I think Xsyon needs a free trial, but as has been pointed out letting trial players play with everyone else doesn't work.

What could be done is carve out two islands in the mist separated from the main area. Trial players could play in one of these islands with the previous restrictions (lvl 30 for skills, able to place one character totem, etc.) These islands would be on the live servers so player could chat with citizens, either through global or a special trial channel.

At the end of each real world month or perhaps each game year, the active island would swap. Existing trial players would respawn on the newly active island. Any tribes, buildings, terraforming, bins, trees, etc. on the inactive island would be reset. This would keep trial players from playing long term as only skills and the contents of their pack/pouches would carry over to the new island. The island wipes would mean that trial characters would have a relatively fresh zone to experience.