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the idea of free membership should be to attract more ppl to see the game and hopefully subscribe , we need to make these free members go everywhere and do everything, but limited. For instance, let them visit money & skill houses, however, gaining only $1 per sell? or dont gain anything .. its just for them to “try” them out! Let them go to skill houses, but only at a speed of 33%, have a limit of 5 points all together (assuming 1 point for each skill) .. again, just to “try” it out! These higher skills shall not increase payout per jam(..)
Allow free members to visit service lots, try out role-playing, sim jobs, shops, discos,own a size 0 land with no or residence category - just for the sake for them to try out the buy and build mode…
Without giving them such opportunities to see the game, they will get bored, leave and never subscribe … you are not even giving them the full opportunity to see how the subscribers are playing the game and enjoying all its features.
I hope this is taken into consideration.
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Rather than allowing them into "real" skill and money houses. Why not revamp the Welcome Category. Allow single money objects that pay 0 there and allow skilling at a slower pace. A nice little popup saying how much money they would have earned if they were a subscriber would be funny. No skill locks but still the ability to interact with objects and learn how to use them. It's not likely they can do much with 10skill points anyway.
Keep in mind free accounts cannot ever earn money using objects because a botter with 300 free accounts could still ruin the economy even with $1 per object pay.