I certainly would've paid a bounty to find a wood tree or a free patch for 12468. But more to the point, in the interest of fostering early communication between players, features to make it easy for certain kinds of communication to happen would be cool.
Maybe likewise: "I'm trying to get a gang together to go do X" Up to level 10, it only seemed purposeful, maybe, to get together on mining. More activities that reward teamwork would be good.