So, after finishing some last minute grind for the PVE sub that just ended, I had a few of the standard recruit tokens to dump into ISO. Walked away with 3* Thor green and 3* Human Torch black, making 3-4 recruit tokens better than my 10 packs from three PVP seasons. Anyone else noticing better drops or did I just get blessed by the Random Number God?
And lo did RNGesus look favorably upon them and lo did he thus bless them with covers that lackethed thine bagmen.
Oh hell no!!!.. I feel the exact opposite (and so do my team mates). I have had recently approximately 15 silver tokens and roughly 5 gold. AND EVERY SINGLE one produced 1 star covers or the occasional 2 star that I already had maxed out. Before this I would have at least gotten two or three 3 star covers with that many tokens.. it now appears silver no longer gives out 3 star and the rates have DROPPED DRASITCALLY to almost comically levels.. (no pun intended.)
I’ve kept a count am am at 41 straight standard tokens with nothing higher than a 2*. I’ve asked my alliance to let me know if someone gets a 3 or 4* from a standard token since it’s been so much longer than normal for me and no one has gotten gold in some time. I haven’t read that drop rates have changed so this could just be a run of bad luck. It’s not like the devs would do something to make resources/covers harder to come by.
I last day open around 18 standard tokens and had two very useful Gold from them… so is likely you only have bad luck
The token drops rates are a lie. While standard tokens do give mostly 1*, in the past week I’ve drawn 1 Bag-Force 4* and 2 3* (both unusable). Meanwhile, 3 out of 3 event tokens for The Hunt have given me Ares, making it a 100% rate.
I almost feel like should build a second Ares, but considering as my next roster slot will cost 500hp, I better just collect Bagman so I won’t be too sad when TPTB release a new character and I have to abandon Bagman in the woods.
Token drop rates in general are annoying. My buddy that I started with gets a 3* with just about every Heroic-esque token. I finish higher than him in just about every event but he’s wayyy ahead of me in the 3* race because he pulls them left and right, including some in Standard packs.
I started tracking on 6/20. I’m 1 for 147 with getting a 3*+ out of standard tokens.
Of course, in that same time I’ve been running scorching hot with the 2* tokens, so I’m good.
Definitely much easier on my personal sanity since I started keeping track.
ive been cashing in my tokens at 25 a pop and ive gotten 1 3* for each batch. I tried to do 50 at one time as well and got 2. ive only done this 5 times (125 tokens) though so not sure how accurate that is.. 
I think its just RNG being an absolute P.I.T.A as usual…
I’ve noticed with standard tokens its like playing the slots in Vegas, depending on your luck you can either get a lot of gold cards, or end up with a whole lot of nothing…
I recently pulled a gold 3* from a standard token after a bit of a drought, and now it seems im back in that drought waiting for the RNG Gods to smile down on me and gimme some of those gold covers i desperately need 
Computers are actually very bad at generating honest-to-goodness random numbers. They tend to get stuck in trends - so the overall effect is that the numbers are random but only in the very long run. In the short term, you’ll get a long run of bad luck until it gets to the point of ridiculousness, then you’ll get a run of good luck. Of course, we tend to notice the bad more than the good.
I’ve been tracking my standard covers for a while now (I’ll update the shared master spreadsheet in a bit.) Out of 383, here’s my current breakdown:
Stars - Covers - Percent
- ------309 ---- 80.7%
** ----- 63 ----- 16.4%
*** ---- 11 ---- 2.9%
**** ---- 0 ---- 0%
I actually didn’t think you could get **** on a standard token, but did someone here say they got one? If the chance is less than 1%, then getting 0 out of nearly 400 is still definitely well within the range of possibility.
Incidentally, I’m on one of those “bad luck runs” right now. I haven’t gotten a rare in over two weeks and I haven’t gotten a ** in the last 20 or so…
Agreed - which is why I save up tokens to open in bunches. When I have 50+, I will start opening 5 at a time. If I get good draws, 5 more. Bad draws and I wait a day, let the trends change.
My standards are in a really bad spot right now. Out of the last 50 opened, the best was a 2* Thor that was quickly sold for ISO. Guess it’s time to just bank them, wait a couple of weeks, and see if there is any kind of improvement??
Also, that 2* Thor was the only 2* drop out of the bunch.