If you’re looking for our setup guides, please click ‘Getting Setup’ on the navigation menu or click here. You’ll find guides on installing and updating the game, setting up Ashita or Windower, and related guides.
Help on client issues, configuration, POL- and FFXI- error messages, and troubleshooting.
Help with content and expansion questions, characters (creating, modifying), communication/linkshells, partying, chat, and quest troubleshooting.
Help with common questions about jobs, how general game mechanics work, leveling up, and crafting.
Absolutely! We work to keep our New Players Guide updated with suggestions from the community.
Absolutely not. We will never charge players any sort of currency or tradable item for playing on Nocturnal Souls. This is a 100% free service provided by a team of passionate players. If you’re looking to spend some money, buy a sub for the FFXI retail and support further development on the core game–it’s a fantastic game!
Yes! If you visit the Members Portal at https://members.nocturnalsouls.net, you can search for mobs, items, and see all of your personal stats.
Log in using your account credentials you use to log into the game.
At this time, no, we do not support character imports or exports. The progression of our server is quite different from other servers and our code and database isn’t exactly aligned with DSP nor those servers running the LegionDark code base.
Currently, DSP supports up to 4 characters on an account. Creating more than this can cause the account to become inaccessible due to a long-standing bug in DSP.
Players can have as many accounts as they want, however, we only allow 3 accounts to be logged in concurrently from the same household/IP address.
You sure can! Be sure to log out of your character first and go to the Members Portal. Click Me > {Character Name} and then click your profile picture. You can change your face (including many of the rare/NPC faces), race, and gender as often as you like.
Gender specific gear, such as those provided by events and the Dancer artifact and relic gear, will not change to your new gender if you change it. If you have a full set of female dancer gear and change to male, you’ll need to reacquire a full set of male dancer gear.
At this time, not without the intervention of a GM. Due to the server storing logs, auction house records, and other histories by player name, not ID, we do not allow players to casually change their name.
We do allow name changes in the event of:
If you have a concern about your character’s name, please contact a member of staff.
Unless there’s an emergency, Nocturnal Souls plans for server maintenance weekly at 10am CT on Monday mornings. If there isn’t a reason to take the services down, then we won’t. Be sure to watch the #updates channel in Discord for details. We’ll always announce planned outages along with any update notes in there.
If it’s an emergency, we may take down services at any time, but will work with the online playerbase to give people enough time to get to a safe spot and logout.
If you’ve asked in Discord, specifically in the #support channel, it’s possible simply no one is around right now. Even when staff members are not around, our community will try to help out the best they can to answer questions, in Discord or the NocturnalSouls linkshell.
Please keep in mind that all staff members are volunteers and have responsibilities outside of Nocturnal Souls. A team member will get back to you as soon as possible.
The NocturnalSouls linkshell provides global chat; however, as with some private servers, the /say channel is not a global chat channel. It’s just, in our opinion, weird and makes it difficult for people in groups or nearby to chat outside of tells.
You bet! Since FFXI now supports TWO equipped linkshells, you can have the NocturnalSouls LS and a private LS equipped at the same time. Check the city vendors to purchase a linkshell.
This is to do with DSP’s wonky handling of party packets. Sometimes you’ll notice the alliance or party break, people appearing in parties when they’re not, or just mass confusion overall.
To fix this, please use the commands /pcmd leave or /pcmd breakup (for parties) OR /acmd leave or /acmd breakup (for alliances) to save yourself the hassle of having to relog each time.
No. We’re seriously serious about privacy. We do not audit, store, or display any chat streams or communications, public or private. The only thing we can see is that {Person A} sent a message on a channel (tell, linkshell, shout, say, etc) and we don’t even store that once the server resets.
That said, YOU should audit your own chat. Don’t send passwords or other secure information to other people (ever) and be wary of what personal information you tell people in game. #basicrulesoftheinternetapplyhere. =]
Things we do log and monitor: