you miss my point. its irrelevent how the player pool/revenue split is calculated, the must be a player pool from which all player returned funds come, from 1pec to an ATH. to not seperate would leave MA an potentially unlimited exposure, say in the event of a bug or hack, to distributing more loot than they have. there may be an indirect effect on an ATH on revenue as players change their behaviour, but we must assume that a large payout in a given week does not direct effect their revenue, and by extension that of the deeds.
of course technically this is speculative, but as said, otherwise the system is irrational and flawed (would you risk a bug wiping you out?)
exactly, from what i understood of MAs official remark, revenue is not part of that pool we get our loot from, but is taken out of the game instantly in the moment its generated through activities. Noone has the chance to get something of that through ATHs and such. As how the other money is distributed one can only take a guess. Some ideas here were that you have your own pool that fills you with the return of up to 90% and the bonus pool that shares the excess lost money like a global lottery. (i.e. 100%-your 90% return -1 % MAs revenue = 9% goes into that pool)