WoW Vanilla (preferably RP): How and where to start?

[Aurigon]

Hi everyone! I'm new on this forum. Shouldn't my english be good, please excuse me, I'm an italian player who is desperately looking for some way to play WoW Vanilla. I've never ever played WoW at all, but I plan to do so as soon as possible, and I thought it would have been best for me to start out playing the original version, in order to experience WoW as it was at the very, seemingly glorious beginning, since I hadn't had the chance to do so until recently (mainly for working reasons), and because I'm not so attracted by the changes to the game world brought in by the newest expansions (especially Cataclysm, which even made the original game world impossible to play on official realms). Also, by reading over the Internet I found many WoW players who were fond of WoW Vanilla and grieved for what they referred to as the 'good old times'. Since the time I first heard about the Cata expansion changing the world for everyone, regardless of what version they had, with absolutely no way back, I was petrified and feared I had lost any chance to enjoy WoW in its purest form. Now I've found this site and I still can't help heaving sighs of relief!! *_* After this long preamble, let's get to the point: I already own the italian/european versions of the collector's edition for WoW Vanilla and its three expansions. I'm also registered on Battle.net, even though I imagine I'm not going to play WoW over there any sooner eheh. So, here are my questions:
1) Do I need to perform some custom installation, download any tool, or something like that, in order to play on one of your servers?
2) Is there any restriction of language or game version (I own the italian/european one), given I want to play WoW Vanilla on such servers?
3) I'd LOVE to RP, which would be the best server for me to choose (if any, I don't expect to have much of a choice, considering I'm talking about WoW Vanilla on private server after all)?
4) Finally, what could you tell me about the whole game experience on the server you would recommend to me?
I wouldn't mind donating even a considerable amount for the help I should get, also considering that playing on private servers is totally free and I'd find fair to give some compensation for the great time spent, in case.
I long for your answers, thanks you in advance!!

[bone91]

Go check out either wow-one.com or worldofscriptcraft.com.
I described the differences in my thread a few below yours, called "The Decent Server Library"

[Thormn]

I have to say, both of those servers are not RP (especially wow-one.com); however, if you do join worldofscriptcraft.com, I'm sure I might run into you and we could role-play sometime.

[Aurigon]

Thank you both! bone, meanwhile I came accross right that site, wow-one.com, and decided to join there. Looks like there's no RP-dedicated server anywhere, just as I expected unfortunately, however what made me choose that instead of scriptcraft is the fact they're going to open a new realm soon, 100% blizzlike and with a donating/reward system that won't affect gameplay, all rates set to 1x, and with new content release also blizzlike: just what I was looking for! When I first got it I could hardly believe, it's more luck than I would hope to have.

[Raz3rr]

Get a repack! They are easy to use, or start with a fresh core, your choice. You need a name, website, etc. fusioncms is the best web cms!

[Aurigon]

Get a repack! They are easy to use, or start with a fresh core, your choice. You need a name, website, etc. fusioncms is the best web cms!

Sorry, Raz3rr, but... what the HECK are you talking about? O.o What does that have to do with my question? CMS? Web design? I was just looking for some server to play on...

[DoxramosPS]

Sorry, Raz3rr, but... what the HECK are you talking about? O.o What does that have to do with my question? CMS? Web design? I was just looking for some server to play on...

Haha; The guy never said he wanted to run a server; he said he wanted to play on one.

[bone91]

Since Feenix new server is utter bullshit (as expected from them), you should really check out Valkyrie-WoW.com.
It's an amazing RP-PvP server and the core even surpasses Q-Gaming's and Scriptcraft's core. Emerald Dream is a ****ing joke and the Feenix admins accuse all other servers of stealing scripts as an excuse for their lies and false promises.

Just read this thread, it sums up their ****ery perfectly:
Why are lvl 60 instances scripted so bad? - Feenix - vanilla wow home