Season rewards: what happens when the month runs out
Seasons shipped earlier this week: every calendar month is a fresh leaderboard, your career XP and collection stay forever, and the season counters start from zero for everyone. What was missing until today was the ending. A leaderboard that just quietly rolls over at midnight is not a competition — it's a spreadsheet. Now the ending exists, and it pays.
Here is what happens automatically when a season closes:
The top of the XP board gets paid in Tridents. First place earns 25 🔱 and the gold badge, second and third take 15 🔱 with silver and bronze, places four through ten get 10 🔱 and a Top-10 badge, and everyone in the top ten percent of the board still collects 5 🔱. Tridents are the prestige currency — they buy the exchange cosmetics, and there is no other way to earn them in bulk.
Everyone who actually played gets something. If you finished the season with at least 500 season XP, 200 🪶 feathers land in your wallet — and a bell notification tells you exactly where you finished: «Season 1 „First Light" closed — you finished #12 of 87».
Four titles per season, forever. The XP champion takes Season Champion. The three domain boards crown their own: Fleet Master for the most new ships collected, Ace for the most new aircraft, and Sky Hunter for the best race score. Titles pay no Tridents on purpose — prestige stays scarce — but they are permanent.
Badges live on your profile. A new shelf under your career rank shows every season you placed in: 🥇 S1 · Champion, 🏅 S3 · #7, and so on. Each badge links to that season's archived leaderboard, which stays browsable forever. Glory is per-season; the shelf is the museum.
The close is fully automatic — no announcement post, no manual payout. The moment the calendar flips to the 1st (00:00 UTC), the job settles the old season: pays the wallets, writes the badges, rings the bells and posts the champions to Discord. If the server happens to be mid-restart at that exact minute, the close simply runs on the next boot — nobody's reward can be paid twice or lost.
And the museum to go with it
Shipped in the same wave: the season archive at /seasons. Every season gets a permanent page — the four boards, the podium, the title holders — that stays browsable forever after the close. Badge chips on profiles and the bell notification link straight to it, and the live season's page doubles as a snapshot of the race in progress.
Two smaller things landed alongside. The champion's reward got teeth: besides the Tridents and the gold badge, the XP-board winner now receives the Season Champion title as a real equippable cosmetic — it appears in the Trident Exchange only for those who earned it and can never be bought. And the daily-mission pool gained a season mission: earn 150 XP toward the season board today — a steady nudge for the grinders.
Season 1 «First Light» ends August 31st. The board is live at /leaderboard — there is still time to move up it.