Server Rules

While Era is a fairly laid back private server, there are some common rules we all play under to keep it a fair, competitive, and friendly environment.

Rule Infractions

The Era GM team will examine rule infractions and rule on the appropriate punishment as they see fit. These can lead up to and including termination of your accounts, or possibly banning you from the server entirely. With this knowledge, please do your best to abide by the rules located here.

Server Rules

All of these are expanded upon below, you can read those by clicking on the rule.

1) No harassment or hate speech.

2) No cheating.

3) Multiboxing is allowed up to 6 characters.

4) No holding of NMs.

5) Absolutely no RMT involvement.

6) Account sharing is done at your risk, GMs will not intervene with disputes.

7) Dynamis-specific rules.

8) No actions or activities that could lead to the harm of the server hardware and software, its staff, or players

No Harassment or Hate Speech

We're all here to enjoy the FFXI experience Era provides. Please be respectful of your fellow adventurers.

Teh_Social linkshell is made up of players from around the world. Please keep racial, religious, and sexual slurs out of it since not all players may understand your intentions through text, be there harmful or not.

If you are chatting in another linkshell where the players will understand such banter, that's fine. Just do your best to recognize and respect that others are having to interpret your intentions only through text. English may or may not be their first language, and common local slang may not be understood.

If someone feels offended enough to submit a ticket for harassment, you might have crossed a line you should have respected. If a GM has a discussion with you and gives you a warning, it is advised you examine your actions and heed their words. It is possible that you may or may not get a first warning, depending on the infraction. If you happen to get one, don't expect a third chance.

No Cheating

This is fairly obvious and people like to play the dumb card or push the gray line. Cheating is using any practice or 3rd party program/script/addon/plugin (referred to collectively as "tools" below) that is not approved to gain an unfair advantage. Even if it does not directly harm others, if it is still an infraction.

Some common examples:

-No use of tools to automate in-game actions. While use of Ashitacast or Gearswap is allowed, running a profile or other tool that automates curing, nuking, buffing, mining, logging, fishing, etc. are not. The one noted exception is that skill-up scripts are allowed. Please use them outside of cities and popular zones as to not spam others' chatlogs or holding popular EXP mobs as skill-up targets.

-No speed adjustment or POS hacks. Someone will see you eventually and you'll be dealt with.

-No tools that automate crafting beyond ones that repeatedly use /lastsynth. If your tool allows you to queue up multiple recipes and leave for hours, do not use it.

-No exploits. If you stumble upon something that causes the game to not act correctly, please submit a ticket so that it can be fixed. This can be very harmful to the server and its economy, let alone the play experience of others.

You may view the list of approved Ashita and Windower addons or plugins here. In addition, DAT mobs that change in-game graphics like XiView and XiVision are allowed.

Any other tools not mentioned above or here are not allowed. If you would like something added, please discuss it with the staff on Discord.

Multiboxing is allowed up to 6 characters

You may login to up to 6 characters at once currently. This is any combination of characters doing any activities on the server, including bazaaring, grinding experience points, or farming. If you are using tools to automate gathering or impossible simultaneous actions, that is against the rules (see "No Cheating").

Note that any process used to get around this character limit is a rule infraction and will be dealt with by the GM staff.

This allowance is a privilege and you must play responsibly with all of your characters. Performing actions that cause zone crashes or otherwise hinder the enjoyment of the server may cause you to be on the receiving end of a talk with a GM.

No holding of NMs

No one is permitted to hold monsters longer than a reasonable amount of time for party members to gather (generally 10 minutes). You may not drag it far from its spawn point, either. Keep it within 2-3 squares of its spawn location on the map.

If the mob turns yellow because you didn't maintain hate on it, and someone else claims it, that's too bad. Adjust your strategy or prepare better in advance next time.

A player wishing to do so may kite an NM to death, but must be making an earnest effort to kill it over time.

A GM, if called, will be the one making a decision whether or not this rule is being followed. You will respect their decision and not react like a spoiled brat. Or else they have cart blanche in dealing with your attitude issue.

Absolutely no RMT involvement

Very, very simple. No real life currency is to be traded for any in-game currency, accounts, activity, or items. Period. If you want to engage in RMT, make a character on the retail server Asura and enjoy the cesspool there. It's not happening here. No arguments on this topic will be heard, no matter how flawed your logic or perspective is.

Account sharing is done at your risk

There is no explicit rule against account sharing currently, provided you do not attempt to exceed the limits on the number of accounts you are allowed to login in at once.

