I used to play from 2005-2009 and i recently tried to go back to official servers and found the game was just absolutely not anything like it used to be, so i came here. A few questions tho; how active is the auction house since there is a much smaller population base, i would assume it is much harder to make money/gear up? and how difficult will it be to find parties, i saw that level sync is active so that's cool.

Welcome! I started a few months back and found it very easy to make gil if you like farming. There are a few posts on here for making gil. For partying keep in mind we start around level 13 on nasomi. The time it takes to get one all depends on what time you are searching and what job.