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Server Features

• Level cap 99.
• All Maps and Outposts Unlocked.
• Explorer Moogle 3 cities, Selbina, Mahura.
• EXP 3x Retail.
• Books 2x Retail.
• Combat and crafting skills 9x Retail.
• Small regen/refresh/regain with buff to level 75.
• Over 200 Custom NM’s geared for 99 players up to Multi-Alliance Mobs.
• 9 Custom Abyssea zones With working custom ATMAs for EXP and HNM fun, all geared and balanced for 99 play.
• ALL Blue Magic working.
• Custom Trials and Quests for Salvage and +1/AF3 +1-2/Empy/Relic/Mythic(and upgrades).
• Custom KSNM.
• Moderately buffed food… Nothing insane!
• Enabled player commands.
• Auction House is regularly restocked, but AH Bot also regularly buys items placed for sale and helps to simulate a higher player population.

Please also note this is not intended to be an easy mode server. You will be expected to work for what you want as everything is designed to be achievable and thoroughly tested with the amount of players each mob is designed to be killed by.

Server Info

As of 10/09/2018, the server hardware specs are:

• Dell R710 Chassis (Rack Mountable 2U)
  • 2x Intel Xeon E5649 @2.53GHz each (24 cores total)
  • 16GB RAM (Dual-Channel ECC DDR3)
  • Dell H700 raid controller running these drives at full 6Gb/sec throughput
    • 1x 500GB SSD (Main Drive)
    • 2x 300GB 10k SAS Drives in RAID1 (Backup Drives)
  • Dual 870 watt power supplies (for redundancy)
  • 1GB FiOS Fiber Connection

The server is setup in VMs to separate the parts of the project allowing for easier maintenance on things if one part needs to go down. Those parts being:

• Game Server
  • These are the game servers for the different dynamics of the game world.
  • The database server
    • This contains the data structure behind the dynamics of the game world.
• Web Server
  • The website
  • The forums
  • The wiki
  • Any extra stuff we want to run

The Game Server VM has:

• 8 virtual processors allocated
• 8GB RAM allocated
• 200GB SSD space allocated

The Web Server VM has:

• 2 virtual processors allocated.
• 2GB RAM allocated.
• 150GB SSD space allocated.

There are plans for hardware upgrades in the future as things are needed, mainly RAM is the first planned upgrade if it comes to needing it but at this time it isn't.

With all this fancy server hardware, you should see a major improvements on lag reduction and speed of certain things like the loading the Auction House and such. Results from the AH should now be near instant.

Server Rules

All players should click here to read the Server Rules.

Can I transfer from another server?

Server transfers are currently on hold while HomepointXI settles into its new home. Once the hold has been released, please see the Server Transfer Process guide for instructions on how to export your character and create a character transfer request.

Multi-boxing / dual boxing

Yes you can run multiple accounts/characters at the same time, except in Dynamis and Limbus areas (serious bugs which can crash the server there).

However you need to be aware that you will at random run into difficulties doing things like missions and quests while you do this. These are not mistakes in our server's scripts, but a side effect of the socket and session handling common to all FFXI private servers. Sometimes some of your characters will not have progress updated while others will, or one of your characters won't get a key item added. This will force you to repeat steps you already did, and possibly get your progress stuck until a GM can intervene.

Tools to aid you with your multi-character playing include:

• Multisend
  • Servo (was replaced by Multisend but still available for use if you choose)
• CurePlease

You can also install Multisend or Servo via the Ashita Launcher under the Plugins section. The above links take you to the developer pages for these plugins. The developer pages contain information and commands for use at your disposal.

Players Online?

How many players are online right now*?

Final Fantasy XI Install & Setup

To start playing you will need to install PlayOnline, Final Fantasy XI and the Ashita launcher(Preferred) or Windower (be aware that most of us at HomepointXI are Ashita folks, we're unlikely to be able to help you on Windower issues. Reach out to Windower themselves via their Support Forums or their Discord for help).

HomepointXI Installation Guide

Ashita System Requirements

Video: Ashita Install Guide

Enhancements known to cause bugs

Enhancements are 3rd party applications/plugins/addons that enhance the gameplay experience of Final Fantasy XI.

