Okay, so after a day and a half of install and connection issues, I finally was able to start playing. It's still pretty laggy, since everyone's pretty much just starting out (think of when BC hit), but it's getting better by the day. Levelling goes pretty quickly, and the public quest mechanic is pretty neat.

If anyone's going to try it, I'm a Chaos Magus (named Cthulku of course) on Tor Achere.