New player guidance

[YinsYang]

Hello all, its been about 20 years since I last played EQ, but I recently found out about this project and I am excited to give it a shot. I have some free time and want to get started on the best foot possible. So I have a couple questions for the veteran players out there.

1) Does it matter which server I start on? I know green is the newer one and maybe slightly more populated, but blue seems pretty active as well. From what I can gather there is a slightly different rule set between them as well right.

2) Are there some noob friendly communities out there? I remember classic EQ, especially the starter levels, being brutally hard. Having some knowledgeable people around would be very useful, and heck having good people to chat with just always makes games more fun.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.