final tally for my two nearly identical cities.
Both cities did all quests, had ashen phoenix active, collected drops around the same city at the same time, 100 currency email, etc etc. Fully the same. - Cashed in first about 2-3 days before the end of event. I was going to cash in on vitality surge day, but i forgot.
Necro had 5171 at first cash in
Dom had 5182 at first cash in
The difference is from amounts collected on outskirts of city. Happens every event. Even tho both cities collect at the same time, every time, there is always a difference in time. This event, a difference on 11.
Dom
total normal currency 5693
currency from chests 2200
(7893 combined)
Chests (11): 350, 350 350, 50, 350, 350, 50, 50, 100, 50, 150
ended at *294 which got me the second base reward.
Necro
total normal currency 5682
currency from chests 2300
(7982 combined)
Chests (14): 50, 100, 150, 100, 350, 100, 100, 350, 50, 100, 350, 50, 100, 350
ended *297 which got me the second base
Its an interesting comparison between only two cities. But it all actually evened out pretty equally this time. That usually doesn't happen. I usually have one that got a lot more then the other.
I will note tho, that before i logged out for the night, silver league rank was at 281+. It might have gotten a little higher as ppl cashed in at the end. Having finished all quests, got all rewards, email currency, outskirts currency, and pretty lucky with chest currency.. i just BARLEY made it to silver. I did as much as is possible without spending money and only barley hit silver. - So for ppl that had less luck in chests, they completed everything and might have only gotten bronze at best. And thats always annoyed me. I like the league system, but i feel the luck factor in getting currency from chests can screw ppl over here doubly so. Not only will they have done everything possible and maybe not have gotten the artifacts for the building, but then they lose out on the league system as well. And all form no fault of there own.
As for me personally, i got lucky on both cities in chest currency rewards (might be the first time that happened at the same time). I ended with 9 artifacts and the base for the second building. Which is exactly where i want to be. Thats the spot i want to finish at. The scary part is that you can see how easily it would have been for me to fall short of that goal. My total normal currency was around 5,600. It took nearly 50% of that more in chest rewards to get that far. If I had had bad luck in chest currency, i would have gotten no where near that...