I've made a number of changes to the month's free Premium allocation and also improved the notifications as follows:

1. New accounts require activation via the email address provided to ensure they are accurate. This should also make it a little bit tougher for multi accounts to get set up plus easier to track them and close them down.

2. New members no longer get Premium access initially. Once they have been a member of the site for a month and are still active members they will get an offer of a month's free premium membership which they can take up by clicking on a button on the account page - an email is sent out offering this automatically. The thinking behind this is that new players don't really appreciate the benefits of Premium till they've been around a while.

3. Three days before your Premium membership expires a notification email is sent out.

4. New in site 'growl' notification system used to notify of membership about to expire / expired / free membership offer for those who don't check their email. More on this soon as it's a nice way to notify you of things.

That's all folks!

Awesome awesome awesome awesome excellent awesome. Very glad to see you putting some of these suggestions into place.

I've heard report of the registration activation being hinky for at least one recent signup. May have come in between or during some update or other. I've advised him to PM you or post here.

#2. YES!

And Tom, you are NOT a standard member.

standard member player maybe, i think more along the lines of "GOD-LIKE"...or was that "HEAD-SHOT"?

Bringing the hammer down. I heartily approve.

I don't understand but I don't think it effects me at all so Good Job

How much of #2 above is explained to new members when they join? Is it in the Help anywhere?

asm wrote: Is it in the Help anywhere?

Nope, but I'll work on adding it to this page: http://www.wargear.net/help/display/Premium%20Membership