New to Everquest and P99!

[MrAddison]

Going in blind and don't know what I'll be doing, this is always an exciting thing for me!

There's a recent article from Feb 2023 from mmorpg.gg talking about Everquest and it really pulled me in and I really do think I can get past the cluster of the UIs, I mean, I am an older player who's played classic games before! Not Everquest though! And now, I'm going to get into this!
I've always only been interested in games with an active community and it seems like P99 is active!

Any general advice/tips you'd like to share to a newbie would be awesome!

If there are different servers, which one should I join? I'm more into PvE more than anything, making new friends, exploring and adventuring together, that kind of stuff!