General

Cut Scene Events may freeze when the game is not running at its stock frame per second.
Workaround: set fps back to normal before triggering the CS event you are getting stuck on.

Ashita Addons & Plugins

None yet.

Windower Addons & Plugins

Addon: Pet_Fix

Can prevent pet animations from working

Applications

None yet.

New Player Resources

HomepointXI Database Tools

Item Tool: Look up monster drop info, auction history, player bazaars and more.

Character Tool: View character profiles including job levels, crafting levels, current equipment, auction history, bazaar items, and more.

Monster Tool: Search monster database for modified monster levels and hp/mp, item drop rates, respawn information and more.

BCNM Tool: Information on level cap, drop rates, party size and more. (Note: Not all BCNMs are not supported by Darkstar. See the BCNM/KSNM Status page for more info.)

Blue Magic Tool: Find monsters and areas for learning specific Blue Mage Spells.

Auction House Anywhere!

Using the custom command !ah you can access the Auction house from anywhere in game!

Auction House Auto-Buy

Certain items will be automatically purchased for a fixed price by the AH-Bot. For example, when you out level a piece of gear, you can sell it back on the Auction House. As long as the price meets the AH-Bot buy price, it will be bought by AH-Bot automatically. To find the AH-Bot buy price, look at the item's auction history and see how much AH-Bot is buying that particular item for. AH-Bot runs once every 1-2 days or less. You can have more than 7 items for sale at any given time. Note, do not check Sales Status or it will limit your ability to sell more items on the auction. Also note, this is considered a non-exploit-bug that you use at your own risk!

• Please see the server rules regarding the Auction House for further information.

How do I get around?

• All Outposts are unlocked. Use the Teleporter NPCs around Vana'diel to travel quickly.
• Home Point Teleporting is enabled. After reaching a Home Point you can then teleport there from any other Home Point. (Note: Favorites list is not currently working.)
• Use a Warp Ring or a Black Drop to get back to your home point.
• Use the Express Class Travel NPCs to get from one nation to another. Anywhere you have to use an airship or boat, you'll find one of these!

How do I unlock a job I want to play?

• The Additional Job Quests page of the HomepointXI wiki explains, step by step, the process to unlock any of the jobs that aren't automatically unlocked when you first started playing here. All of these quests are similar to the quests on the retail FFXI wikis, but any changes specific to this server are also included.

How do I level up?

• To maximize your experience points ventures, use the Fields of Valor Field Manuals or the Grounds Tomes together with any of the following rings (unlike retail, here on HomepointXI, you can possess all of these at the same time!!!):
  • Chariot Band
  • Empress Band
  • Emperor Band
  • Anniversary Ring

How do I setup a Cure alt?

• Cure Please is an approved app for setting up a cure bot. See this video guide for instructions on how to set it up and a link to Cure Please in the description. Set up instructions are also listed below for your convenience:
  1. Download Cureplease
  2. Install in its own folder on your computer
  3. Launch 2 Ashita clients (launch both as administrator), one client for the main account and one client for the secondary (cure alt) account
     • IMPORTANT!!! **Login to each account one at a time**
  4. Launch Cure Please (launch it as administrator)
     • In Cure Please, choose the name of the cure alt account for the Selected PL and then press the SELECT button
     • In Cure Please, choose the name of the main account for the Monitored Player and then press the SELECT button
     • Make sure you un-pause Cure Please after both accounts have been selected!!!
  5. !!!!!OPTIONAL STEP ONLY FOR IF YOUR VERSION OF CURE PLEASE INCLUDES THE ADDON .LUA FILE!!!!!
     • Make sure the addon .lua file is placed in the following folder:
       • For ASHITA, the addon file goes in: /addons/CurePlease_addon/
       • For WINDOWER, the addon file goes in: /addons/CurePlease_addon/

Why does my game crash when I try to load Cure Please?

