I was thinking of this, and there are several ways to encourage strong token sales each year (which it seems is necessary for the financial health of True Dungeon). One way is offering incentives, like the Golden Ticket Package, while another is making significant changes to the token makeup each year, with a bunch of new tokens added each year (like Elven Chain this year) that collectors want, and yet another is the Combo Tokens, which encourages players to get complete sets of tokens each year because they don't know which tokens will be needed in future Combos. <br /><br />The one I was thinking about in this thread is the Artisan Token Auctions. They will certainly do a good job of relieving 18 people (probably less with the likelihood of proxy bidders) of a lot of gold, but does that really relieve the token glut for the majority of collectors, that might discourage those collectors from making big purchases in future years? I was thinking of this because, while I'm certainly not one of the biggest token buyers, I now have pretty much all the non-Purple tokens I'll ever need, and it'll be much harder for me to justify paying hundreds of dollars for tokens each year in the future if I'm just getting more and more of all the tokens I already have - and I'm probably not the only one thinking that. <br /><br />Many people have pretty much all the Very Rares, Rares, and Commons they'll ever need, so the main incentive for buying future tokens is to try to get that Ultra-Rare, while at the same time they are getting yet more multiples of the tokens they already have. I can think of two changes to the auctions that might help thin out peoples token collections, which would help encourage them to buy more tokens in the future.<br /><br />One is to allow people to bid using ALL tokens, not just gold and gems. They could use the price guide prices on gold values for the items, either at full guide value or possibly decremented by a percentage (like say they can be used for 75% of the guide price of non-gold/gem tokens for auctions) to still give gold and gems a premium value. This would give people an avenue to get rid of their excess tokens each year, freeing them up to buy lots more tokens the next year without worrying about what they'll do with all the large quantities of multiples they'll likely get, that they can't really trade because everyone else has all those multiples also. It could be streamlined by only allowing Very Rares and Rares, or by just giving a standard trade-in value for commons (like 3 GP per common). <br /><br />The other way (and these two ways work well together) is to increase the number of auctions. Say, for instance, having all 18 Artisan tokens each night for three nights, and possibly auctioning off a Purple set as well (maybe 1/3 of the set each night) - one more of each purple in circulation wouldn't really throw make much difference, but it would add a lot of spice to the auctions. Tripling the amount of Artisan Tokens in the auction would allow many more people the opportunity to get one, it would give one or two enterprising people a reasonable chance to eventually complete a set of them, and it would get a LOT of tokens out of more peoples collections.<br /><br />I think the combination of these two - increasing the number of auctions each year and allowing ALL tokens to be used in auctions, would help True Dungeon financially because it would encourage people to buy more tokens each year because they wouldn't have a glut of tokens, and they would know they could use any extra tokens they did get in future auctions. And of course, all the other motivating factors mentioned in the first paragraph (and others I didn't mention) could still be used. <br /><br />Of course this would end up with Jeff having thousands of tokens on his hands, but one thing he could do with them is add them to the treasure chests and allow groups more random token picks from the chest as they go through the dungeon, which would really increase the perceived value of each dungeon run and the amount of fun groups have in the dungeon, and afterwards as they sort the treasure. <br /><br />Those are just some thoughts to spark discussion, and for Jeff & the Board of Directors to consider. I'd enjoy hearing everyone's thoughts on the matter.