Your account is yours. If you trust a linkshell member to use it to login to lot on a drop while you're at work, that's your call. Realize that if they're caught breaking a rule while logged into your account, you might lose your account along with any other account involved in the situation.

That's a hell of a risk, right? Be certain who you trust with your characters.

If you collect linkshell members accounts and attempt to bot as an alliance, you're going to get every account banned. Period.

Dynamis-specific rules

Getting Dynamis clears takes priority over any other activity in the city or dreamlands zones, along with Dynamis-Glacier. This means if you are farming and a party of players informs you they intend to come in to do a Dynamis clear run in a short bit for a newer player, then you must either vacate or assist them in achieving that goal.

You may not AFK in a Dynamis zone longer than it takes to run to the bathroom. AFKing prevents the zone from resetting, holding it hostage. This is similar to holding NMs and hinders the game experience of others.

If you see another person is in the zone, you are encouraged to send them a tell and discuss your intentions about entering it. Often, it's better to either coordinate to be at separate locations inside or work together and split the results. Realize that if you're just farming, they have every right to come in and farm as well.

Any player is only allowed to be inside a single Dynamis zone at any time, regardless of how many accounts they're playing on.

All players are encouraged to reflect that Dynamis-Jeuno currently has a one hour lockout due to players not learning to play well with each other. If GMs have to deal with too many issues, other similar adjustments are likely to occur. So be excellent to each other!

No actions or activities that could lead to the harm of the server hardware and software, its staff, or players

This should be the obvious catch-all rule. Any action or activity in or outside of the game that will negatively affect the server, its staff or players will result in consequences leading up to and including termination of accounts or banning. This includes harassment, doxxing, stalking, and other such activities IN and OUT of the game. Learn to grow up and move on from whatever is bothering you about a person or face the consequences.

Closing

We want Era to be a fair place for every player. If you are caught breaking the rules you will be punished. If you believe another player is breaking the rules, please submit a ticket and give as much information as possible. Thanks for reading.

Old Rules Page from Jedi

No Haressment & Discrimination

We're all here enjoying the FFXI experience we all know and love. Please be respectful to your fellow adventurers.

Teh Social Linkshell is made up of players from all around the world. Please keep any racial, religious, and sexual slurs & jokes AWAY from Teh Social Linkshell. Theres a good chance you will offend people. If you have other private or end game Linkshells where you know the players and understand they can take your banter, that's fine. Just make sure you keep it in your private Linkshells and far away from Teh Social. We're more than players, theres actually a person on the other side of the monitor. Sometimes its easy to forget that. We aren't playing call of duty, we're playing FFXI, so give it the respect it deserves.
Please be respectful, Thank You.

No Cheating

Its pretty simple. Everyone has played a video game before, you know what cheating is. No Cheating of any kind is allowed on ERA. Since every player who gets caught cheating plays the dumb card. I'll spell it out a bit more clearly.

No Botting. Any type of bot, script, or program that allows you to play the game while not touching your keyboard, mouse, controller, VR headset, or whatever the potatos you play the game with is 100% off limits on FFERA, don't do it. What does this mean? You know what it means. Whether its botting exp mobs or gil mobs, its still botting. Whether your botting your character to run from point a to point b, its still botting. It means if you have a WHM alt and its cure botting your alliance during an event, its botting. I'm not sure I can be more clear about this. Don't try to twist the rules in your favor, it won't work.

Your allowed to use Send for multiboxing. After all its a Windower Addon
Your allowed to use script macros to skill up magic.
What does this mean? It means your allowed to use a .txt script that casts bio over and over again on a mob for Skilling up Magic. It means your allowed to cast cure or barfira on your self over and over again while your afk. The only time its 100% okay to afk while using a script is skilling up magic you can cast on your self. You can do this in a zone where not many people are near by, so it doesn't flood everyones chat.
Your allowed to afk and craft, example. You gotta skill up from lvl 20-27 in a craft. You can make a /lastsynth script to craft every 24 seconds, thats fine.

No Position & Speed Hacks. If your running faster than the Flash, than your either a GM, a Mentor in town, or Cheating. Also don't go teleporting to sea or sky when you clearly don't have access. Speed and Position Hacks are off limits.


No Exploiting. Please, pretty please. If your one of those lucky players who find something odd thats clearly an exploit, make a ticket right away. Don't abuse it to your heart's content. If its to good to be true, than you most likely just found an exploit. Either way, if your unsure if it is or not, still make a ticket.

