The only reasonable thing to do is give you half the TPE IMO. I understand they might see it as taking advantage of a loophole, but at the same time, how do we know the people you recruited won't be active? Then in the future do you need to reach 75 TPE for it to count.
Yeah 75 TPE minimum is a pretty good benchmark for the future drives, like it was in the past usually. 1 TPE for a recruit is the standard I believe, aside from this time.