I  would  hate  to  see  all  new  players  blocked  from  chat.    They  probably  need  it  the  most.    That's  where  they  find  out  about  resources  eg  this  forum,  ayumi,  deadwood,  etc.      But  it  might  be  a  good  idea  to  have  low  level  accounts  restricted  to  certain  channels.

Eg  channels  1-25  anyone  can  use,  (might  be  way  to  much  traffic  for  only  25  channels)

channels  26-50  min  level  25  required

channels  51+  min  level  50  required

just  a  thought.

Any other suggestions from anyone I can take back to Plarium?

I mean, I literally don't even use the general channel because you can't see chat messages from both simultaneously. Perhaps add something to enable that?