I'm scared to start out.

Hello,

I'm currently on my trial account, first day, and what I noticed is that most if not all players are well above 30 and most 50. I personally enjoy leveling doing missions on teams and on top of that you gain EXTRA exp when you are in bigger groups/teams.

I'm really-really do not want to start the game and just solo it to level 50. I haven't bought the game yet and I really do not want to buy it now and play only 10 days to for fill my urges to play with power for a bit.

Any ideas what I should do? How to gather people, maybe a different server to try?

Welcome to CoH!

First of all, let me note that you've chosen one of the two most populated servers. The other one is Freedom, which is more PvP and PL focused. There was just a new free expansion two days ago, which added a lot of new collectible achievements, and most people have dug out their high-levels to run around and get them.

Don't worry about the relative levels of other players. We have the Sidekick System, which makes all players in a party the same level. So if you're invited to a team of level 50s, you become level 49 for the duration - or you can invite them to your team, and they temporarily become your level, and gain the same rewards from your missions as they would from their own.

You may have a bit of trouble creating teams while you're still on a Trial account, because of the chat restrictions. Once you've upgraded to a full subscription, there are easy-to-follow guides to starting your own teams. For now, I recommend using Help Chat (type lines starting with /hc) to ask questions and find teammates, and putting something like "Trial Account, can't send tells or invites" in the window that comes up if you select "Team" while not teamed.

I'm sure there's at least three other posts with other helpful tips by the time I'm done writing this, so I hope this helps!

Also, some channels -really- help teaming later on:

I'd suggest starting out with: VirtueUnited
Also worth noting, we have our own awesome radio station: http://www.thecaperadio.com/

Teaming starts in Atlas. At most times, there are usually sewer runs forming. A bunch of low-level characters will -inevitably- group up and run through the sewers in Atlas Park. It's a sometimes a great way to get from level 2 to level 6-8. (and sometimes a great way to see a team totally implode in on itself...but you know, either is entertaining.) It's a pretty common way to initiate a character.

After that, a team will often start running radio missions (not to be confused with the Cape Radio) in King's Row, or you can even head off to The Hollows (Though most people avoid it now.) I'd recommend running at least one Safeguard mission before you hit level 10, so that you can get a jetpack to zoom around on.

But, yes, teaming will get much easier once you're off a temp account.