The Referral System rewards players for inviting new accounts to the shard. When an invited player names you as their referrer, both accounts gain a Referral Point that may be redeemed at the Referral Rewards shop. Referred accounts also generate a perpetual donation bonus for the referrer.
Earning Referral Points
Referral Points are tracked per character.
A character automatically receives 1 bonus point the first time the referral system attaches to them.
On login, the Tell A Friend popup appears if your account has not yet entered a referrer and you have not hidden it.
When you complete the Target Your Referrer step, both the referrer and the referred player gain 1 point. Your account is then permanently linked to that referrer.
Eligibility Restrictions
The following rules apply when naming a referrer:
The referrer must be a player character.
You cannot mark yourself. Attempting to do so returns “You can't be your own referrer!”
Unique IP check. If the referrer's account and your account share any login IP address, the message “You can't refer another account you own.” is shown and no point is awarded.
Per-referrer IP de-duplication. Each referrer keeps a list of IPs they have already credited. If any IP on your account is already in that list, you will see “You've already referred someone that uses their IP address.” and no point is awarded.
Each account may set a referrer only once.
Commands
The login popup includes a Do Not Show Again button. Hiding the popup does not disable the system; you can still reopen it with [referral.
Redeeming Points
The Referral Rewards shop can be opened by:
The [referralrewards command.
Double-clicking a UO Sosaria Referral Rewards stone (immovable, hue 1157).
Daily Purchase Limit
You may purchase one reward every 24 hours. Attempting another purchase before the cooldown ends returns “Referral Rewards may be purchased once per day.”
Reward Delivery
On a successful purchase:
Your point balance is reduced by the reward's cost and your spent total increases.
Item rewards are placed in your bank box, falling back to your backpack if the bank is unavailable.
Potion rewards are delivered as a stack of 500.
Creature rewards spawn at your location and are automatically tamed to you as control master.
Attachment rewards are applied directly to your character.
All purchases are logged by the shard.
Reward Catalogue
No rewards are active in the Referral Rewards shop. Opening the shop shows “No rewards are currently available.” — the catalogue is empty until staff populates it.
Referral Points may also be accepted as the currency for individual For Sale vendor listings. When a listing is flagged to use referral points, the purchase gump deducts directly from your Referral Point balance instead of gold.
Donation Referral Bonus
When an account that has set a referrer redeems a donation gift, the referrer receives an automatic kickback.
The kickback is 20% of the redeemed gift's stack amount (total / 5).
It is always paid in Sosarian Coins (Sosarian Dollars, blessed, hue 1195), regardless of which gift the donator selected.
The coins are delivered to the referrer in a “Thank You For Your Donation Referral” gift box, placed in the bank box (or backpack as a fallback) of the first valid character on the referrer's account.
There is no cap. The bonus is paid every time a referred account claims a donation gift.