Odd. I reply as much as I want. Never heard that restriction.

OP is right. This is a great way to keep new members easier to moderate, but it doesn't really keep out determined troublemakers, who will just let the account sit until the restriction falls away automatically after 30 or 90 days.  Meanwhile the forum community loses out on feedback/input from new blood.  Can't you just slow the remaining posts for the day as a compromise? I.e. one per every 30 minutes after the first three or some such?  Otherwise new players who decided to engage with the communists may lose interest because of the rather draconian limits on their posting in the first month(s?).

Well said. I called a buddy who owns this game to ask him if he had same problem. He said he did and (just like you pointed out) quit the forums on the second day because of it. After replying to the couple I can today, I am going to do the same thing myself. 3 is just too restrictive.

A better solution would be to check if people own a copy of the game in steam at least (or write a small program that does it for you) and not subject them to this. I wonder how many of the forum members would have kept coming back if they had experienced this when they first started their account with stardock.

Got the same spam, getting the impression that this is a scam. Why doesn't SD take that acount down for good?

I've got that one too. Sadly, I foolishly deleted the message before I even thought of reporting it.

Me too, but it's still in the trashcan.

No, because my initial thoughts were someone playing a joke on me. But seeing that exact message now in the OP made my change my opinion.

the userID is this

https://forums.galciv3.com/user/6541690

That user is already banned. Since those are PM's, we can't remove them from all accounts like the regular forums. Just need to delete.