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S E R V E R S
There will be specialized
servers each handling different sections of PlayOnline.
For Example:
- FFXI servers
- Tetramaster servers
- Servers for managing the in-game auctions
- Servers for managing the public profiles of each user
- Servers for handling a ranking system
- Several other servers systems handling different functions within FFXI
(Item shops, game information etc.)
In all there will be 1500 servers (all running Solaris 8). In
addition to this there will be 2 SunFire6800 iUltraSparcIII/8CPU C8GB
memory) units, and a Sunstoredge (73GB triple mirror system) unit to
handle the database (running oracle 9), and 8 NFS.
The
30 servers available for you
to be randomly placed into, are as follows:
00:
Bahamut
01:
Shiva
02:
Titan
03:
Ramuh
04:
Phoenix
05:
Carbuncle
06:
Fenrir
07:
Sylph
08:
Valefor
09:
Alexander
10:
Leviathan
11:
Odin
12:
Ifrit
13:
Diablos
14:
Caitsith
15:
Quetzalcoatl
16:
Siren
17:
Unicorn
18:
Gilgamesh
19:
Ragnarok
20: Pandemonium
21: Garuda
22: Cerberus
23:
Kujata
24:
Bismarck
25: Seraph
26: Lakshmi
27:
Midgardsormr
NA PlayStation 2 and PC Beta: Cactuar
World Passes
When you first create your character, you will randomly go to one of the
servers. You will find a World Pass in certain shops throughout Vana'diel. After
you purchase one, tell the World Pass code and your servers name to
your friend(s), and your friend(s) will be able to come to the same server. You can
invite up to one person within one week. You will have to wait after a week
if you want to invite more than one person to the same server. But in order
to invite more than one, you will have to buy another World Pass for your
server. World Passes
will be cheap in the beginning, but as the world population increases
it'll be something more expensive. It's NOT inviting them to
your server with their old character, its just entering a code into the "Create a
Character" screen (You have to make a new character to go onto the server
you were invited onto, nothing carries over) so getting clans together in the same server will be
a lot
of work.
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