Right now, as per the Item Catalogue, there are over 400 different applicators - and that's great news in terms of choice. However, so many of these are massively undervalued, and a large part of that is simply because they're such old bases, and with each passing year, more and more have been accumulated.

Now, this isn't necessarily the case for every old applicator, but it's certainly true for a lot of them, especially for events where apps are easier to purchase/get (looking especially at you, November event).

Let's have a look at some of the oldest event applicators in the game by item ID:

Sacred Body - 8,000+
Sacred Fur - 23,000+
Supernal Body: 8,000+
One with the Giants: 7,000+
Ethereal Body: 10,000+
Ethereal Fur: 29,000+
Skyward Blessing: 6,000+
Penumbra Body: 14,000+
Penumbra Fur: 17,000+
Fossil Fur: 27,000+
Hyena Stripes Heavy: 9,000+
Hyena Stripes Scarce: 9,000+
Curse of Divine: 13,000+
Sunset Markings: 10,000+
Eldritch Immolation: 9,000+
Brimstone Core: 13,000+
Brimstone Imprints: 11,000+
Brawl: 27,000+
Inverted Brawl: 49,000+ (!!)
Touch of Demiurge: 15,000+
Heavenly Serenity: 11,000+

And so on...

Now, of course, having plenty of selection is great, but having so many applicators floating around largely just devalues them - often to the point that many are barely worth more a year later than when they're in the current event shops! And things get even crazier when you look at how many lions have these bases...

From the list above, it's often the case that many of these bases at some point were given out as freebies, and there's nothing wrong with that. But there's just so many, and it really does devalue the applicators to the point that they're worth very little.

So I propose something different: retiring these very old / numerous applicators from the event shops.

I should stress here: this wouldn't stop people applying said bases since the applicators are still in circulation, but since their numbers won't keep spiralling up each year, they'd become more valuable. Once numbers were less oversaturated, they could potentially then be sold again through Monkey Business for SB for a few days, once a year - much like the Gilded app and so on.

I should also point out that it wouldn't stop being able to buy cheap applicators since apps are still released as freebies and craftables and those are often very cheap due to their nature, so new players who may not have much currency can still apply an applicator base.

Moreover, I'm certainly not saying to retire all of them. Maybe just one or two per event per year, so the numbers of apps available to buy would largely still remain stable.

And of course, these bases would still remain in circulation as applicators and breed only bases - but just with slightly more value / demand than they have currently, where the market for applicator base lions is largely dead. No surprise really - bases like demiurge have too many lions to show properly.

Thoughts?