the cities are free lot for your main job, then for next highest ppl who have sam leveled.
i.e. if any new sam joins, they can lot sam AF in the cities. it is only in the northlands where there is a tier. tier is based on attendance, seniority, etc. once a tier is cleared, will the next tier's ppl move up and new people added to the lower tier.
as for the cities AF, it's gotten to the point that all (or most) of our sams have them. a few pieces are even free lotted by people who's main is not sam. so if celesia hasn't gotten anything in 8 months, he can only blame his own poor attendance.