Achievements now pay for every tier
We counted what achievements actually paid. The answer was mostly XP. The first two tiers of every achievement, which is nine out of ten tiers anyone has ever reached, paid XP and nothing else. Twenty achievements never paid a single Trident, because Tridents started at tier III and those ladders stop at tier II. That list included catching five A380s, photographing ten ships over 300 metres and scoring in all eleven drop zones. And the achievements page didn't show any of it: you found out what a tier paid after you had it.
Here is what changed today.
Feathers on tiers I and II. Every achievement now pays 15 🪶 at tier I and 40 🪶 at tier II. These Feathers skip the daily wallet cap, because a tier is something you reach once, not something you can farm. Achievements that already paid Feathers (Directly Overhead, Foreign Skies) keep theirs on top.
Tridents for finishing a short achievement. If an achievement has fewer than three tiers, its last tier now pays 3 🔱, the same as a tier III anywhere else. The hardest ones pay more: Super and Leviathan Hunter 8 🔱, World Tour 10 🔱, Sniper and Stratosphere Club 5 🔱.
Titles for the branches that had none. The aircraft branch has 23 achievements and until today not one of them gave you anything to wear. Now: Straight Up (100 aircraft directly overhead), Legend Chaser, Super Spotter, Type Rated and Brass Spotter. Receiver owners get an Antenna plate frame after 30 days on the air, Lone Outpost for aircraft or vessels nobody else heard, Heard It All at 100,000 aircraft, and Year on the Air after 365 days. The sky and sea versions share one title, so running both antennas doesn't give you two copies. Races and drops get Podium Regular and World Courier.
Receivers have their own section. The six receiver achievements used to be filed under Social on the achievements page. They now sit under 📡 Receivers, which is also where most achievements on the site are held today.
See the next reward before you earn it. Every row on /achievements now shows what its next tier pays: XP, Feathers, Tridents and any title. The unlock banner in the game shows the Feathers and Tridents too, not only the XP.
Back pay. Tiers you already hold are paid under the new rules, once. You'll get one notification with the total rather than a row per tier. Nothing you already had is taken away.