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.
Continue reading...
- 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.
Continue reading...