We have several times discussed the law of diminishing returns with the Total Rewards program.

Simply put, once you reach Seven Stars, there isn't much incentive to play beyond that, because the value of the further rewards (signature experiences) is pathetically bad.

But it's not just Seven Stars. Even if you are a lower tier, there's still little incentive to play at the end of the year, as your tier points will be zeroed on January 1. So if you're a diamond with 42,000 points, and you don't plan to play enough to reach 80,000, there's no point to rack up further tier points, and you might as well wait until January.

To combat this, Caesars introduced a new bonus tier credit program that earns you points for NEXT year on top of the ones this year, for play after October 1.

That's not a bad idea, except like all decent Caesars ideas, they screwed it up in execution.

You get only a 20% bonus on your play, and it caps at 20,000.

So if you earn 10,000 tiers from Oct 1-Dec 31, you will get 2,000 bonus tiers for 2016.

Or if you earn 100,000 tiers in that time period, you will get 20,000 (the maximum you can get).

Big deal.

Honestly that's still not very much incentive, especially when one can just wait and earn 100% of the value on January 1 and beyond.

They should have made it something like a 50% bonus, and they shouldn't have cappd it.

The 20% DOES apply to bonus tiers earned (that is, you earn a bonus on the bonus), but who cares?

I see what they're trying to do here, but if it's only 20%, and if the maximum is 20k tiers, this isn't doing anyone much good.