The issue
PvE farming, mining, harvesting, etc as it is right now can be pretty dull and boring. Your NIC/hour is pretty much the same. Rarely anything happens which would make these professions more exciting.

Box of Joy
The box of joy is a super rare box, which contains rare, valuable items. Drop chance = 1/1000 - 1/10000

It can be received from NPCs, mining, harvesting, incursions, artifact scanning, <add any other money-making professions>

The box may contain stuff like

• T+ modules

• Highly compressed ores/liquids which can be recycled into huge amounts of materials

• Elite distress beacons

• <insert moar shiny stuff>

Artifact scanning kinda used to be like this, that's why I did it for months without getting bored. You never knew if there might be some shiny, valuable Mk2 CT inside.

The issue
PvE farming, mining, harvesting, etc as it is right now can be pretty dull and boring. Your NIC/hour is pretty much the same. Rarely anything happens which would make these professions more exciting.
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This idea is *** but the theory behind it is absolutely sound,. All PVE rely's on the 'Skinner box' theory. For thi to work you need big prizes that drop rarely and randomly to keep people doing those same mundane things over and over. We have t4+ tech and the good mk II ct's to provide mid level but there has to be a few things that are very rare and awesomesauce for people to get.

My recommendations would be for the vanguard mesmer etc mechs to drop as ct's and each ct requires 4 X different module parts as well as mats. Each of the module parts and the ct would drop at extremely low chance from missions and you would require all to build.