infentry became and made cav useless. 5k was taken away to increase the cav power in the game. 10k became the standard, and some would argue 8k games were just enjoyable if not better.

Rome was just a mess of bugs and silly units that could wipe everything out in one charge. CA got their act togather in the patches and fixed the major flaws in the game, but even still some units are still ridiculously over powered. The community tried to balance this with 12.5k and rightly so.

MT2W is here now and we all can see the cav is way too powerfull and we have alot of units with bugs in them, like the 2 handed unit bug with cav. The only 2 handed units working right now are pikes. 10k is the standard to limit the more expensive cav from entering in the game.

If the patch fixes these problems, I can see the florins being raised a bit higher as standard. But I can garrentee that the majority will never play 99999k games because of these problems in balancing units. Like I said, playing spam armies is not the enjoyable part of the game and lacks very little skill.

So 10k is here for a reason, it is to balance the units and to prevent spam armies of over powered units like cav and elephants.

If you like playing with spam armies then so be it, but the majority in the community will stick with the around 10k standard and it will be the standard in all the tournaments being hosted within reason.

Clans play tournaments, tournaments need to be fair and balanced, balanced armies will come by limited florins, therefore the standard for playing the game will be around 10k. There's no way out of it.