Lack of xmas collectables ... again!

[Teardrop46]

day 4 ....i do 2 sets each day of collectibles i have so been able to do Just 1 " basket of presents " at this rate i will be lucky if i am able to do 3 let alone 5 !

As today i Only found candy canes and bells in Both sets of collectibles out of 9 i found 5 candy canes and 4 bells (1st) and 6 candy canes and 3 bells on 2nd spawn.

i do plenty of work and have loads of patience i also find Every collectible out of All spawns.
It is good we have a guarantied amount each spawn and i am not after half and half but really gingerbread is just a nightmare to find and far TOO expensive to buy !!

[SSSecretSquirrel]

you can trade bells for gingerbreads 1:1 pretty easily
if you keep at it 2 full spawns a day you are pretty much guaranteed 5 needed for the achievement.

[HFoC]

...which is 378 for all days they spawn, if you catch the third timer as well it's 567 xmas colls in total. To make 5 baskets you just need 125 of each (375 total).

no, 9 collectables containing 2 items each = 18 items per spawn
18 items x 3 spawns/day = 54 items/day
x 21 days = 1134

378 if you can do only 1 spawn per day, 756 with 2 spawns

[Kanagomi]

116 canes
58 bells
58 gingerbread

[Budgy]

10 / 84 / 24, already made 2 baskets. This didn't help: click

[BB_Saqui]

Thanks for the reports (especially collectable numbers)! We're investigating this!

[Bobblyt]

managed to get 2 spawns/day giving me 54 bells, 160 candy, 74 ginger bread

[lordloocan]

Thanks for the reports (especially collectable numbers)! We're investigating this!

It was repeatedly reported last year and nothing has changed. At the end of the 2016 Christmas event the guild sent me all their leftover collectibles so we could then make presents. What a shock, we had thousands and thousands of candy canes left.

[SmurfAsH]

Thanks for the reports (especially collectable numbers)! We're investigating this!

Really? For what reason? To keep "balancing" the flow of presents?

Why not just make it work as it used to do pre-2015?
This 28/44/28:ish-ratio is doing no good.

[Madorosu]

Thanks for the reports (especially collectable numbers)! We're investigating this!

Whilst I appreciate that someone is finally looking at this, with respect, why has this not been the subject of investigation long before now? This is not the first Christmas Event this has happened. I went into this event knowing full well that I would need to trade for Gingerbread and Christmas Bells and that I could leave the Candy Canes to take care of themselves. I surprised quite a few of my guild mates when I told them I had just started making my fifth basket of presents after only a few days of the event because I had put my knowledge of how collectibles spawned during the previous two Xmas events to good use.

Anyway, I have been keeping track of my numbers since the very first spawn of the event. I've managed to catch three spawns per day and the number of Candy Canes spawning has been roughly as much as the other two combined consistently through the event. My numbers to date are as follows:

122 x Christmas Bell
254 x Candy Cane
119 x Gingerbread

This is number of lots that have spawned on my island, with each lot putting two items into stores - as per the Dev Diary.