Well honestly TS is a must have, mic is less needed but if you want to participate in any faction activities you will need ts to at least hear your faction M8s. And TBH yeah PvP is what this game is mostly about, and I was kidding myself long enough about PvP being just an insignificant part of game play, but if you will not get to it, You will most likely quit game after 2 months top. At the moment there is only as much for You to do on this server PvE wise, and this is getting boring really soon, and most of factions that do not participate in PvP can't take you to Ares and will die multiple time in places like Warehouse as well.
There is few things about fonline You need to accept sooner or later:
-Real Time skill is must have (ergo ditch Turn base ASAP)
-PvP is important part of game play.
-Town Control is an end game PvP activity (which gives most fun IMHO)
-You need to do boring shit for some time to have fun later
Encode those, and even as a solo player you will have fun for sometime, and after that you will start visiting Hinkley which will soon draw you in to sweet PvP world, to recognize that this game is fun. Remember though sooner you get there is better, because sooner you will start doing everything that game offers bigger chance is that you will not get extremely bored off with rest of game.
P.S.
I do not agree with Necro nor Chris nor any other khan
. I don't kill newbies any player with less than 170 HP
is just boring for me to hunt. And entering encounter most of the times is a waste of time for me.
With all my understanding every faction is multicultural ATM, and I met only few Germans on this server all spread around all factions.