Wait... what? I'm extremely anti-social, and even I have added more than 5 friend requests in a single day. What happens when you join a new FC, and immediately start making friends with them? Or what happens if you are introduced to a friend's friends, or start a new character on the same server, or decide to leave an old FC but you try to add people to your friend list before you go?

Sure, you could ask people to send the friend request to you, instead of vice-versa, but what person thought this out and said "yeah, five is a good restriction".

How about five per hour, or attempting to send more than 10 per minute flags your account for immediate communication blackout? What we have is a game where SE fails to police and enforce RMT rules, and the best they can come up with are barriers that affect normal players. (No sending mail to characters on the same account)

How long do you think it will take before 5 friend requests is changed to 8-10? I give it until patch 3.15. They never give any of these ideas the necessary amount of thought, and have to backtrack later in apology.