HotleadColdfeet

Salute all! I am HotleadColdfeet. I am a relatively new player to Arma III, having only started it about half a year ago. Before then, I was (and still am) active in combat flight simulators, especially Rise of Flight. Since I've started Arma III, I've logged about 50 odd hours in single player, going through the VR courses, various showcases and am midway through both the standard single player campaign and the Apex one. A few days ago, I decided to give multiplayer a shot and wound up on one of your Invade and Annex servers. I knew it was coop, but other than that, I didn't have a clue. I found your teamspeak address in the mission description, so I joined to see if I could talk to someone. There were one or two guys on there, but none of them would talk to me, so I tried talking on the in-game voiceover system, but no one would talk to me there either. Everybody ignored me on chat as well. To top it off, some troll rolled me over with his ATV purposefully, and when I got into a helicopter that was waiting, the pilot purposefully crashed it. All in all, not a great time for me...but I don't give up easily! I believe the experience I had my first time in multiplayer is not representative of the community and that there are folks here who would be willing to help orient me to the multiplayer side of Arma III. So, I have a few questions if you don't mind: 1) Where can I edit my loadout in the Invade and Annex servers? I found a place where you could save your current loadout, but that's not what I wanted. 2) What are some good servers I can join as a newer "soldier?" (And how to find these servers - there are literally thousands of them! ) 3) A few guys from the flight sim squadron I belong to ( JG1 ) play Arma III as well. How could we get the most out of Arma III as a group? 4) Is there someone I could talk with on Teamspeak to "show me the ropes" so to speak? I am very green as far as multiplayer goes. Many thanks! - HotleadColdfeet