I decided this past weekend to grind my first town in Free Realms. I happened to be standing in Seaside so that is the one I picked.
By grinding a town, what I mean is to do whatever I can to remain in town and work on quests. First off, I completed the collection quests of Seaside, then I visited every quest giver and completed every quest that is available to a person who is playing for free. Quite often the game tried to encourage me not to do this by having quests that would lead me off to another town, but I would always run do that quest and teleport back, rather than the expected behavior of seeing quests in the new town and sticking around to work them.
When I logged out on Sunday morning, the only quests that remained in Seaside were the ones I can’t do. That doesn’t mean there are not more quests, but there might be some that just are not unlocked (because of level or because I haven’t done the lead in quest from another town or random world NPC). At this point, unless I get a quest that sends me to Seaside, I don’t expect to go back there until I get bored and start looking for things I missed (or things that have since unlocked).
Sanctuary is next.
There are collection quests and other unlockables in the area, which reward you for exploring. Aside from that, yeah…you really need to go member to get the full effect in the area.