Welcome to Project 1999! You'll soon realize who all the Red promotion spammer posters are and ignore pretty much everything they say like the rest of us. They post DAILY about how good Red server is and if people would just try it they'd love it. Apparently they aren't aware that most of the server HAS tried it and realized its a cesspool of a server with a nearly dead population and gave up on it. But by all means if u enjoy getting permacamped in Crushbone/Unrest/MM (the only places you'll ever see other players at low lvls) by Fungi/CoF twinks all day long then feel free to "Try Red" maybe someday you'll get to max lvl and join TMO and you can pay the Cuck Tax to Empire for your chance at Halls of Testing raid loot!
In all seriousness though welcome! To answer your questions it is indeed true that the server is topheavy but I wouldn't let that discourage you. I got a pretty late start myself and have managed to catch up decently. I don't have 1+ million plat in the bank like some of the earlier players but I've got respectable gear and enough plat to get by without farming too hard. As others have mentioned Qeynos is generally a dead area hardly anyone goes there. It's super far out of the way of dru/wiz ports and generally doesn't have very much appeal to most players. I'd recommend trying to re-locate to Freeport/EC or Gfay area. Groups or at least people to duo/trio with will be MUCH easier to find in Crushbone/Unrest than Blackburrow. As far as plat NOBODY is paying 10k for a rez. At least not that I've ever heard of. I tip most clerics a couple hundred plat for a rez if they're nearby. Maybe more if they have to travel to rez you. You can buy Jboots MQ for somewhere around 7k I think? Really not THAT bad.
On the topic of raiding. Don't let the forumquesters scare you. You will by no means be waiting in endless "lines" to get loot. I'm a member of <Bregan D'Aerth> only joined up at the start of Velious a couple months ago and I've already gotten a bunch of loot. I don't know what people expect when they're raiding dragons that drop 2-3 pieces of loot on avg with 50+ players on the raid. You might not get a new item every single week. That doesn't mean it's a "Disney World waiting line" bunch of casual WoW players imo :P
Hit me up in game if you need advice or some help getting started. Would be glad to assist. Names in the signature.
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