You make the treshold low enough to ensure that the average duke or rich city lord comes up in the list from time to time, but you also enable people who are really hoarding gold to be public knowledge.
The assumption also runs that this would be a realm-limited list. That was not my intention. My intention for this suggestions was to have it be continent-wide, i.e. everyone will know King-Duke-Margrave Bazillion is ridiculously rich.
Why would this even be bad? If people are playing Battlemaster to hoard the most gold on a character, well, they are playing the wrong game. Perhaps opening the knowledge of their wealth to others will allow them to find more uses for their gold.
I had considered that this would have OOC-repercussions, and I'm not even sure that is bad. My intention is to root out the rot from the inside. People hoarding ridiculous amounts of gold ingame who then do nothing with it at all, I call them the rot.
You're willingly putting on blinders in your idealistic zeal based on modern sensibilities... you realize that the Darkans were ridiculously rich AND went to war constantly. How much gold a character or family has is in no way a direct correlation to how much they do or do not contribute to the game. So please stop, we're not a syndicalist commune.
