Okay yeah, so I managed to stay away from logging her in for at least a full day and there were two tickets in her salvage this morning. I guess I didn't realize that the alts who had gotten them before had been logged out for such long stretches.
And yeah, that is strange that it's basically rewarding you for *not* playing, or at least not playing that particular toon. Though maybe because CoX went F2P relatively late in its lifecycle. Most F2P games in the modern era seem to want to encourage you to log in as much as possible with daily rewards, etc. and Black Desert Online is even built around supporting people never logging out at all.
Which isn't to say Homecoming needs to do this since it's a donation model run by volunteers, just it's interesting to see the opposite.