Agree. The rewards for many events that require relic materials have never been updated to reflect that investment (ex T3 assault battles require R5 or above but the rewards don't even payback your investment). The newer assault battles have better awards but still require over a year to get back the investment. Conquest, which takes almost two weeks to complete didn't give enough bronzium or ccb to relic up your toons.
Scavenger is not a good way to farm relic materials. Ccb and bronziums, tradeoff is like 10 to get 1 material. But you need like 40 of each to relic. But the transistors...you can get easily. The next one you can get fairly easily. Just seems very imbalanced as far as how many yiu need vs how obtainable they are.