FoE tv or whatever link to the game there was when I started funneled players to EN/international server as the default, and I thought the selector was just choosing to play in English which of course, I wanted. I didn't know for a long time that there were different ones for the US, or that there would be reset times that mattered for your time zone consideration, beyond just language. On the browser it still shows a split flag, US/UK too, like this:
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Kind of deceptive, and it's a common source of confusion for new players, as is the many worlds within each server. More than one person has tried to get a friend to join the game and they end up creating in a lot of places before they match up to the same server and world as their friend.
By the time I figured it all out, I didn't want to start my city over. It might be worth
Oggy4201 switching servers, if you're not too far along.