Yeah, the $1.5 million I referred to was for COMBINED 2012 and 2013. It was $1 million for 2012, and $500,000 for 2013.
As I mentioned on a different thread, I realized recently that you can play EVERY OTHER YEAR once you're a Seven Stars, provided you earn Seven Stars back in the first 3 months of the next year, and you will never lose the status.
So let's say you earned Seven Stars in 2013.
You will also have it in 2014, no matter what you do, so you don't play at all.
Then, in 2015, you play 150k tiers before April 1, and you will get it renewed until April 1, 2017 (without your status ever expiring).
Then, in 2016 you don't play at all.
Then you again earn it in the beginning of 2017, and that lasts until April 1, 2019, etc etc etc.