So, my server was discussing this and we figured the god bases (Anubis, Seth and Bast) were a bit costly for how much event beetles are dropped.

You get 2 Khepri Beetles per encounter.
and 10 completed for daily quests.

I took a brief (and maybe not 100% accurate survey) from my clan's discord server and the majority of people are under 10 KBs at the moment.
Of course, they haven't completed their quests yet.
I myself am at 83 KBs with 3 left from last year.
**Note: I used a Roasted Lamb today

I think 500 COULD be reasonable, but from what I remember last year. I only got about 1000-1500 KBs and I was on DAILY doing quests and such.
That's enough to afford 2-3 of the applicators.
But keep in mind, not everyone can be on every second of the day trying to beat the heck out of snakes xD

Doing quests without missing a day, would be +10 KBs everyday.
That's 300 KBs doing every daily quest without missing one, give or take a few.
God bases are 500 KBs per base.
That's 100 battles you need to complete to be able to grab ONE god base + every daily quest without missing one.

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6/7/19: Little update to this given the recent news post:

Now with more than 4 accounts linked to an IP, any more than 2 users in a household will not be able to have a side account. All the more reason for this to be bumped. Those users are now at a disadvantage.

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My proposal is to either:

A) Lower the amount of KBs that the god bases cost to 300-400 somewhere.
Edit: People seem to be in agreement that the cost of these applicators should be more like 250-300, as stated by people on my discord server and in the comments as well.

B) Increase KB drop from fighting snakes to maybe 4-5 perhaps?

C) Maybe both?

I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts.
If you disagree, please give some helpful criticism to make this suggestion better for everyone.