Bring a friend, and you both get paid
Skydex has grown mostly by people finding it on their own: search, a forum thread, a friend pasting a link into a chat. That last one we could never see. A link to your catch or your rank looked the same to us as the same link found through Google, so there was no way to thank the person who sent it.
Now there is. Every account has an invite link, and it lives on a new page, Invite friends in your profile menu. The links you already share carry your code too: moments, your rank crest, your profile, your places and timelapses.
What it pays
We only pay for things our server can check. A share button can't tell us whether the message went anywhere, so pressing it pays nothing. What counts:
| When your friend | You get | They get |
|---|---|---|
| creates an account through your link | +25 🪶 | +50 🪶 |
| takes off and catches, races, flies 15 minutes in total or flies on 3 days, within 14 days | +150 🪶 and +5 🔱 | +150 🪶 and +5 🔱 |
| runs a receiver on 7 of its first 14 days | +10 🔱 | +10 🔱 |
Once your friend is actually flying, they get exactly what you get. The signup step leans their way on purpose: they are the one trying something new. The second row is the one that matters. A spare Google account is easy to make; two weeks of actually flying are not, so signing up alone pays very little.
A few rules keep it fair. A link works for a new account only, once, so you can't "invite" someone who already plays. Invites pay at most 60 🔱 a month; Feathers have no cap. An account created from the same network as yours still earns Feathers for both of you, but no Tridents and no board points. We check that in memory and don't store anyone's address.
We also decided not to let players send currency to each other. Transfers would turn every spare account into a wallet for a main one, and the whole point here is paying for real players.
The Recruiters board
The leaderboard has a new 🤝 Recruiters chip in the season view and a Recruiters board under all-time. A friend who flies is worth one point, and a friend whose receiver feeds is worth two more. Signups alone score nothing. The board shows how many people you brought, never who they are. That list is only on your own invites page, where every friend has their own row with what they have earned you so far and what their next step would pay.
Until at least three people have scored, you'll see an invitation where the table would be. At the end of each season the top recruiter gets the Top Recruiter title, which isn't sold in the Exchange. It comes with no extra Tridents, since every invite behind it was already paid once.
Know someone who stares at planes, watches ships come into port or flies FPV? Send them your link.