Seasons are here — career forever, glory by the month
The all-time leaderboard has a problem every veteran game knows: it's unbeatable. The pilots who started first stay on top, and a newcomer looking at a six-month XP mountain has no reason to compete at all.
Seasons fix that. Every calendar month is now a season — a parallel race where everyone starts from zero, while your career keeps every point you ever earned.
How it works
Nothing about your progress changes. XP, ranks, achievements, your collection, world-first credits — all of it is career-permanent, exactly as before. What's new is a second layer of counters that only live for one month:
- Season XP — everything you earn inside the season, the main board;
- Ships and Aircraft — new additions to your collection this
season;
- Races — season points: a finish is worth 1, a personal best +3,
and WR-delta medals +5/+10/+20. Track records themselves stay career-forever — the season race doesn't touch them.
The leaderboard now opens on the season view, with the countdown to month's end and chips for each board; the all-time boards moved to their own tab, untouched. Past seasons stay browsable, and your in-flight career button now shows your live season rank next to your rank name.
Seasons have names
Season 1 is First Light — fitting, since it starts alongside our feeder network's first receivers coming online. Names are drawn from an aviation-and-sea pool prepared in advance: Crosswind, Deep Water, Jet Stream, Night Watch and so on. A season's name is how you'll remember it — «I took top-10 in Deep Water» sounds better than a date.
What's coming at month's end
This release is the ledger and the boards — the fair race itself. The closing ceremony ships next: end-of-season rewards (Tridents for the top ranks, a permanent champion title for #1, named titles for the best spotter and racer), placement badges that stay on your profile forever, and a bell notification with your final standing. The current season is already counting toward all of it — nothing you earn this month will be missed when the rewards land.
Everyone is at zero right now. That's the whole point — go take the early lead while the sky is quiet.