• If your FFXI sessions crash during the loading/launching of Cure Please, you may need to adjust your computer settings as follows:
  • These instructions are for Windows 10. If you have any other version of Windows, the steps to get to the User Account Control settings may differ but all steps will end at same last step below (Step #5).
  • HomepointXI server does not take any responsibility in any issues that may occur from you not following these steps exactly as shown:

1. On your keyboard, press the Windows key and the R key (at the same time)
2. Type in Control Panel and press the Enter key on your keyboard
   • If you are presented with a security validation prompt, complete that and continue
3. Click on Review your computer's status
4. Click on Change User Account Control Settings
   • If you are presented with a security validation prompt, complete that and continue
5. The next screen should have a slider bar on it, and you need to slide the bar down to to the choice that states to not dim your desktop:
   

How do I find out about weather?

• Use the weather reporter NPCs found around Vana'diel. This is useful when unlocking the Summoner job.

Content

What is different from retail / What is working or not working?

Notorious Monsters

• Many Notorious Monsters (NMs) have been level adjusted (higher) and can drop custom items. Always check the HomepointXI Monster Tool to look for any modified levels and item drops!

Treasure Hunter

• Treasure Hunter here and any other private server currently works like old school retail Treasure Hunter. The Treasure Hunter Proc System is not used.

Airships and Boats

• Trips on airships and boats don't work correctly, it's usually best to avoid usage of them
  • Use homepoints or an alternative method
    • One alternative method is to introduce yourself to one of the Express Class Travel NPCs!
    • Another alternative method is to ask another player (that already has access to the destination/that is at the destination) if you can nexus to them and then secure a homepoint at/near the destination.

Storyline Content (Missions)

• On private servers, there is a base code foundation provided by an open-source repository (Dark Star Project or Project Topaz). These open-source repositories are the foundations of all private servers. From these sources, mission storylines are provided for the different content and expansion packs of FFXI. Each private server uses this basecode and expands on it if /where possible. The status of these mission storylines here at HomepointXI are as follows. Anything that is listed as incomplete may change on a moment's notice as the open-source repository may have the content published at any given time which will then eventually be merged into the custom code for this server:
  • Nation (San d'Oria, Bastok, Windurst) Rank storylines: Complete
  • Rise of Zilart: Incomplete, stops at Awakening
  • Chains of Promathia: Complete
    • Storms of Fate, the quest that begins after Dawn (the final mission of Chains of Promathia), is not completely coded.
  • Treasures of Aht Urhgan: Complete
  • Wings of the Goddess: Incomplete, stops at Mission 7 (Purple, the New Black)
  • Seekers of Adoulin: Incomplete, stops at Mission 1 (Rumors from the West)
  • Rhapsodies of Vana'diel: Incomplete, stops at Mission 1 (Rhapsodies of Vana'diel)
  • A Crystalline Prophecy: Incomplete, stops at Mission 4 (Gatherer of Light (II))
  • A Shantotto Ascension: Incomplete, stops at Mission 4 (Sugar-coated Directive)
  • A Moogle Kupo d'Etat: Incomplete, stops at Mission 1 (A Moogle Kupo d'Etat)
  • Abyssea: Incomplete, stops at Mission 2 (The Truth Beckons)
    • All nine of the Abyssea zones are enabled here, as well as all of the NMs of these zones. Spawn details of these NMs can be found on the retail FFXI wikis.
  • Voidwatch: Incomplete, stops at Chapter V, Tier II (VW Op. 068: Subterranean Skirmish)

Trusts

• Trusts do not currently work here and are still in development in the Topaz codebase. There is currently no ETA for when Trusts may be added here.

Limit Breaks

• On HomepointXI, you only have one limit break (Genkai) fight, the lvl70 fight against Maat. Once you have beaten this fight, you should then return to Maat to help him bandage his wounds and to unlock your ability to continue leveling all the way to lvl99!
  • Only the original/advanced jobs can do this fight. This fight cannot be done on BLU, PUP, COR, SCH, DNC, GEO, or RUN.
  • Job Testimonial items are one-time use items!!! If you fail the lvl70 Maat fight, you MUST farm another testimony to be able to challenge Maat another time. Be sure to drop the old testimony before farming another.

