festival shops seem to assume a voucher is equal to 600-1000 pebbles (based on the prices for trinkets and the ashes of loria). in reality, that seems to be closer to like 0.1-1 moonstones or 2500-50k pebbles (based on companion and currency prices in mole market), which checks out, because vouchers are so much harder to get than pebbles (i might try and record how much pebbles vs vouchers you get during the same amount of time)

so right now there's ZERO incentive to spend tickets on anything not unique to festival shops, unless you're like just starting and really low on food and feeling like getting scammed

please change that? it's just annoying how overpriced everything is

Agreed. I have no idea why it's like that. They probably thought it was a decent exchange before, but for basic food items, it's just easier to get those yourself by other means. One ticket is a lot and you really can't afford to spend a single one on anything else especially since they're limited.

I think it is slightly unfair to base the price of vouchers in terms of pebbles, based on the pebble to moonstone ratio which isn't set in stone, but rather a result of the community economy. I do agree however, that apart from the shop exclusive items, vouchers pretty quickly lose their value and use. I already got almost all the companions from the weekly shops, and don't really have anything else to spend it on, making them pretty useless (even without the comparison to moonstone - pebble ratios)

But because the moonstone - pebble ratio fluctuates, and is currently the result of a, in my opinion, very flawed system where moonstones are too difficult to obtain and pebbles have very little use, I don't think changing the voucher prices of items that can also be bought for pebbles based on the current moonstone : pebble ratio is the way to go.

Instead, we need good pebble sinks, we need more ways to obtain moonstones, and I think the shop could do with some extra content. The site is still relatively new so I am sure the devs are already planning the expand the shops' inventories with more items over time, but knuckelbone tokens for example are a very easy addition to the weekly shops (I actually made a suggestion about this just a day or two ago).

I also think that vouchers shouldn't have such a hard daily/weekly limit. I would love it if whatever activity is being celebrated for the week also still occasionally/rarely has a chance to award additional tickets. Making them easier to obtain also makes it easier to spend them.

And lastly, I think the vouchers shouldn't be accountbound. Accountbounding so many items completely stifles the economy, and the economy already isn't in a really good spot due to many other reasons (including the ones I mentioned above).