Way too early for merges but my server feels the greatest pain we only killed kurama once in a month plus only 2 big groups for GNW and sometimes a random 3rd group with 2 people sign up. When merges do come I feel that my server will be extremely far behind considering we get way less experience and coins compared to servers that kill kurama.

level cap or not coins are the bigger problem

cause theres a huge difference of how many coins you get from killing 9 tails to not killing it in the long run a server who always kills it compared to one who doesn't will have way more coins in the long run.