Sip bonus affects everything; influencing, PvP, PvE. Every time you sip. 5% chance of +150 damage in PvP only does not come even close to comparing.

First, think of all the things/ways we can get a sip bonus. You either have to be faeling/tae'dae/whatever, which has its...quirks, or you have to belong to a commune and take alchemy for the philosopher stone. There's no sip bonus artie, but if there were, it'd be worth at least 300 cr+. Transing alchemy equates to the same, and being faeling has its ups and downs. Generally, what I'm trying to say here is that having a sip bonus entails having to pay quite a sum in order to get the benefits and sometimes, it comes with some pretty hefty downsides. The construct costs 300 marble and 50k (at least ours did), which is positively chump change for any org. In short, they get a sip bonus for what pretty much amounts to nothing.

Now, on top of that, a sip bonus just helps in everything. Insert math about how over time, 7% more sip adds up here. It applies to both pvp and pve as well. Consider the other effects of the constructs. Seren has a slight chance for the foal to protect them, Glom has slight chance for the crow to attack things, Celest has mana regen which is capped, Halli and Gaudi have their own underwhelming effects. In comparison, what Mag has goes far and beyond what appears to be the intent of the admin: to have constructs that are neat in their own way, but should not be viewed as must haves. The only effect which seems to even come to close is Celest's, and having better mana regen is much, much more niche than a better sip and you don't actually die when you run out of mana.

Three of them are pretty tame; two have, as one of their three non-DMP effects, a minor bonus for a specific sub-set of the organization (for the Black Nest, it's a whopping +15 carrion).
Those same two have as another of their effects a passive ability with a very, very low proc rate.
The final effect for those two is +1 movement on one, and a pull-from-the-skies effect for the other.

Then compare that to something that you can actively use to synergize with your guild skills (point for diseases), along with a sip bonus that improves PvP, bashing, influencing... any activity that involves sipping at all.

This is always a bit of an absurd statement. The complaints aren't about punishing a winning org, its about not compounding a mechanical advantage with a snowball effect.

It is a valid concern, from a practical standpoint. There's actually a disincentive to ever join a weaker org, one that keeps growing between domoths, aetherflares, villages, and general combat conditions. It was certainly a part of the factor for me bailing for a Trinity org. And if someone said to me that they wanted to start here, and ask where they should start, I'd push them at Glom- learn to fight behind the org sitting on the top of the pile for two years- and now, with the construct issue, have your org substantially more painful to raid than whoever you yourself are raiding, and don't sacrifice anything into the bargin. As opposed to generally losing fights and being on the wrong side of the above? If the balance of org power in Lusternia hadn't been nearly stagnant for RL years now, this would be somewhat moot. But we need to consider practical concerns like this.

Sip stuff

So far, having tested ours, I think my personal favorite bonus was the 5 DMP, truly. Again, dmp is crap for city warrior trackers so many others would disagree with my preference.

Yes well, I'd rather not have a skill that inferiourly duplicates an ent I have and a bonus that assists a skillset that I don't have. What about that?

(oh, and saving hundreds of credits off getting an extra level on sip arties would be absolutely wonderful.)

level one mana regen is a 300 credit artifact, you could move to celest.

Right or wrong in your point, posting artifacts from other games doesn't hold much weight.

I think it's an apt comparison, considering most of the artifacts that are copied wholesale from Achaea carry the same exact price as they do in Achaea. See: Rune of Absorption, Changeling Cameo, Health/Mana/Ego artifacts, Magic Damage artifacts and so forth. That seems to imply that there is a similar - if not identical - valuation of artifact benefits.

It would be modified downwards a little as the sip bonus is 7% here vs. 10% there. Even being generous though, that's still a minimum base of 300cr per.

More likely they would still sell for between 400-500, even at 7%.

level one mana regen is a 300 credit artifact, you could move to celest.

Nearest equivalent here is the Philosopher's Stone, even though it's been said it's just a sip boost and not an actual level of sipping. That comes to about what, 280cr?