So this day I found out something new.  I haven’t held the Architect missions (user-made) in high regard because you only get tickets, not recipes and salvage and enhancements.  But then I got the message that I could not get more tickets because my inventory was full.  It turned out I had 9999 tickets after a couple levels.  I went to the ticket person elsewhere in the AE building, and it turned out I could use it to buy… recipe, salvage and enhancement.  Actually I got a lot of stuff, more than I could have gotten the usual way. That may be because I had been on farming teams for a couple levels though.  I thought they only farmed experience and influence points, but evidently they make lots of tickets too. I never noticed.