Doesn't limiting free accounts still work, via the Server Options through the limitfreeplayers2 (or whatever) flag? Ever since V5 and Observer mode came out, it's been set to false on Era, when it used to be true. I've not set it back to true, to test it, and I'm not tempted to, in case there's a lot of pissy newbies, so I guess this is really more of a question: Does it still work?