Quote Originally Posted by SXTC View Post
Right now trial players can't:

- Trade
- Reply to private messages (or send them)
- Join Free companies
Amongst other choices.

However this ruins the experience for a lot of trial players who because of this do not get a sense of community behavior which may be off putting to them. If they met people in game and made friends, they would be more likely to stick around and subscribe.

I would say give them more options but limited so bot users can't abuse this:

- Allow them to join FC's, but forbid them to actually own/start one.
- Allow them to trade but only with people who are in their friendslist or FC.
- Allow them to reply to private messages but only to people in friendlist or FC.

I'm convinced that when people meet people that treat them with kindness, they will have a way better experience and the people they meet might even convince them to subscribe.
Sadly there is too many problems with this.

Say you wanted to add your own alts to a FC but don't know who to ask, just make a Alt, Invite it from a Free Account, then just add your main account alts.

Or make a bunch of free accounts, and have them be in a FC By Themselves. take over buildings run by Free Trial Players once the Paying Account is gone.

There is merit, but there is also the risk of opening new floodgates for issues. you'd need to really comb through all potential drawbacks. Which they might not even want to open up.