Welcome! This repository is home to the Final Fantasy XI private server community. This repository serves to hold information regarding all things private servers for FFXI. You will find information regarding the available private servers you can play on, additional information about our community, information about the available server core to build and host your own server, and more.
The private server community for FFXI is full of various servers available for anyone to play on. Each server has its own vision and goals in regards to how the server is setup, configured, and what contain is made available. Some servers strive to replicate original retail eras of the game (ie. old school CoP, Treasures, etc.) while others aim to provide a customized expeience with their own custom content, modifications to existing content and more.
You can find a list of available servers here: Server List
Note
To help declutter the main server list page, the list is generalized to key aspects about each server. For much more detailed information about each server, be sure to check the servers individually linked custom advertisement page. These individual pages hold much more detail about the server, its various configurations (ie. rates) and available content.
Are you the owner of a server and are looking to either submit your server to our lists or update an existing listing? If so, please be sure to first check the Server List Guidelines documentation for more information.
New servers are expected to meet a set of requirements to be added to the server lists here. These requirements are designed to avoid having hundreds of servers that will disappear within a week of launching because the owner does not understand the work involved to run a successful server.
Existing servers updating their advertisemen document also need to adhere to some moderation rules listed in the guidelines documentation.
Our community has two primary means of communication and discussions; Discord and Reddit
Our subreddit has been the original means of advertisement and open discussions about private servers. Over the last few years, we have narrowed down the goals and objectives of the sub to be more focused on a few key things.
- Server Advertisements
- Server Reviews / Feedback
- General Discussions
First and foremost, the sub has been used as a means for server owners to advertise their servers and post about major updates/patches. Following this, we have greatly encouraged the general players to also leave feedback posts and reviews about the servers they play on. This allows others to get a feel about each server, its staff, and playerbase before making any kind of commitment to playing somewhere.
General discussions about individual server topics have been encouraged to instead take place on our newer Discord server. We currently avoid generalized discussions about servers on the sub to prevent a single server from dominating the subs front page with multiple topics. This tends to happen anytime a new server pops up and multiple new players want to discuss various aspects about the server and make a dozen different topics. Instead, users are encouraged to use our Discord instead.
You can find the subreddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FFXIPrivateServers/
Our Discord server is also used for multiple purposes such as:
- Server Advertisements
- Server Discussions / Feedback
- Developer Discussions
- Server Owner Moderation Chats / Information Sharing
Each server that wishes to be listed is welcome to having a channel dedicated to their server on the Discord. We have each server listed within categories based on the servers level cap and content scope. (ie. Custom or Retail-Lke)
Players are also encouraged to hold open discussions about their preferred server within these channels, be it feedback, overal reviews of the server, discussions of the servers features/content, and so on.
We also house developer discussions for private server developers / server administrators to discuss work on their own individual servers as well as discussions related to the main server core project all servers are forked from. (Please note: While we do host these channels for open developer discussions, they are NOT intended to be the means of communication for bug reports, or other similar discussions related to the server core itself. Those types of discussions and reports belong on the server core repo/issue tracker/discussions pages. See the server core information below for links.)
Once servers have gained a 'trusted' status of being active and part of the community for a period of time, staff of each server is added to a set of moderation channels that allows staff of all servers to privately communicate with each other in regards to administrative topics and issues. Such as player warnings/bans of problem players, exploit discoveries and warnings, assistance with server operations and more.
You can join our Discord here: https://discord.gg/msACzWV
The current in-development server core for Final Fantasy XI private servers is: LandSandBoat
Please note: The Final Fantasy Private Server Community operates separate from the server core project. While our communities are separate, our goals are similar. Because of this, we ask that you make use of the appropriate channels when working with the server core software / source code. While our Discord does hold discussion channels for developers, you should still report bugs/issues directly to the LandSandBoat issue tracker.
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