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Tibia.pl no longer supported!
Written by Saint Louis, on 07 May 2008
Tibia.pl is no longer a supported fansite and linking to this website in-game or on the official boards is now against the rules.
They were asked multiple times to remove links that lead to illegal websites but they refused, and for this they have lost their position as a supported fansite.
Forum changes, new staff
Written by Stern, on 27 April 2008
As you probably would have noticed, we've updated the forums slightly. As from today we've split the Swedish and Norwegian section of the forum in to two seperate categorys, so enjoy.
So far, we've promoted 4 people in to the TibiaNordic Staff position! Please welcome Starlight Betty, Sir Rickard, Erdman and SawGold to the staff team!! Remember that the application board is still open and that we are still looking for new people to join the staff!
-Tibianordic Staff
Designing competition
Written by Steven, on 22 April 2008
Have you ever wanted to see your own item being used in Tibia? Maybe this is your chance. Design your own item and maybe it will be selected by CipSoft to be used in game as competition reward. The best items will be submitted to Jan, the graphic artist of CipSoft, and he will make the final decision about the winning item which will be used in game. Furthermore you’ll be the first owner of this item and the 3 best submissions will receive a one month premium time as well as a surprise. Check out this topic for more information.
Blizzard Sues Bot Developer!
Written by Stern, on 17 April 2008
Although not Tibia related, Blizzard Entertainment (World of Warcraft) is suing the maker of a bot called MMO Glider. The bot enables players to play WoW without the need for anyone to be behind the keyboard.
According to the reports, a Vivendi games lawyer visited his house over the tool he developed. The developer, Michael Donnelly, said that this was how he found out about the legal complaint in the first place. Blizzard argues that the tool breaches copyright, the End User License Agreement and disrupts the balance of the game.
A trial version of the tool is free, but full versions are sold for 25$. According to the reports, over 100,000 copies of the tool were sold. The tool seems to be powerful too. According to the FAQ, "Glider works a lot like a regular player. It looks at your health, mana, energy, etc. It moves the mouse around and pushes keys on the keyboard. You tell it about your character, where you want to kill things, and what to kill. Then it kills for you, automatically. You can do something else, like eat dinner or go to a movie, and when you return, you'll have a lot more experience and loot."
Donnelly reportedly said that the development of the tool technically doesn't violate the EULA as it does not make a copy of the game data.
The official MMO Glider forums seem to be buzzing with discussion on the topic. In response to the following:
"Blizzard has said the tool infringes copyright because it copies the game into RAM in order to avoid detection by anti-cheat software."
KrTech writes:
It would be fun to prove that, since WoW loads itself into RAM when you try to play. And I don't think Glider actually copies all the memory WoW uses and then reads it, that would be stupid. Instead it probably looks for very specific information that is located somewhere in that giant heap of info WoW loads and then processes it, that doesn't even mean it is directly copied. As BBC puts it, that case is going nowhere.
"if there are other [programmers] out there that copy to RAM then a judgement in favour of Bliz in this case would open up lot in lots of other areas of industry." writes ILikeToBot.
D3m0nik points out the following, "The use of Glider is against the EULA. But the creation of it, may not be, which is what they are fighting about."
A very interesting case, which also asks the question "will CipSoft and other game developers follow Blizzards example?"
TibiaNordic looking for staff!
Written by Stern, on 16 April 2008
TibiaNordic are officially looking for new people in the Tibian community to join our staff! We are looking for people who will help us post news, articles and general translations for the website and forum.
If you are interested in joining the staff, please don't hesitate to make a post in the application board of our forum, leaving some basic details about yourself (name, age, location), and also a little information on why you would like to join our staff.
Everything you post on the application board is private and won't be visible to anyone else except for current staff members.
Thanks!
Minor patch released today - New Tibia Rules
Written by CipSoft, on 08 April 2008
Today, we have launched Tibia client version 8.11. As we have already announced in this month's featured article, the main change of this update concerns the Tibia name rules. We have decided for this step to make the rules easier to understand and to meet the community's wish for more tolerance in this matter. Most importantly, you may name your character after objects and celebrities now. Your name may contain references to a country, and we have discarded the rule to fake other player names. Please note that all names rules do not only apply to character names but also to guild names, ranks and titles.
However, in order to keep a rather unified look to all names, we have added some more technical limits to create names. You cannot create names with more than 3 words anymore or names that contain special characters such as a hyphen.
Furthermore, we have revised some other Tibia Rules in order to make them easier to understand. Apart from the structure, however, no significant changes have been made for Tibia Rules 2-5.
With this patch, the revised Tibia Rules become valid. Please all read the Tibia Rules and particularly the comments to make sure you understand all rules correctly. Please remember that we will not unlock any character names that have been illegal under the old name rules but would be legal under the new regulations.
In addition to the Tibia Rule changes, we have also implemented some adjustments to the current potion system. The prices of all health potions have been reduced:
* Normal Health Potion: 45 gp (before 50 gp)
* Strong Health Potion: 100 gp (before 110 gp)
* Great Health Potion: 190 gp (before 250 gp, however, also the average healing of this potion was slightly reduced from 600 to 500)
Moreover, we have added two completely new potions:
Ultimate Health Potion
for knights of level 130 or higher
costs: 310 gp
restores on average: 750 hit points
Great Spirit Potion
for paladins of level 80 or higher
costs: 190 gp
restores on average: 300 hit points & 150 mana
Finally, we have adjusted several creatures concerning loot, hit and experience points, armor, speed, attacks etc., e.g. all djinns yield more experience points and loot now, the hit and experience points of vampires were raised.
The update patch will download automatically when you log into the game. If you should encounter any problems, you can alternatively download the new client 8.11 from this website.
All Linux users who had problems in the past playing Tibia are advised to download the new client completely from our website. The new Linux client contains some extra files which will not be provided if you simply patch your current version.
Enjoy our latest patch!
Your CipSoft Team
