Yup same for me on en. servers. I tried it before on a localized version but there were far too few players after 2 weeks - about 5-600 active players and the community sucked.
I hopped on en58 atm since it's the only 3x i can join atm that is rather new, but the top players are around 50 vills already which is a huge let down for me. If you the wrong guys you will surely be rimmed again in less than 24hrs with that attack force or farmed until you quit.
The only method for me to test out the new features they added in the game while I wait for Rinzia to open up again or Thebes to launch with 3x (if it's 2x, i'll skip it and keep Rinzia probably, depending on a bunch of factors) is to play on en58. So far I enjoy the quests, inventory and more consumables. Game was rather simple before 2.0 and I didn't had the time to stick to the 1st world wonders phase, I think i stopped 1 month before en21 was WW ready?. And now we already have 63 worlds in total launched LOL.
Anyway, lurking around in the meantime.