If a GM catches you cheating, you will be penalized by that GM how they see fit. If a GM catches you again, your Jobs start going down to level 1 and whatever else we want to do with your account. Third time involves Khaleesi and her Dragons. Just because I didn't list every cheat that exists, doesn't mean your allowed to do it. Stop making dumb excuses that won't work

Multiboxing

Your only allowed to have a maximum of 6 seperate accounts logged on at a time. A mule in bazaar is okay.

Hyper Notorious Monsters

Kiting & holding HNM. If your going to kite & hold a HNM, stay within a reasonable distance of its spawn location.(two-three map squares) You have to show signs your going to kill a kited mob within 10 minutes, any forms of kiting is fine. Important note while kiting. If your MOB turns yellow and others claim it, that's your fault for not keeping damage on it while kiting & holding your mob.

Note. I'm not talking about a kill + kite strategy. If you have a group and your strategy is to kite it while killing it, this is fine and the rule above doesn't apply to you. The kiting rule is for players who are 1 or 2 players trying to kite & hold a HNM around while waiting for back up.

Your not allowed to pull an HNM across the map to "hide" it. We aren't in some massive 1-3k player base server. We're a small community that is thriving well, we want the option for all types of players to be able to obtain a ToD if they take the time to go out and get it.

Understand this rule can be judged by any GM that's online at the time.

One last thing. Just because I didn't mention normal mobs or NM's like Leaping Lizzy, doesn't mean you can kite small fry NM's across the map for hours. Man up and fight to the death. Its understandable if newer players run far away, but hopefully they read this.

No RMT

Real Money Trades are NOT ALLOWED. If we find out you are involved in any RMT your character won't exist anymore, no second chances. Examples of RMT would be. Buying someones KC with real money. Buying your friends account with real money. Buying someones gil with real money. Just to be clear. Donating to the server for cosmetics, flashy ws's, and chocobo whistles are different. That money goes towards the server cost, the rest is donated towards a worthy cause. For example Hurricane relief. We want our FFXI ERA World to be just that, a world of fantasy. So please use the fantasy money known as gil when making transactions. Thank you.

Account Sharing

Your allowed to share your account information. We highly recommend that you don't.
WARNING BEEP BEEP BEEP!! You better trust that person very well. If your account is caught breaking the rules it will still be punished no matter if it was you or the person you gave your account info to. SO PLEASE absolutely trust any individual before even thinking about sharing your account information.
Password changes will be more difficult or impossible for players who account share. Retrieving old accounts or items on an account, same deal. If you account share things get difficult cause theres more than one party involved. You were warned.

Dynamis Etiquette

Wins. Wins take priority over all types of farming.. If You have a linkshell event scheduled to go get some wins or even just threw a group together from Tehsocial then kindly ask whoever is occupying the zone to leave so your group may reset the zone and go get the win!

Groups. Not everyone finds enjoyment from solo farming Dynamis with a BLM mindless for hours on end. We have added 100's to drop at a 1.5% chance from statue spawned regular Dynamis mobs in all zones. If you have thrown together a group (not 6box armies!!!) and wanna go farm but there is a solo BLM inside farming then kindly ask them to join or step aside.

Solo Farmers. (BLM or BLU) Solo farmers are allowed to farm any zone they want.. Some zones are more difficult than others. If you find a free zone and would like to farm it feel free! This being said, no one owns a zone. If someone is inside that zone you want then you may enter on top of them if you wish but doing this will generally start an argument. I think I speak for the majority of the server when I say be patient. Ask the farmer how long they intend on using the zone prior to entering.. Generally you will be able to work out a compromise..

AFK. Absolutely no going AFK inside of any Dynamis zone. No brainer.. People can not reset with you AFK inside.

Multiboxing. Feel free to multibox but understand you will be treated the same way as a Solo farmer would be. This being said, Under No Circumstances can you occupy more than one zone at any given time.

Dynamis is a vital piece of endgame content for ERA. Tempers can flare, things can be said just know that at the end of the day its still a Game.. Be kind to each, reach a reasonable agreement and bottom-line do not bring your ensuing arguments to our Helpdesk.. We don't like issuing Time-outs....

Other Useful Information. Just consider them rules as well.

When using FFXI Wiki, change its history to a 2008 date

If your doing Maat's Cap Quest. Please take Screen Shots of the kills, Thank you.

Don't trade your 10k currency to the goblin & Don't start a second relic quest before finishing the currently active one.

While doing Promies take the portals up one at a time or risk black screen.

If your new check out the Welcome to ERA guide.

We want FFERA to be a fair place for every player. If you are caught breaking the rules you will be punished. If you believe another player is breaking the rules, please submit a ticket and give as much information as possible. Thanks for reading.