diff --git a/dripoffers.js b/dripoffers.js
index e09029b..ba83bb4 100644
--- a/dripoffers.js
+++ b/dripoffers.js
@@ -25,18 +25,26 @@
 //  3. A SYNDICATION HICCUP NEVER BLOCKS THE MEMBER. Callers swallow errors; the IAP campaign
 //     goes live either way.
 //
-// Capacity note (2026-09-18): the offerwall is a menu, not a rotator - every eligible campaign
-// is listed at once, ordered by reward, and the member chooses. So adding campaigns does not
-// starve the others the way the AdRevLinks rotator does; it lengthens the menu. What is finite
-// is total clicks, running around 2,700 a day across the whole platform. Hence MAX_CLICKS
-// below: one campaign booking 50,000 clicks would sit in the list for weeks. Cost is not the
-// reason for the caps - Marty owns the platform and treats these placements as free.
+// Capacity note (2026-09-18, corrected same day): the offerwall is a menu, not a rotator -
+// every eligible campaign is listed at once, ordered by reward, and the earner chooses. So
+// adding campaigns does not starve the others the way the AdRevLinks rotator does; it
+// lengthens the menu.
+//
+// What is finite is total clicks, and the real figure is SMALL: the permanent click ledger
+// shows roughly 40-50 clicks A DAY across the whole platform. (An earlier read of 2,700/day
+// was wrong - it came from campaigns.received_today, which is only a daily figure while the
+// nightly cron resets it, and that reset has stopped running.) Pack 2 puts our offers above
+// the house campaigns, and they are indeed taking the large majority of that trickle.
+//
+// Hence a deliberately small MAX_CLICKS: at this volume a 10,000-click booking would sit at
+// the top of the list for most of a year and crowd everything else out. Cost is not the reason
+// for the caps - Marty owns the platform and treats these placements as free.
 'use strict';
 const https = require('https');
 const { URL } = require('url');
 
 const MIN_CREDITS = Number(process.env.DRIPOFFERS_MIN_CREDITS || 1000);   // below this, not worth a listing
-const MAX_CLICKS = Number(process.env.DRIPOFFERS_MAX_CLICKS || 10000);
+const MAX_CLICKS = Number(process.env.DRIPOFFERS_MAX_CLICKS || 2500);
 const MIN_CLICKS = 500;                                                   // the platform's own floor
 const PACK_ID = Number(process.env.DRIPOFFERS_PACK_ID || 2);              // 2 = a 10-second dwell
 const USER_ID = Number(process.env.DRIPOFFERS_USER_ID || 1);              // the funding account
diff --git a/qa/dripoffers-bridge.mjs b/qa/dripoffers-bridge.mjs
index 6e722cc..0bdf8bd 100644
--- a/qa/dripoffers-bridge.mjs
+++ b/qa/dripoffers-bridge.mjs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ t('tier 1+2 merges both lists', drip.countriesFor('1,2', tiers) === 'US,CA,GB,BR
 // worldwide would deliver the Tier 1 traffic its owner deliberately excluded
 t('tier 3 alone is skipped, not silently widened', drip.countriesFor('3', tiers) === null, String(drip.countriesFor('3', tiers)));
 
-t('credits convert to clicks one for one', drip.clicksFor(4000) === 4000, String(drip.clicksFor(4000)));
+t('credits convert to clicks one for one', drip.clicksFor(2000) === 2000, String(drip.clicksFor(2000)));
 t('one campaign cannot swallow the platform', drip.clicksFor(500000) === drip.MAX_CLICKS, String(drip.clicksFor(500000)));
 // the offerwall title a stranger actually reads (the platform's floor is 5 characters)
 const T = (c, u) => drip.titleFor(c, u || 'https://www.mailer.gold/x');