I haven’t changed anything this picture shows a max contribution for each person. It’s not a daily max it’s an overall max donation based on the chest spot.
In this example, Marikki's max contribution is 60 kps (total) not daily. 60kps is the total amount Marikki has to donate to that wonder for the top chest. Once they have reached 60 kps they don't add a single kp more.
Soggyshorts, keeps saying that a group with less than 5 people is a waste of kps because two chests weren't claimed,
yet I just showed you this. Yes, 9 people is better than 5 because the total amount of kp to upgrade is shared by 9 people versus only 5. In the above example, if there were 4 more people in the group, then everyone's total contribution is reduced.
But what you said about having plenty of runes, on occasion, we chose a skip to let someone else who did not have enough runes take the top spot. It's very altruistic of you. But skipping a top spot, wouldn't cause you to lose your place with your wonder being upgraded, which seems like what the wonder society would do.
I believe kp instants were added to the game because of the teams that were being set up 1kp, 3 kp 5 kps etc and that someone could always join a team and have a few kp instants to keep up with their team members and to keep up with their research.I hope this helps explain it better.