I accept ALL friend requests, because friends are awesome: they raise your ranking and lately they offer bonus lottery tickets.  I will not give out free items, train horses, or grant special offers, however. The only "free" help I will offer is advice. 

Never bought a pass on the game, never intend to. RC coats are my specialty: get up early every 26th of the month and catch a few of the 100-200 coats, then spend the rest of the month collecting golden apples again. I usually spend my passes on divines or RC's for my own small collection: with the lottery at hand, black market items come by easily enough if one makes a good trade. 

Well, that's the end of the page. What's an encouraging note to leave at the end of this? New Players: Don't be afraid to reach for the top! You can get passes from the Fiber Offers selection or by searching the different rankings for players who buy black market items. You can sell black market items in the exchanges and soon have a grand equus reserve of your own. Yes, this may take time if your account is only a few days old. But don't lose hope! Once you reach 30 days you can do almost anything. You don't have to spend hours on the game if you have a mind to bargain a little and save for those things you really want. And if you accidentally spend your passes in that annoying little Black Market glitch where passes are offered for payment first instead of the items in your inventory breathe deeply, resolve not to make a similar mistake, and earn a few more.  Losing is never a finality: you just have to work a bit harder to get where you want.