Renneth

Hey, I found myself in the middle of decision fatigue! I am new to FFXIV in the sense that I played through the ARR msq while my other friends were playing and quit the game each time my friends lost interest. Now I am returning to the game again, but I have different friend groups scattered across data centers, and I have little time to re-level several characters. My current friend group claimed that Phoenix was the RP server on Light datacenter, but it seems pretty... Dead? (That's from searching for linkshells and fcs.) This forum is the only place that proves otherwise, so.. Is there any hope for a Phoenix RP'er or should I transfer/re-level on Omega? I don't mind buying a story skip, but I am just afraid of starting over yet again until to find out later that the RP scene on the new server is dead (again.) I am genuinely lost and would like some suggestions..