Hello!
Welcome to Project 1999.
This forum is for the Blue (non PvP) Project 1999 server. That is what you should chose in the list of servers.
There are over 700 people playing the game on this server right now. If you create a gnome and are looking for other players, you can zone out into Lesser Faydark and hang a right (hugging the wall) until you zone into Greater Faydark.
Maps are found here:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Zones
Train one point in Sense heading, and bind the doability to a turn (left or right) key.
Make a /loc hot button to push in case you are about to die. That way you will know where to find your corpse.
Have fun!