In a lot of the seasons, the difference between parts and miners has been determined by your own room, your league, and other factors. With the latest RollerCoin exploit wrecking the market, though, it's caused a lot of shifts in the value of things.

To put it into perspective, this was half the value prior to the exploit taking place. Furthermore, there's also the benefit of parts being usable for all sorts of merges, giving them long-term value against the miners that will inevitably keep crashing (albeit from a higher low this time around since so much RLT was infused into the marketplace).

I hear a lot of questions about which lootboxes to buy: the 100 RST or 500 RST ones. The simple answer here is that it doesn't really matter if you don't care what parts you're getting. If you want to rattle through a lot of boxes at once, it's a lot faster to just use the 500 RST ones. If you need specific parts or want to try to keep things about equalized in your inventory, go with the specific ones.

To come up with that answer, hundreds of boxes were tracked across every variety. The difference between the 500 and 100 ended up being about 0.1% but often swayed back and forth, so I've written that off as just variance. Long-term, both should be about equal unless they change how they work (and I do watch them still, so I'll absolutely start reporting the differences if they're ever changed). But for now, consider them all equal!