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.
They won't because very soon a lot of vets will move to free trial so they don't need to unsub, and se has to make sure they don't feel permanent home in this. The want people to sub at all costs