que system seem dead

[HEC]

You're trying to play at extremely low-population hours, on a weekday to boot.

True dat - but you're forgeting that DF is matching accross servers se it still pair you with players from other regions / time zones (indeed on the same data centre). To speed up matching in DF (at least duering "dead" hours) you can also select all languages and Join in progress option.

[Garlyle]

True dat - but you're forgeting that DF is matching accross servers se it still pair you with players from other regions / time zones (indeed on the same data centre).

No, I remember it. To my memory though, the Data Centres are still localized based on intended player location - NA servers are grouped with other NA servers, EU servers are with other EU servers, JP servers are with other JP servers. Realistically, the time zone/region difference is only a couple hours at most - midnight PDT is still only 3AM on the east coast. We're still well within the hours for lowest population on these servers.

But yes, opening up more languages and enabling Join In Progress can help.