That seems like a mistake. It should just be 0.5% of the effective bankroll. Otherwise if the average leverage is over 5x then everyone ends up less leveraged than they asked to be. A regular unleveraged investor could end up risking way less than the 0.5% of their investment per roll that they wanted to risk.
How is it significant in any way?
as soon as you put the investment in the site you accept to see it lost in case of a lucky run.
Unleveraged investors presumably want to be risking 0.5% of their investment to a max-profit bet. But the 2.5% limit means that doesn't happen. How is that not significant? It means investors are risking less than they expect to, and suffering reduced expected bankroll growth as a result.
Your comment about accepting loss is irrelevant here. It is unrelated to what I was saying.
We added "2.5% of the real bankroll" limit quite late once we saw that max per-bet profit sky-rocketing as more and more investments were being opened with x10 leverage. This was obviously to limit variation a bit and keep site profit a bit more predictable.
"Site profit" doesn't matter. Individual player profits matter, and individual investor profits matter, but the sum of them really doesn't mean anything, not even to the site's collection of commission.
Still, investments with x10 have exactly ten times larger share in site profit. x1 investments are what they are - you invest your exact amount, without any leverage, and your investment will never be closed due to a loss.
Yes, but the 1x investor is expecting to be risking up to 0.5% of their investment per roll, but only getting something like half of that due to the 2.5% limit.
We might limit the actual leverage to x5 max and remove this "2.5%" condition at some point, it would make things a bit easier. But we haven't decided on this yet.
I don't see why you wouldn't simply remove the 2.5% limit. It's not helping anyone: it reduces the maximum bet size for players, makes investors risk less than they signed up for, and reduces the site's expected commissions.
Having said that, it's your site of course, and you're free to run it how you like. I just don't understand.
