Ok lets be honest
Its all RNG

so what you are seeing could just be RNG issues

Remember back in evony
when we could glitch fb posts and get like 40 or 50 ammies a day for free
there would be days you would get a lot of great stuff and days you would get all crap. Granted teh days you got all crap were much more then the days you got a bunch of great stuff.

SO while I get exactly what deuc is saying, if its true bad call on the devs part. Maybe a compromise of going half way bewteen what you did originally and the change in terms of costs of chips and value of items.

But it could all just be RNG and after a few more days you could see the balance.