new to EQEMU, care to answer?

[jhardman]

HI, I have not even started to run EQEMU but before I do I have some questions.

1) do you have to make your own server? Or can you join others?
2) If you can join others, can you still make yourself whatever level you want and what gear you want? If so do you just do something like (in the regular chat channel #itemsummon centilongsword)

I looked in the guides but didin't see anything about some of the basic basic questions. If anyone has a link to a place that can help I'd be very thankful. Thanks.