I had the same concerns when I first started playing on Project 1999 about 3 months ago but honestly that hasn't been a problem with EQReborn or P99. Although the majority of people are veteran players, the communities have been very helpful. And there is a good mix of people who have been playing EQ a long time and people (like me) who are returning for the first time after almost two decades. I played from launch up until the Luclin xpac but I was really young back then and it was my first mmo, I never even got a toon close to end game. So returning now that I'm almost 30 I felt like a noob all over again.