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Anyway that can be changed?

Purchase a sub or buy Cryptic points. Silver members are restricted to the PC/Tech Issues forum until they meet those criteria.

It's a measure intended to foil forum spammers.

ok ty.

Does that include not being able to Skill my Commander(2)?

This might help answer a few of your questions about F2P features and restrictions. For all spots where you see a ? in brackets, just hover your mouse over the ? for further info: http://www.startrekonline.com/f2p_features