Deleting a Character

• Character deletions on DSP servers are NOT recommended. Since here on HomepointXI there isn't really a limit as to how many accounts a person may possess, it is very much so recommended that you DO NOT delete a character. Simply just create another account and character on the new account.
  • Any issues that may arise from a player deleting a character are not the responsibility or duty of the administration of HomepointXI to resolve.

Japanese Midnight

Some quests and missions require waiting until Japanese Midnight on retail to complete. For HomepointXI, this means midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST).

EST is used in the winter and EDT in the summer. EDT is ahead of EST by one hour. 11:00 am EST is:

• 10:00 am Central Standard Time (CST).
  
• 9:00 am Mountain Standard Time (MST).
  
• 8:00 am Pacific Standard Time (PST).
  
• 12:00 am (midnight, the following day) Japan Standard Time (JST).
  

See https://www.timeanddate.com/ or a similar site for further timezone assistance.

Available jobs

• Most jobs are available with the exception of GEO, RUN. More Information.

Custom player commands

• HomepointXI features custom commands to enhance your gameplay experience.

Custom food

• The !shop 2 command lets you buy Custom Food anywhere in the game.
  

Crafting

• Woodworking, Smithing, Goldsmithing, Clothcraft, Leathercraft, Bonecraft, Alchemy, and Cooking are all available and unrestricted (even on a single character) up to level 110.
• Synergy is not available, however alternative recipes for some items are listed in the Item Tool.
• All crafting guilds are always open and provide most common materials.
  • Note that some aspects of guilds still use Japanese time, and cannot be adjusted. This can cause display problems when turning in guild point items.
  • See the Crafting Guides section for more information and guides on various crafts.

Classic Dynamis

• No procs! See our Dynamis Guides for more information on entering Dynamis.

Classic Vana'diel Ground Kings

• All of the NQ-version Ground Kings (Behemoth, Fafnir, and Adamantoise) are time spawns. All of the HQ-versions of the Ground Kings (King Behemoth, Nidhogg, and Aspidochelone) are very low chance spawns in place of the NQs, with guaranteed spawns of the HQs after a certain number of spawns of the NQ version (just like the good ol' days of FFXI!!!). *There are no force pops because both the NQ and the HQ versions of the Vana'diel Ground Kings all play parts in the Relic Weapon Trials.
  • Note that this also means that the levels of the NQ and HQ versions are boosted.

All jobs Artifact Armor NPC

• The original Artifact Armor (AF1) for all available jobs can be purchased for 500gil from the AF Storage NPC in Lower Jeuno or in a multitude of other locations.

Relic, Mythic, Empyrean Weapons

• Relic Weapons
  
• Mythic Weapons
  
• Empyrean Weapons
  

Empyrean Armor NPC and Upgrade

• AF3 Shop Moogle
  
• AF3 Upgrade Moogle

Limbus information

• Limbus Information

Abyssea Information

• Abyssea here on HomepoineXI server doesn't require colors (like retail does) to increase drop chances/adjust weaknesses of monsters/etc. Drop chances are based on Treasure Hunter (so bring a THF!).
• Atmas are fully working here on HomepointXI.
  • See the Atma page for more details
• Abyssea abyssites of Merit and Furtherance are fully working here on HomepointXI.
  • See the Cruor Prospector page for more details.

Burning Circle Notorious Monsters (BCNM)

• The list of working and non-working BCNMs and KSNMs can be found here: BCNM/KSNM Status

Zeni Notorious Monsters (ZNM)

• Zeni Notorious Monsters

Voidwatch

• Voidwatch information

Boosted/Custom NMs and Zones

• Various NMs across the world of FFXI have had their levels increased here on HomepointXI due to those NMs being involved with the upgrading of various pieces of armor/weapons or because they drop items that they normally wouldn't in retail. Even if you don't think an NM in the game has had its level boosted, it's always a very wise choice to utilize the tools that have been made available for you here on HomepointXI. Your life could depend on it!!!

