Has anyone tried the mmporg Horizons?
(
http://www.istaria.com for US or
http://www.europe.istaria.com/ for Euro players)
I've tried for a few days and I really like it, lots of character customization options (10 player races including dragons!), nice graphics, actual content
(and no 10min wait for transport either)
They've only made about 1/5 of the world available but its already huge. Lots of missions and possibilities in the game.
They have lots of dungeons/sites that have to be completed as a community project with the whole server population participating - one example is that 8 of these projects had to be completed pr server to free a new player species (only four of the servers have managed this so far)
another is old abandoned cities or bridges to isolated islands have to be completed in order to gain access. This requires cooperations from adventurers to clear out the area and then to protect the crafters while they contruct the bridge (a long and arduous task)
At the moment there is a disease affecting all bipeds in the game (both players and NPCs) only dragons are immune and they have found a magic cure for this, though they have not yet found the source.
I play on the European ICE server as "Aumer" and so far I really like it
EDIT: corrected the links