Idk about you, but I find it fun starting off fresh. Now as shmegg said, it's better if you have a friend who already plays zone, but Zone will be much more fun if you work your way up instead of being given everything (from trades) because you'll miss out on doing missions with noobs, and working your way to a squad that does missions together, towering, collecting trash at 2 am when no one's on so you can save enough $ to buy AP rippers or for the new holiday shop opening the next weekend, etc... Zone really has a lot to do, and a lot of cool stuff compared to other servers. And zone is still a young server so there's big gameplay ideas being added constantly. Another thing I recommend is you buy a robot in the near-beginning of your gameplay, at the very least they're extremely cool and fun to play with at the start, and then you can bomb spar, which is something entirely different than any other server has. It's also cool if you can get friends together and spar each other in dusk spar, where you can't see a thing except the space directly next to you. And if you like to base on era, you'll like it on zone too. I hope this just helps you to try zone and hopefully like it a lot
Most of these things I said are things I actually did while working my way up in iZone, and I thought it's a lot of fun to start from the bottom, enjoy all the little things that experienced players wouldn't bother with, because those little things do get old after a while, like anything else, but they're the most fun when you're new to it. Anyways, good luck and I hope you do try zone and love it.