Hey everyone!
Well I'm back from my trip and got us caught up on new items, and I was thinking of altering the system in such a way that would accommodate sporadic trips (as I have another one coming up in a month or so anyway) so here is what I have come up with as a solution. I'll just leave them in the drop pool for a longer period of time, still cycle them out but if I fall a few days behind it would barely be noticeable to people if there were a lot of different items dropping.
Previously I was cycling them out every 5 days, I think a number as high as 30 days/items would be pretty reasonable to have as a common drop pool, any more than that would take awhile to get the newer items. And since I switched it to season 2 after fixing things and changing the distribution/timing last time, I figured it was a good time to call this season 3. It should be a lot easier for everyone to stay up to date and would give me much better flexibility to work on the actual game itself, it should work out great this way.
And my favorite bit of good news is that Steam has fixed the auto-stack feature for timed drop items!! I had them configured to do so and when I was on my trip they just started auto-stacking on their own and you will probably notice a lot of other games have their items auto-stacking recently now too. If you stack your items manually once now you won't have to do it again, but I'll still try to get item stacking functionality built into the app at some point.
Thanks for playing and lots of stuff coming down the pipeline in the coming months! :)