Your receiver now counts towards prestige
Yesterday we started paying receivers every day. Feathers arrive each morning for a good UTC day, a Trident or two for every five good days, and the first 20 aircraft stations and first 25 ship stations get 25 Tridents once. The first payout ran just after midnight UTC today. 28 aircraft stations and 4 ship stations were paid for 24 September, and 16 Founding owners received their 25 Tridents (two of them run both bands and got it twice).
When we launched it, those Tridents went into your wallet but not into prestige. You could spend them in the Exchange, but they didn't move your prestige stars and you didn't appear on the prestige leaderboard. We had a reason. The first draft paid one or two Tridents a day, which across the network worked out to more than everything the game had issued the month before. Counted as prestige, a Founding owner would have collected two or three stars in a month without flying at all, and the prestige board would have turned into a list of receivers.
We cut that rate before launch. A receiver that stays up all month now earns about 6 Tridents on the aircraft side and about 12 on the ship side. At that size, keeping them out of prestige no longer protected anything. It only hid the people who keep the network running, and a receiver running on a roof for weeks is a bigger contribution than most single catches.
So from today:
- Prestige stars count every Trident you have earned, in play and from
your receivers. A Founding owner reaches the first star (25) straight away. The second star (75) takes months of uptime, and the stars above that still come mostly from playing.
- The prestige leaderboard uses the same total. When two people have the
same number, the one with more career XP is listed first, so the ten Founding owners on 25 don't appear in random order.
- Profile cards, the leaderboard honours and station owner badges on
/stations show the same stars.
Nothing was rewritten in your wallet. Receiver Tridents stay in their own column, and the total is added up when a page asks for it. Your spendable balance is exactly what it was yesterday.
The career and season boards still count XP only, and a receiver doesn't earn XP. Stations have their own ranking, the Station leaderboard, ordered by Signal.
If you haven't connected a receiver yet, the ADS-B network and AIS network pages explain how, and the first day that runs above 80% uptime pays the next morning.