The Wingman ladder: prizes you can only earn by bringing people in
The invite program already pays both sides in game currency: a little when your friend signs up, a real reward when they take off and play, and more again if they set up a receiver. That covers each person you bring in. It didn't give you anything for bringing in several. Now it does.
Five rungs
Open /my/invites and you'll find a new section, the Wingman ladder. It counts the friends who proved they play: they took off and caught something, finished a race or ran a drop, or flew on three different days, all within 14 days of joining.
| Rung | Friends flying | Tridents | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| I | 1 | 5 🔱 | Wingman title |
| II | 3 | 10 🔱 | Formation avatar glow |
| III | 5 | 15 🔱 | Contrail Formation trail |
| IV | 10 | 25 🔱 | Squadron name plate frame |
| V | 25 | 40 🔱 | Air Marshal crown for the gull and Air Marshal livery for the drone |
The Tridents land in your wallet the moment the rung is reached, and they count toward your prestige stars like any other Tridents. The prize lands in your wardrobe, and the bell tells you it arrived, so you can wear it straight from the Trident Exchange.
Why these items can't be bought
Every prize on the ladder is award-only. The Exchange doesn't sell them and never will, so a Wingman title over a gull in the sky means that pilot brought in somebody who flies. The crown on rung V uses the same shape as the gold crown in the shop, in an ice-blue nobody can pay for.
What counts, and what doesn't
A signup on its own moves nothing. A friend has to fly, because an empty account is easy to make and two weeks of play isn't. Invites made from your own home network don't count either: they already pay no Tridents at the "plays" step, and the ladder can't be a way around that rule.
The count only goes up. A friend who stops playing later doesn't take your rung away.
The ladder is also separate from the monthly referral cap. That cap limits how many Tridents the per-friend rewards can pay you in a month; ladder Tridents come from the rung itself and don't eat into it.
If you've already invited people
You don't have to do anything. The server recounts every hour, so friends who started flying before today are counted on the next pass, and the rungs you already cleared pay out then.
Your link is on /my/invites, and every moment, rank and profile you share from Skydex carries it already. The Recruiters board shows who has brought the most people in this season.