Vending is fun, especially when you get an old collection item. But most of them are now VERY undervalued. Example: the Sparky, which is now only 100sps. For a collection item! Unbelievable. Can the collection items that vend be rotated or something? A very small number of the same ones seem to be vending - for instance, I've gotten Goldfish Wellies three times during one vending session. Give us some more variety of the older items, please!

It seems intentional. If all of them vended regularly then none of them would be worth much at all. I'd rather that they be significantly more rare than more variety.

There are TONS of collection items though, like 8 or so every month since 2005? That's hundreds, if not thousands of items that could make it less likely to have them drop in price, also yeah, make them a bit more rare to vend. If anything they should be somewhere in the 1 per 500-1000 tokens vended range.

This is the only thing that would motivate me to vend on a consistent basis. Otherwise, I'll just hoard my tokens.

Eh. Looks like the odds of getting special / rare items were tweaked for all the machines on Fireside (so people would actually be able to vend some of the holiday items) and they haven't been placed back to where they used to be. I heard it used to be one special item per 5-8k tokens vended or so and that's consistent with what I've experienced before, but I have never been too regular on vending - either way I know for sure that it was a lot more rare.

I don't know if this was intended, but clearly it's not working well, especially given the extremely limited special item pool. I'm not sure the solution would be enlarging the pool... I think most of the special items weren't excessively rare to begin with, they could've become a tad more common but not a handful per every 1k. Kinda hurts me to say that, because I'm just coming from Prize Get and I vended 2 MVMs within some 1.5k tokens (plus other special items) and it's awesome to be getting so much for my tokens, but I also know this won't last long the way it is :/ Deflation will eventually take its toll. And I'm not even going to mention all the people who may have invested in collection items, just to see them deflated because they're vendable or because of too many MVMs around.

Now, I'd say the odds need to be tweaked back to be "rarer" again, but the one thing that makes me feel torn is that I actually think the "exclusive" items are better as they are now. (Yeah, I'm looking at that apple. I don't know if the riptide became any more common, but I suppose it's very possible.) Collection items were always obtainable from their respective collections / possible giveaways, but exclusive items normally only come from the machines and they promote the generation of a large amount of "unuseful", "dirt cheap" items everyday. The more you vend for the exclusive items, the more all the other items deflate for everyone. That's why I personally would prefer to see them with a high price tag / limited amounts for sale than being ultra rare vends, and it's why I think they're better off now being vendable within a not-so-huge amount of tokens.

I don't see anything bad about token hoarding since I believe the TS should get some cool, expensive items stocked eventually, but that's another deal. For the machines, it'd be nice if special/collection items could have their odds changed back (even if not "entirely back", aka maybe not as rare as before) while keeping the exclusive items a bit more accessible than just something you may see once in a blue moon.

The longterm goal is to remove collection items from vending altogether, as they're CS items and we're trying to focus on making those only reappear from the hustler / etc. Instead we're adding new unique items to each vending machine over time that are still rare / hard to get :)

I don't understand why it has to be a long term goal, why can't it be a change right now before they become even more worthless goal? Gold fish wellies, not even a year ago when I bought them were several million. Now? 130k.

I like that they vend occasionally, why couldn't they have the same rate of vend (or slightly more?) than what the riptide vends (if it still vends anyway).

I agree... if the goal is to remove them from the vending machines why not just remove them now instead of devaluing these items further?

I agree with the above. Based on the fact that people occasionally make threads asking if they broke something when they get a collection item, there's motivation to vend even without them. And 80% of people are hanging out at the Grave Digger machine still trying to get that damn apple anyway (myself included) regardless of whether there are collection items in other machines or not.

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I ❤️love❤️ collection items, potions, super-rare exclusive items in the vending machines. I just think they should be rotated. Everyone likes finding treasure, right? I think its great that each machine will get their own exclusive super-duper-rare item like the apple found in GY. That in itself would bring all the collection items back up to value somewhat as people can only vend so much at a time and with a multitude of machines to target it will be spread out.