• Some zones (Abyssea zones and Legion) have been entirely scaled up in level to accommodate for drops from monsters in the zones that are used for the obtainment/upgrading/reforging of armor (Empyrean armor or Legion armor, respectively) as well as for the final stages of AF, Relic, and Empyrean weapons.
• Due to the volume of level scaling that was done to Abyssea zones, players are unable to access any Abyssea zone until their are level 75 or higher.

• As well, content like Voidwatch has also been boosted due to drops, so again, it's ALWAYS a very wise choice to utilize the tools that have been made available for you here on HomepointXI. Your life could depend on it!!!

Support

Halp!!! I can't connect!

• After logging in with Ashita, Xiloader shows resolving host then immediately shows "closing" and disconnects:
  • If you on Windows 10, check to make sure DirectPlay is enabled. Control Panel → Programs and Features → Turn Windows feature on / off → Legacy Components → Turn on Direct Play.
  • Your FFXI client may need to be updated. Follow this guide to make sure your FFXI client is up to date.

Common issues and how to fix them

See this guide for solutions to common issues.

Help, I'm stuck! How do I get unstuck?

• Login to your user profile and use the Unstuck button under the character.

How do I change my character email or password?

Login to your user profile and use the account menu, next to Logout (at the top right). From there you can change your email or password for logging into your character.

• Adding your email to your account is very helpful should you forget your account password.
  • If this is the case, you should complete a Server Issues ticket, please use the title: Account Recovery and complete as many of the required fields in the ticket that are relevant to the issue and that you can remember. Please do not list any identifying information about the account in the ticket!.
    • A server administrator will receive the ticket and reach out to you on Discord ASAP. Your patience is very much appreciated!

Why did my party lose level sync?

• Level sync can be lost after killing 1 mob if the synced character has not defeated Maat in Shattering Stars, the quest that removes the level 70 cap. Completing this level 70 limit break quest will prevent level sync from being lost in scenarios like this.

Something is broken! I have a question! What do I do?

1. Use our Tools or our Wiki.
2. Ask the in-game HomepointXI linkshell (this is in your inventory when you first start the game) or ask on our Discord in the #general channel or the #looking-for-help channel. Experienced players can answer many questions more quickly than filing a support ticket.
3. If you don't receive a response that solves your issue or if you can't find the answer that you seek on our Tools or our wiki, you can file a support ticket:
   • For HomepointXI game server issues.
   • For HomepointXI.com website only issues.

Version Mismatch

• Depending on when you last performed a file check in POL, your client version may not match the version that HomepointXI server is using. If this is so, you will receive a message, in game, regarding the version mismatch.
  • Use the /ver and !ecv Player Commands to determine your client version and HomepointXI server version (respectively)
    • If your client version is older than the server version, you should perform a version update after first verifying with a GM/Admin.
    • If your client version is newer than the server version, there is nothing that can be done and you must wait for the server version to be updated or until further guidance is communicated from a GM/Admin on how to proceed.

Other Issues / Exploits

• For all issues except server exploits, please first reach out to the server community to see if someone else has previously experienced your issue and is able to assist you. If no one is able to, or if at the direction of a GM, please submit a ticket.
• For exploits, please attempt to first contact a GM on Discord or in game if they are online or secondly, an Admin. PLEASE DO NOT FILE A TICKET FOR AN EXPLOIT.
  

• Server/Game Tickets
  
• Website Tickets
  
• HomepointXI Discord
  
• HomepointXI Admin and GM List

Have a question?

If you have a question about something that wasn't already answered by anything in this guide, your resolution steps should be as follows:

1. Use the Tools on the HomepointXI website (BCNM Tool, Character Tool, Item Tool, Monster Tool, Bluemage Tool).
2. Use the HomepointXI wiki, noting all the sections the Main Page as well as static parts like the Left Sidebar (always located along the left-side of wiki) and the Search Box (always located in upper-right corner of the wiki).
3. Asking other players in game using the global linkpearl that every player starts out with.
4. Asking other players on our Discord.

Official Resources

HomepointXI Website

HomepointXI.com

HomepointXI Wiki

HomepointXI Wiki

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to player Kairo for their contribution towards the creation of this guide. :)