So I started my free trial today and logged on under the name "maccher" to find 5 people on. After a few tries to communicate, I found no response. I don't know why not. Maybe the general chat isn't global like I assumed, maybe they were idling, maybe things are better on the TeamSpeak, idk. It was only after I found a brief tutorial on taxi-ing in the on-site Wiki that I got anywhere. I still don't know how to heal myself though!

So I have a few questions:

1. Do you play Rise?

2. Would you be willing to help a newbie get his footing in-game?

3. What's the deal with the radio silence? Is the TS server more active? Is there an IRC that's more active?

4. How is the overall gameplay experience right now? I hear the economy's bad but it wouldn't stop me from playing if it didn't affect gameplay too much.