Hung Chu Enforcers: why the drop rates are bad

A little while ago, I made a post about the drop rates of the Hung Chu Enforcers required for this new mission event. It included the above screen shot of the Hung Chu Enforcer inventory entry.

I was curious about the drop rates, so I dusted off an old energy account. I went back into my inventory to get a screen shot of my start number of Hung Chu Enforcers, and lookie what I found! Yep, they want you to buy your way out of it.

Well, now we know why the drop rates are bad. That makes me not want to do this mission event at all.

And speaking of that drop rate study that I started? If anything, Zynga has actually reduced the drop rate since adding this option to purchase the damn things with Reward Points.  I just got started, but I've gotten zero Hung Chu Enforcers out of the first 19,000 energy spent.