Honestly, it's better to be friendly toward people you can grow to trust, than to join a random faction. PM me and I'll help you get started or send my room-mate to help since I'm really busy with work and college, and she... Well I wouldn't call what she gets paid to do work, since actually is in a fairly lazy server management job for what is basically a technological assembly line, 90% of which is unpaid volunteers, who recycle E-waste, while she sits in her office occasionally messing with a server, but mostly playing games...
Get this... She apparently even LAN's Doom with her boss...
Something is fucked up with that place...