The less mana you give out, the more valuable it is, and the opposite is true. So if you give your mana to 1 person and 1 person only, it's more special than someone who has given their mana to 4 people.
Rick gets my se... I mean mana. Actually I've kinda been a mana slut on here so my mana is about as meaningful as a $5 blow jobOh man I'm in trouble then. LOL
If there was 10 members, it would take all of the other 9 to give you mana to fill your mana bar.
Each person giving you mana would fill 11% of your mana bar.
Now if you only got 5 members to give you mana, your bar would be ~55% full, but ONLY if they gave you and only you mana (and you returned the favor).
But lets say 1 member gave mana to 3 other people. You only get 25% of their mana. So you only got 2.5% of your bar filled by them. Now say another person gave mana to one other person, you get 50% of their mana (5.5% of your bar).
But everyones mana is directly based on how much mana they recieved. So if you never recieved any mana, you have very very little to give, and your mana donation means very little. But if you have everyone's mana, you have more of an impact on each person's mana whom you give mana to.