Currently, the referral system assumes infinite growth in player numbers is possible. Each new player is assumed to be able to find multiple other new players, in order to get the rewards. Even in a literal best case scenario where every person on earth joins, you are eventually going to hit a max where there's no one left to recruit. New players are essentially a limited resource.

I think it would be beneficial to the longevity of the system if you allowed players to also take a quality route to referrals instead of just quantity. It doesn't completely eliminate the resource exhaustion issue, but it will slow it down. Plus, players who will stick around and play the game long term are very important! So I suggest letting players get additional referral points when the people they refer reach additional play milestones.

Some possibilities:

• Reaching even higher companion levels
• Reaching a certain profession level
• Unlocking a certain number of den spaces
• Having a certain number of high level wolves
• Reaching certain points in the campaign

tl;dr- allow players to get all the referral companions by potentially referring one very long term dedicated player.

Pokemon Go's referral system (released like, 6 years after the game launched lol) has a system where you get different rewards based on what your referral does. Catch a bunch of Pokemon? Evolve a bunch of Pokemon? Trade with other people? They all award different things. You can get these rewards multiple times if you refer multiple people to the game.

It's a good system, I think, because it doesn't punish you if you never refer someone (unless you want to 100% all medals, but that is absolutely a niche minority if they exist) as the rewards are just item bonuses you can get through different means of gameplay.

Since Lorwolf seems to be keeping this system, support. I'm glad we can apply referrals retroactively now, but this still doesn't solve the problem inherent problems of the system.

More options to count for the progression is good! I think that would be a good idea.

Interested in how this would look like, probably would support it!