So with not much time to really conceptualize and pen out structured realm encounters, as well as all of the wiring, I still find that if I had some way to easily engage with the moderators and make tweaks to realms post release, that this could have great effects for the game.
The big example is that instead of relying on people to improve on their realms by putting large chunks of effort into entirely new realms, that they could just use the given feedback and reiterate on their already designed realms. An example of were this is effective...Look no further then chaos reborn itself, a product that receives iterative updates post release.
Might not be perfect parallels but as a new player, i think i'd rather play a more polished realm that received some feedback then just playing something and hoping i don't get lost from some bad directions and have only a 0 star rating to show for it.
This can also be handy as more tweaks are made to realms. Being able to rename all of my mercs in the older realms would be a nice touch.
Certain limitations might be needed: perhaps anything more then adjusting realm encounter text, giving mercs names, or taboos (maybe stacked taboos in the future?) could be the limit, to mitigate high score ratings. Just release the realm back up with the existing high score charts.
I feel the biggest barrier removal could just be giving the moderator the ability to take realms off of the list to pass back to the player. As i understand it now, the snapshot staff has to do it, but if this was removed, it could help the game alot.