choosing a world

[Anova]

Hmm, that's a pretty wide range, but I can understand not finding many NA players at those times. Have you considered the EU servers like Moogle, Shiva, and Cactuar? They're more likely to be online at your time (at least the latter half).

As a plus, the EU servers are technically located in the same place as the NA servers (Montreal, Canada) so there's no real difference in lag. That might change in the future with devoted EU servers, but likely not until February or later.

Make a new character and look for the major player hubs, or check the forums before transferring your char over.