Nocturnal Souls is a safe, fun community that has zero tolerance for harassment anywhere within the community–in game, on discord, or otherwise.
A general rule of thumb: if you have to ask yourself “is this okay?”, then assume it’s not. 😉
Nocturnal Souls is a service provided to the public at no charge because we’re passionate about having fun in Final Fantasy XI and creating a fun, exciting environment for others
At this time, we allow up to two additional “alt” accounts that players can automate using tools like CurePlease. For example, a WHM/SCH alt and a BRD alt.
These alts are meant to support the main character as they are playing the game in the event that community members are not around. Since CurePlease can’t engage, fight, or attack, it’s quite easy to spot who’s violating this rule and using an unapproved scripting system.
Keep in mind that Final Fantasy XI is a bit flaky with multi-boxing and multiple accounts logging in via the same IP address. This can lead to cutscene breaking, missions not updating correctly, rewards not updating correctly, or characters timing out during zoning. In addition, multi-boxing is not allowed in instance zones, such as Dynamis and Limbus as it will crash the zone server.
Also keep in mind that players who multibox are reducing the individual gains of each individual character and could extend the amount of time it takes to grow characters as the alts require gear, currency, and progression as well.
Players should multi-box at their own risk. The Nocturnal Souls team is not responsible for broken quest updates, corrupted characters, or locked accounts causes by multi-boxing.
The Nocturnal Souls community team will frequently hold sponsored events open to all players. Many of these events do have requirements, such as level and gear, but others are open to all players.
During these sponsored events, it is expected that players will follow the same guidelines as always; however, there are additional rules that apply:
During player events (those organized by non-staff members), rules around loot, participants, and targets are set forth by the sponsor of the event. Nocturnal Souls staff can provide mediation in the event of a dispute; however, keep in mind that being a jerk and not playing well with others will likely mean you’re simply not invited to participate in future events hosted by that sponsor (and the same, of course, works in reverse for sponsors and players).
The Nocturnal Souls community is made up of a diverse group of individuals from all backgrounds, nationalities, and walks of life. Harassment has a zero tolerance policy within the Nocturnal Souls community that will result in either jail time or a permanent ban from the Nocturnal Souls community.
Some examples of harassment behavior include, but are not limited to:
If you feel you are being targeted by harassment, please contact a GM or Staff Member on Discord immediately with log screenshots and any details you can provide. Keep in mind that we do not log chat, so screenshots of conversations and comments are required.
While it’s assumed that all players are mature members of a helpful community, there are several activities considered unacceptable as a whole and will result in either jail time or, potentially, a permanent ban from the server.
At this time, plugins, addons, and automation tools (“bots”) that alter the intended play of the game are not allowed on Nocturnal Souls.
These include, but are not limited to: automation tools, including third-party external tools, automatic repeated click/macro tools, position, movement, and teleport hacks, item duping, item stat-changing, door opening and manipulation, most treasure pool management plugins, and other bypass of normal game function.
These do not include things that are client-side only, such as .DAT and sound modifications.
The following are known plugins, addons, and third-party tools that are explicitly banned from use. This is not an exhaustive list; however, a good rule of thumb is that if the tool gives you an unfair advantage over other players or bypasses general game mechanics, then it’s not allowed.
Use of these plugins will result in characters being jailed for up to 24 hours; repeat offenders will be jailed for incrementally longer periods. Overall, we rely on the players and community to make the right decisions when choosing which plugins they’ll use when playing on the server as, in many cases, the community will police itself as many of these hacks have very apparent visual indicators.
“It doesn’t hurt anyone!”
“That’s not fair!”
“I can use that over on {x} server!”
Many, if not all, of these tools and plugins are unnecessary due to the environment of Nocturnal Souls. Skill ups, exp farming, movement, and progression all simplified and/or entirely removed. What these cause is a requirement on the development and community staff to sort out when/if these are causing issues, not just for the player using the addons, but for the server itself.
Examples:
Each of these require the community team to intervene and ‘fix’ that individual.
We’ve reviewed CurePlease and the CurePlease addon and approve of players using this bot as a cure/buff bot up until the point that Trusts become available to players.
CurePlease is a third-party, external application that allows players to have a secondary character follow them around casting heals and buffs. This tool doesn’t support casting offensive abilities or engaging with targets.
However, this bot (just as with any multi-boxing), cannot be used in Dynamis, Limbus, or other zones that do not support multi-boxing.
We’ve tested and support CurePlease, available at https://github.com/DanielHazzard/Cure-Please/releases.
Please be sure to configure CurePlease to use the addon for communication for the best game play experience.
We’ve review crafty and, at this time, approve the use of this plugin.
Crafty provides a set recipe list and automated crafting for players. Since crafting rank to rank is fairly quick, there’s very little ‘unattended’ time players would have when using Crafty (as they’d hit the rank barrier and stop gaining skill ups).
We’ve reviewed ja0wait and, at this time, approve the use of this plugin.
ja0wait is a plugin for both Windower and Ashita that disables the ‘animation lock’ of job abilities and weaponskills.
While it does allow players to move while using abilities, that behavior is more “modern” and nearer to FFXIV behavior, which matches the combat flow of the Nocturnal Souls server.
That said, allowance of this will likely mean that some PBAoEs and gaze effects could have shorter casting times since players can react immediately.
We’ve reviewed both gearswap and Ashitacast and approve of these plugins and the scripting language they use.
Using Ashitacast to automate claiming mobs is considered botting and will be treated as such.
Both of these gear set automation tools provide players with a near endless scriptability to their gear based on all sorts of conditions. While they do potentially allow self-cast weaponskills without a target, this only affects Myrkr (since you can’t Fast Blade yourself), so there’s no problem seen with this at this time.
The Auction house normally only allows seven listings per character. A DSP “bug” currently breaks this limit in a way that other servers did (and some still do) deliberately. When you have several hundred items get returned by auction expiry at once, this is more than your delivery box can hold. Any items lost in this manner will NOT be restored.
Additionally, mass listings of any single item can break that item at the AH, displaying a massive stock yet nobody can buy them at any price due to the database error this causes. This requires an individual player to list the exact same item in an insane amount many times larger than the server’s entire player base. Should this occur, the overstock will be deleted without compensation in order to rescue the database from abuse.
We don’t care if you list more than seven, but you do so at your own risk. You probably won’t have a problem unless you seriously try to break something or don’t understand the meaning of the phrase “in moderation”. Fifteen isn’t going to be a problem, 1500 almost certainly is.
For more information on the Auction House, read our quick guide.