I want to start again

So I want to start this game back up again, I played during launch for about a week but couldn’t balance this and Lost Ark (my current main MMO) at the same time. But now I have done pretty much most of what I wanted to achieve in Lost Ark and kinda ready to focus my time on a new MMO.

The last time I played T&L, I played on some random EU server and got up till the point where you unlock the daily system.

This time I want to start from scratch but i also want to make sure I start in a server that’s quite populated and had some nice chill guilds that don’t expect me to consider the game like a 2nd job.

Also people who have played Lost Ark, this question is towards you - how is the horizontal content in this game? Is there a good amount of collectibles and achievement logs that a primarily solo player can complete? This is one of the best things I liked about Lost Ark, its horizontal systems were very engaging. Also how is the stronghold/player owned house system? Is it quite customizable? Once again, Lost Ark had a very nice stronghold customization system.