Hey guys, looking through the forums today and came across this one, just wanted to clear some things up as to why Square has structured the game this way despite you being a vet player and not a new adventurer.

So with the Recruit a friend program both the friend and recruiter receive the ability to port themselves to the nearest crystal of any "new adventurer" or sprout that is in their friends list. So the reason that you are made to have such status despite being veteran is that this allows those people to see your in the first 40 hours of game play on that character and if you would like to friend and quest with them, they will be able to use this feature and know visually once it has expired use with your new char.

Hope that helps!