Probably a very stupid question about Iksar

[IriBlair]

I never played the original EQ, my first MMO was EQ2 early 2005 and I fell in love with the Iksar in it with my first chars being an Iksar Warlock and Shadow Knight. Reading the Wiki, it seems though that choosing to play a snake boi would severely gimp me as they can't enter a majority of cities without being KoS.

So would this also affect grouping or trading? I don't want to limit myself to who I can help.