Invite links now open the right page
Until today every invite link did the same thing: it showed your avatar and rank in the preview, then dropped your friend on the game's front page with a big Take off button. That works for somebody you want to fly with. It works badly for somebody who owns a receiver, because the front page says nothing about receivers, and a receiver is what earns both of you the most.
Now one code has several front doors. On My invites you'll find a link for each:
- ✈ ADS-B receiver opens the ADS-B network hub.
- 🚢 AIS receiver opens the AIS network hub.
- 📡 Station leaderboard opens the receiver ladder, on the tab of your own station's band if you run one.
- 🏆 Player leaderboard opens the career leaderboard.
The plain link still opens the front page, and every link you've already posted keeps working exactly as before.
The preview changes with the door
Paste a door link into Discord, Telegram or X and the card is written for that page. The receiver cards say "Connect your ADS-B receiver" or "Connect your AIS receiver". If you run a station in that band, the card prints its place, for example "My station: SKDX Hamburg, #3 of 35", taken from the same ladder the page shows a click later. Without a station it says how many receivers in how many countries feed the network. The leaderboard card prints your place among players.
Numbers we couldn't read are left out rather than shown as zero.
Your friend knows who sent them
A leaderboard is a table of strangers. Somebody who opens it from your link and isn't on it yet has no reason to stay. So on the page they land on, a friend who isn't signed in now sees a small banner at the bottom: your name, your avatar, and one button. On the receiver pages it's Connect a receiver. Everywhere else it's Take off. The banner shows up only on the visit that came through the link, and ✕ closes it.
What hasn't changed
It's still the same code and the same rewards, and the same rules apply to all doors. An invite counts only for an account less than 48 hours old, so a feeder who already has an account can't be invited, whichever link you send. The receiver doors work best for new people, including the owners of the unclaimed streams listed on the station leaderboard: they create an account at the moment they take their station.
Recruiter points still come only from invitees who start playing (+1) and whose receiver keeps feeding (+2). A receiver link just gets a feeder to the page where that +2 starts. Earlier posts: bring a friend and share missions.