Yoshi P / Dev Team: FAVOR System - Please Fix This BROKEN System

[PirateCat]

So you'd be short by a fair amount if you get average or less drops.
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the HQ turn is too costly since it takes 3 crafting scrips.

These, put together, comprise my point. It's possible that they're intentionally tuning the drop rate on favor items so that you won't get enough to spend all of your crafting scrip tokens on NQ mats. Which means that on average, people will have a few red scrip tokens per week left over, with which their options are to do one of the following.
- Spend some on HQ mat turn ins
- Spend some on skyspring water
- Spend some on straight turn-in gear, or
- Buy favor items from other players.