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The MMORPG FFXI has been out for more than 4 years, the number of players is over 800,000 now and the amazing thing is this number is still increasing. This guide is basically for players that has only been in Vana' diel for less than 6 months or those who still has some basic problem with this game. Don't be shame, this game is basically hardcore-related , I've played it for more than 2 years but sometimes I still feel like a n00b in some cases. >.< Blame Square-Enix for hidding almost everything from us...... My purpose of writing this guide is to remind new players not to forget something that you are supposed to have already done it, I don't offer
you mission details because it's your job to find out them^^ English is not my mother language so I can only try my best to explain my opinions, if you see any error in grammer or contents, please send an E-mail to flamedust@hotmail.com, I'll fix it asap, thank you!

This guide will be divided into some parts based on your level:

-------------Lv0: Before entering the game---------------

Payment:
You can purchase this game from www.amazon.com, the most recently released expansion pack is Treasue of Aht Urgan, it's recommanded to buy the Vana' diel Collection which was released on Nov. 2006. It contains all the expansion discs including ToAU, and costs about 30 US dollars in total. If you buy another kind of pack without ToAU or CoP, you probably will want to pay much more money for these discs. Once registed , you will get an open content ID, with this content ID you can build a new character, if you want more characters for item storage etc., you need to purchase more content IDs. The month fee of your first content ID is 12.99 dollars or euros, extra content IDs cost 1 dollar or euro/month. Yes, EU players has to pay more '_'

Server:
There are more than 30 servers of FFXI Gil, all of them are in Japan, and each of them has players from all over the world, don't worry about the connction speed, it doesn't matter too much. If you don't have a friend who is already playing game, you will not be able to choose the server, registration sever will assign you to a server randomly. If you want to play with your friend , you can ask him/her to buy you a World Pass from a NPC in game.