Speaking of the gratis email - I personally feel that although life isn't fair (never will be and that is fine) there was a serious discrepancy in the variation of seeds allotted for the email. I received the 50 and I'm grateful for that. However, I am now caught up on the daily quests, have yet to go for any prizes, have been collecting seeds around my city consistently, log on every day, etc. In other words, I have gotten just about every possible seed I could get to this point in the event and I have a total of 884 seeds available to me. So basically, some players received 55%+ of my TOTAL seeds available at this point by doing absolutely nothing.
I get that luck is a factor in the prizes and all of that, but having such a huge disparity in the possibility of what event currency one can get from an email we all receive strikes me as a little wrong. I get that the chests offered free currency in the past and that was luck based. However, this event is capped on what is available and the email disparity was 10X from one to another. At least with the currency being in the chests, I could increase or decrease my chances of getting it by choosing which chests I went for. If that extra currency was a priority, I could focus on those chests. This was just another lottery aspect that sort of upsets me a little. Sorry about the rant.