I wanted to know others thoughts on collecting Legendary people, weapons, and outfits?

I recently started playing the game about 3 weeks ago on my Android phone. I was really excited as the Fallout franchise has been one of my favorite game series. Took me a bit to get the hang of the vault. I ended up deleting my first vault and starting over. My 2nd vault is doing well. It's organized well, I haven't overbuilt, and at this point I always have 10 max stat folks in the wasteland with good gear.

Up until a few days ago I enjoyed getting to this point even with the ups and downs. I am a collector and I am the kinda of person that tries to do and get everything in a game. So, it's really bugging me that other than lunchboxes it's impossible to get Legendary people and since they nerfed the National Guard Depot same can be said for Legendary items pretty much (wasteland drops are ridiculously rare). At this point my "free to play game" is really not free to play. Sure I can get lunchboxes through challenges but at this point after opening 50-75 lunch boxes I have yet to get a single legendary person or weapon, just 4-5 outfits. Maybe if the game offered some sort of end game other than just having a big vault and/or just collecting everything I wouldn't be frustrated at this point. This is the first mobile game I have spent money on in a long time (3 mister handys) and I am kinda of feeling like I got jipped. Am I missing a better way to get Legendary's (without glitching or cheating)? Help Please?

Essentially, EVERY lunchbox has 4 cards.

1-. Caps card

2-. Resource card

3-. Weapon or outfit card

4-. Rare card

The first three cards appear in a random order, (you can get the resource card first, and so on), suitable cards (caps, weapon/outfit) can be rare or legendary, but at a very slim chance.

The forth one (Rare card) is the one you want. You can get the infamous 500 caps rare card, a weapon, an armor, or a dweller. all of them at the same chance (25%). Then, your dweller here has a 90% chance to be rare, or a 10% to be a legendary one.

Thus, chances are 1/4 (dweller rare card) * 1/10 (legendary dweller) = 1/40 chance to get a legendary dweller on a lunchbox

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The only non-cheating, non-glitching way to improve your chances is by scum-restoring a save with lunchboxes. Essentially, you get a lunchbox, you backup your save, then open the lunchbox; if you don't like the results, you just restore your save from the backup location and try again until you get something you like. Since you don't mess with timestamps or so on, is "somewhat legit".

legendary rare is supposed to be very rare.... also special dwellers. i think it's ok this way.... takes a lot of time i know but hey that's the game. it's like pokemon cards... [censored]... more [censored]... shahp give me a good pokemon

I appreciate the long reply. I have read about time glitching but not the save thing you mentioned. Reloading saves sounds safer than glitching, but still seems like cheating to me.... I am about done with this game now, it's sad I feel like it had so much potential. Between lack of end game, the bugs, and now lack of being able to viably collect things without cheating I will probably stop playing soon. Very disappointed in Bethesda. Still cant believe I wasted money on this.

I have gotten power armor, a minigun and Amata Amoldovar from challenges after playing two or three weeks. Amata came with a legendary gun also. That is fine by me since the only thing a legendary gives you is an icon on the item record, there is no functional point to them since the game is so incredibly easy anyway. I doubt anyone has filled that up, and I couldn't care less about such stuff. It is just kind of fun to see if you get that golden glow on the last card.

If you feel really horribly disappointed that you can't get all the badges, I would say FOS is not a good game for you! But you can fulfil the whole potential of the game other than that so it is not pay to play. And if you play for a year you might even fill up all the slots.