I guess that makes sense but then why not just make it easier to become a mediator? I have heard its a luck based and prolonged proces
Users receive trusted/mediator tags for many reasons but luck is not one of them :
https://forums.d2jsp.org/info.php?p=4That's only for D2r. Everything else has no minimum. I believe d2r only has a 100fg minimum because of they high volume of trades that happen and they don't have the manpower to mediate every single trade. So they have to limit it somehow.
This is my belief on the reasoning as well.