Fly without an account and still earn everything
Since November 1 you could catch ships and planes without an account. The catch was real, but the reward was missing. The card flipped, the photo came up, and underneath it said «Not saved yet». No XP, no rank, nothing to feel good about. We counted: in ten days 68 guest catches turned into one sign-in. Showing someone a prize and then holding it back does not make anyone want to sign up.
From today a guest earns exactly what an account earns.
On every catch you get the XP with its breakdown (base, first flag, first type, first size, night), Feathers, Tridents for legends and giants, and the progress bar towards your next rank. Rank-ups and achievements play the same full-screen animations. Your first ordinary ship already takes you from Fledgling to Beachcomber.
First flight is now a checklist of nine items, and each one pays: take off, scan the sky with the map radar, catch something, fly to another city, visit an airport, sign in with Google, set your name, add an avatar, pick your home city. That is 305 XP and 45 Feathers, and finishing the whole list adds 200 XP, 50 Feathers and 3 Tridents on top. Guests see every item; the last three open once you sign in.
What a guest cannot do yet: world firsts, the live feed and Discord, daily missions, spending Feathers in the shop, and the mayor, captain and governor seats. Those carry your name, so they need an account.
Saving it takes one tap. After a few minutes of flying, a small pill shows what you have built so far, something like «Spotter · 340 XP · 4 catches · your PIP egg». Sign in with Google and all of it moves into your account: the catches, the XP, the checklist items. You also carry on from the same spot on the map on any device, while a guest's spot lives only in one browser. Guest progress waits for 30 days.
If you have never flown with us, open skydex.online and take off. The checklist will tell you what to do next and what each step pays. More on the radar in A radar you can find.