Believe me, if you are speaking about the majority. They are not really aware of the "power" of GBs and FP or all these possibilities you've just mentioned.
Just look around in you main server. What is the percentage of the GBs over lvl 10!?
Come on...
Quite a large percentage in fact on my main server, and you are right in saying that the majority will be under level 10, but then the majority of players are in the lower ages, but even they still particapate in swops etc, as again a large percentage are also on other worlds and like me AF and with level 55 Arc etc elsewhere. So they will and do understand the power of GB's, And since the Arc has been here a lot of players have Arc's in their cities in ages like HMA LMA, etc. I even know of one in Iron age.
I have, and more than once or twice.
Even if there's only a 1% chance of it happening, that is still too much risk for me. I would prefer a 50 FP donation button.
And btw, there are definitely times when I don't want to put all of the FP in my bar onto one thing. For example, if I trade 30 FP daily with 2 people, then the donate all button is not helpful because I collect over 60 FP at once. With the current system I have to click 30x to donate 30/60 FP... or not collect all my FP at once.
Which leads me to my suggestion: allow a custom donation amount (default = all) for the FP in the bar.
Then remove the 1 fp donation button and replace it with a 2 FP one (to correspond with the FP pack)
All you would have to do is enter the amount from your FP bar you wish to donate ie: if you have 60 and want to donate 30 then just enter 30, the box is in the GB donation page not on your FP bar. And get rid of Packs, there is no need for them, just one amount in the inventory, (which the new page just recently disabled was showing the total of FP's you had in your inventory)
actually that is a real danger. Though the probability is low it will still happen. It happens also on the never-ending threads (or GB rings --or whatever the groups call it) that 2 players donate at the same time but then the loss is not that great then in this case.
so yes this can be a very real scenario -- although not a one that will happen often but will happen
(it happened to me that I was donating to a GB at the same time as somebody else
No change there then, all this talk about being beaten to the reward by another (quicker) player is the same as it it now, it happens, you just admitted it has happened to you, so what is the difference if you have a one amount box???