There isn't really an age limit. You can lie about it, they really just check for maturity. If you're going to act like Kyle9 or Darkone, then they'll obviously know you lied. But if you act like someone you wouldn't find on the eqemu forums, discluding the Developers; then you'll be fine.
Don't really expect guiding to be fun. It's only really for people who wish to help people. You don't gain anything you can exploit except for the occassionally retards /petitioning bugs that you can delete their petition and exploit the hell out of the bug with your other character if it's of any use.
It takes about a month or two for the only process to complete before you have to spend about two weeks of guiding time to become a full guide, and even then with the more but still not full access, you can't do much.
Bottom line, don't guide unless you really wanna help people. Don't guide if you can't answer the retards here with questions more then 20 times a day, *cough mattmeck*. You'll just be wasting yours, and there time.
Usually from me you would hear a, OMGLOL GO DO IT AND WASTE THEIR TIME". But really, this is something that I don't really joke about.
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