I was a member for a month last year and got 500 Loyalty Points as expected. I redeemed a bond for 14 days of membership a little over a week ago, and when I went to Solomon's General Store to collect the monthly free item for members, I noticed I had 3,500 Loyalty Points (some of which I spent on the super-useful Poison Purge aura) instead of the expected 1,000. I'm pretty sure players only accrue 500 Points during the first month of non-consecutive membership. So did I miss some sort of promotion?

They upped the amount of loyalty points one gets.

 

You'll earn 4500 the second month and the third you will earn 7500 and so on.

The explanations I can find are extremely confusing, but it seems to work as follows.

 

There is a 'base' amount of loyalty points you get just by virtue of having X months of membership under your account, whether or not those months were consecutive. So even if you go F2P for a year, and get the second month, you get the relevant amount of loyalty points (which is 3K). If you took another break and bought month 3, you would get 5K, and so on, going down the second row (Points) of the table in this article.

 

In addition to the base amount, you also get bonus points for being a member cumulatively. For instance, if you bought membership two months in a row, on month #2 you would get the 3K points I mentioned in the previous paragraph, and 1500 bonus points (the next column on that table), for a total of 4500.

 

So the upshot is you were in fact entitled the loyalty points that you received - but you would have received even more if you had bought two months straight instead of a year apart. Hopefully that helps :).

Arceus pretty much covered but basically there are two amounts now that combine for your pay out.

 

One value which increases for consecutive months membs and gets reset if you lapse for 14 days

One which increases for cumulative months membs and never gets reset.