Greg, firstly thanks for giving this the time it deserves and not just giving it the brush off.
I tend to agree with what you have proposed, but perhaps with one amendment, but not sure if it could work in practice. Perhaps the existing affiliate gets the credit regardless of how they become a player at the RTG casino, for a certain time period, eg 3 months, then it is open season. Just not sure if you can account for it at your end, but I don’t see why not.
My concern at the beginning was actually not affiliate vs affiliate, rather the affiliate program using the existing player base (which we affiliates helped build) and marketing to it directly. The line about ‘player for life’ then gets turned into ‘player for life of the affiliate program before it gets shut down and reinvented under a different name’.
Based on the above I haven’t voted because my opinion is not as clear cut that it fits into the options.