HorizonXI – Era+ 75 Cap FFXI Server Launching December 17th, 2022

[Tyrath]

Windower will not be allowed, right? Alt-tabbing wouldn't give that classic 75 feel.

I don't think I ever played without windower on PC lol

[Lucavi]

I did, waaaay back in mid 04. Shit sucked. If you tabbed out, the shit crashed.

But you know: perfect game: greatest game in the world because I played it when I was 12-16, yadda yadda.

[Kipling]

We have an entire section dedicated to Windower and Ashita add-ons, so yes it is allowed. Note this list is constantly changing so the discord is most up to date until the webpage is updated to match it - https://horizonxi.com/addons

[Wulfgang]

Problem with this is that ToAU came out AFTER the glorious holy age of XI: RotZ. The only time this game "mattered" was when it was all about botting Nidhogg in the Aery. Everything else was just fluff.

For the core leveling experience in the "Golden Age", leveling sucked. Crabs, beetles, the occasional lizard, mandies and eventually you hit Sky and you better have a bard, fucko.

I hit 75 on Aura Statues in sky in OG XI, and that was actually considered an exceptional camp at like 7k/hr or whatever it was. Ridill WAR / KC RNG spam on Dec Weaps in the Shrine was like the pinnacle of XI experience camps at the time at ~11k/hr. Once ToAU released, the whole paradigm changed in a hurry; 18k+ xp/hr in Bhaflau np.

I feel like the make or break is gonna be how many people seriously want to level up crafts at x1 rate on a server that could shut down any time.

Nobody is wearing a Haubergeon or Scorpion Harness for weeks, if not months.

People will hit 100s (or at least 80+ for GSM/BSM/CC) shockingly fast even at 1.0x. It's kind of like Vanilla WoW; people have optimized the heck out of the craft path and securing mats at this point to get there pretty quickly. There will be natural gating for Oric/Adaman/etc. that will make those paths take longer, but you'll probably start to see SHs/Hauby's/etc. ~3 or so weeks in.

[Korialstrasz]

As someone who has played on multiple private servers, I'm definitely looking forward to it. Not giving any details on job changes sucks though. I get wanting people to find things out for themselves, but just say "PLD now gets -dt traits" or some shit, damn. It won't ruin the sense of exploration by giving a few specific details to help get people hooked or to quell all the skepticism.

My biggest worry though is the inevitable drama that breaks out on every server from people running it. Mods playing favourites, power trips, etc. I had a lot of fun on Wings but straight up quit when the owners response to me finding and reporting a gil dupe was that I was just making it up and to go eat shit. I even sent detailed videos of how to do it, but instead they called me a cuck and blocked me. Then he immediately patched it, as is tradition with things that apparently aren't real.

So I guess my question is how does Horizon plan on being different in those regards? Everyone likes to say they're different and it won't happen here, but it always happens anyway.

[Kipling]

We have a comprehensive staff code of conduct and staff members are required to uphold it. If a staff member is not acting appropriately, they will be disciplined/removed.

[Spicyryan]

We have a comprehensive staff code of conduct and staff members are required to uphold it. If a staff member is not acting appropriately, they will be disciplined/removed.

Oh no, not being kicked off the recreational squad!

The whole image being portrayed here over a passion project in a long series of similar passion projects that continue to rise and fall is a bit over the top.

[Kipling]

Our launcher download is now live! Please go here to download the executable. We also put out a launcher install guide:



Please note that your download may be slow at first but it will speed up as more people begin seeding.

[Spicyryan]

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[Salodin]

So what is the deal with the .dat mining for Horizon being deleted if shared to the Discord?

Is this true? Cause if so, lol wtf are you guys even doing?

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[Julian]

How dare you mess with our vision of 75 era by using tools that were *shocked pikachu face* actually already available at that time!

[Spicyryan]

Is this true? Cause if so, lol wtf are you guys even doing?

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No specifics on changes.

No staff contributions to the Horizon wiki.

No sharing dat mined stuff.

[Prothescar]

[Obsidian]

As we all know, sharing information was a big no-no in the CoP era.

[Wulfgang]

There have been over 6,000 characters created already >_>; Going to feel like 2005 Asura out the gate.

[Spicyryan]

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[Kipling]

I know you guys are trolling, but you can share it, just not on our discord. You'll live.

Also the number of characters made is over 7500 now.

[The Stig]

Someone power level BST to 35 please and try to release a mob way beyond its spawn point xD

[Akiyama]

Updooting. Hopefully the server can work just a-ok, even with the huge amount of sign-ups. Am sure it won't be like hard stuck at 6k concurrent all day err day, but still quite impressive. Looking forward to it!

[Spicyryan]

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