Quote Originally Posted by Tiqa View Post
And there you have this F or D that can't understand a word in E and just got paired with E ppl using duty finder even if he just taged F language.
THB, I've never heard of that happening. The DF language selection is there to pair you up with other people who have the same DF language ticked. (So if you tick all four in DF, you can get paired up with anyone who ticked any of those languages; they don't have to tick all four to be paired up with you.) The selection in your character profile is different (you know, the one you get to when you rightclick(PC) your name in the party list, or anyone else in either party list or search window, and choose View/Edit [whatever they're called again, I forget]). And the languages you see if you open up the party window is not the languages they selected in DF, but the languages they ticked in their own settings.

The thing is, the majority of players on EU and NA data centres seem to play with E only -- because for most non-French, non-German and non-Japanese people, English is usually the language they understand the best of the four. So people checking only F or only D tend to have longer queues, because they have a smaller selection of people. Hence the whole 'tick all languages for faster queues' mess =/

On a random, non-DF related note... Some time back, when you still needed 10 mobs of each type, me and my flatmate were killing mobs for our Atma Books, and ran into this French guy who pretty obviously was on the same book as us (we ran into him in two places right after each other). We tried to work with him, tagging mobs and then leaving him to kill them (because tagging = auto-count, even if you don't hit it even one more time), or splatting the mobs he'd tagged, just so we'd both get the mob to count. In turn, he started spouting French stuff at us. Neither of us speaks French, so we had very little clue as to what he was talking about, except that it wasn't too friendly. We said that sorry, we didn't speak French. He ignored it. And due to him keeping on doing it, my flatmate finally got annoyed enough and started responding to him. In Swedish. Mostly just comments along the lines of "well, if you can argue with us in your language when we've said we don't understand it, I'll just do the same, then".
Finally, the guy says, in English, "I don't speak Turkish." My flatmate responds (also in English), "That makes two of us." The other guy goes, "This is French server. Go away." (paraphrased, since it's a while back). And we just stare at him as if he's got five arms and eight eyes. Wut? Sure, there's a bunch of French people/FCs on Phoenix, but... there's also a bunch of German, Spanish and even Finnish FCs. And, of course, plenty of English-speaking FCs. I...really have no idea how he could have gotten the idea that Phoenix was supposed to be a French server O.o