I'm kind of tired of the "gacha" on the Cosmic Exploration worlds.

[Ankhira]

I understand that the RNG is there to stretch out the content, but the actual experience of engaging with it just isn’t rewarding. Spending 10–15 minutes gathering drone bit chests only to turn them in to get fireworks, materia, or minions worth less than 50 gil doesn’t feel rewarding at all.

Cosmic Fortune has the same issue. For two planets now, I’ve ended up buying the items from the market board because all I ever pull are prisms, materia, or furniture.

And before anyone says “the content has only been out for three days” this is the exact same "reward" loop that's been there for two planets now. It consistently feels unrewarding no matter which planet you engage with it.

Again, I understand why the system exists, but could we at least get some form of bad‑luck protection? Something similar to what you implemented for the First Light relic rewards in Pilgrim’s Traverse?

Maybe for every "bad" reward be it the materia, prisms, fireworks, you get a counter and if the counter reaches x you are guaranteed to get one of the rarer rewards?

[Loggos]

I agree, I think they should implement a pity system at least. Maybe SE thinks because there's "no real money" involved they don't need a pity system. But time is also valuable (+ it's also sub money) and if you collect credits and drone bits over and over again and don't get anything out of it then at some point you start to think why bother. You could use that time to do content that's more fun.

[GypsumFantastic]

I spent a full day doing the gold gathering loop until I had enough gold for 40 dronebits, I got the following artifacts:

29 bronze
10 silver
1 gold

and the breakdown of the rewards:

Bronze Ancient Record Exchanges
1 small angler's canvas
1 gravel golem
1 tiny tatsunoko
1 atrophied Atomos
1 cup of competent craftsman's tisane
1 vial of cordial
1 extra large angler's canvas
1 cup of cunning craftsman's tisane
1 baby brachiosaur
1 tiny tatsunoko
1 large angler's canvas
1 miniature white knight
1 small angler's canvas
1 kidragora
1 gatherer's guerdon materia XII
1 gatherer's grasp materia XI
1 gravel golem
1 vial of cordial
1 square of garden gravel
1 cup of cunning craftsman's tisane
1 copy of Ballroom Etiquette - Uncouth Congratulations
1 clockwork barrow
1 gravel golem
1 vial of watered cordial
1 potion rack
1 iron dwarf
1 paissa brat
1 craftsman's command materia XII
1 cup of commanding craftsman's tisane

Silver Ancient Record Exchanges
1 copy of Ballroom Etiquette - Well Bread
1 gatherer's guerdon materia XII
1 private moai
1 private moai
1 wind-up dullahan
1 castaway chocobo chick
1 Major-General cushion
1 hanging lure display
1 hanging lure display
1 private moai

Gold Ancient Record Exchanges
1 copy of Modern Aesthetics - Modern Legend

I think I'll just wait for the mount to drop in price on the marketboard, like Yan

[GraceHorizon]

When it first came out I nicknamed Cosmic Fortunes “The Wheel of Pain” but it’s ended up not so bad for me. On both Sinus Ardorum and Phaenna I ended up getting everything from it while I upgraded my tools and ground cosmocredits for the purchasable one-time items and various dyes. That’s mild good luck, but if I had been unlucky the deterministic grind would have also given time for anything I particularly wanted to come down in price on the market board. I have not checked out the new dronebit system on Oizys, but I suppose time will tell if it’s better or worse than Cosmic Fortunes.

[Jeeqbit]

Isn't the "bad luck protection" buying it from the market board?

[SalamanderIX]

I don't want a pity system, that would just make it more of a gatcha. Just get rid of some of the junk like normal cordials/water cordials and replace them with hi-cordials, stuff like that. Attach a flat reward to them like some cosmic credits.

[Gurgeh]

Isn't the "bad luck protection" buying it from the market board?

Isn't the market board the "I-just-don't-want-to-touch-this-content" option?

(Yes it is) It's also the "we-have-no-shame-about-the-lack-of-appeal-of-our-content,-to-all-but-the-botters/(maybe even RMTers),-and-mod-cheats" option.

[yesnt]

Isn't the "bad luck protection" buying it from the market board?

I built my FC workshop only to farm Gil so I can buy rewards like these, which means that I am not engaging with the content that much anymore, which means the game becomes stale and obsolete. If Winterers expansion doesn't drastically change this course, then I might lose any reason to stay subscribed. So yeah, I hope they will implement some actual FUN mechanics cause just buying MB rewards is not a real solution.

[Kaurhz]

Isn't the "bad luck protection" buying it from the market board?

That's not really a bad luck protection as much as it is "I don't want to touch this content"

and using market board as a cop out excuse for not improving a miserable system is not really a good precedent to create.

[ServerCollaps]

the items will be worthless within a week anyway, so why even bother

wait a few days and buy them for 100k, lol