My first character in FFXI was a hume named Malkov on Bismarck server. I waited until 2 days afters I got the game to make him while my friend found ma a world pass. My second character was a tarutaru named Osatosa. I love taru.
I got Malkov leveled to 4 and Osa leveled to 10 before I took a 2 month break from the game.
When I can back to FFXI my friend was on a new sever, Fenrir, so he got me a wp and made a new character, Avengel. I got my subjob with Aven but then quit the game agian.
I quit the second time because of the other players on Fenrir. They were just mean. The best example was this one time I was partying in the dunes @ lv 16. The ranger in the party threatened to leave if the leadr didn't drop me because I didn't have a subjob yet!
The other day I just happened to log on with my old Bismarck Taru and /tell to me old linkshell owner, Mailorder. He had a new linkshell now and he came to windy and gave me the new pearl. It reminded me of all the other times you super cool Bismarckians went out of your way to help me.
Wow that went on longer than i planned....sorry for the waste of text
Long story short, Bismarck is a super friendly server full of helpful people! Keep up the good work guys!