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Hello,

I've noticed that the last few days people are making new accounts and posting viruses and other programs that will ruin your computer, I've made this thread to warn people about it and how to avoid getting those annoying viruses and other malware.

<If you don't trust>
First of all, if you want to download something then look who posted it.
-If it's some one below 20 posts becareful mostly people with low posts are posting viruses.
-Read the messages below, since...

 

I know, and I feel sorry for the 8th art competition. I know it failed but this time, this competition is more creative and hopefully more active.

This competition consist on making a new logo for OtLand. Yes, the image below Affiliates list on the top.

The winner will get the image used as OtLand's official logo, and a three month donator subscription.

The image has to...

• be the same size as the image given below.
• be based on the one we have provided.
• be in...

 

Hello people,

After a period of time we have noticed that many people are posting stuff in the wrong board and we want to remind you that this is an OpenTibia-related forum therefore posts about specific otservers should be kept in one of our
Hosted Project Boards or in the Advertisement Board. If we see these posts in the wrong board then an action will be taken so please think twice before you submit your thread! This also means for other posts that are in a wrong board.

If you...

 

Happy New Year everyone!

As you probably noticed, the forum looks a bit different now. We have upgraded to XenForo 2 and you can now enjoy some new features.

Noteworthy changes

1. There is a new skin (style) of Otland and it is very mobile-friendly. We will likely stay with this one because alternatives for XenForo 2 are not convincing, nor needed.
   I am aware that many of you would like to see a "dark" theme. Unfortunately, there are no good quality dark themes possible. If...

 

Welcome!

7 days ago, almost 30 participators had signed in for the mapping contest where we celebrating the second year anniversary of Otland!
They could choice any theme which then their map would be choosed by the public. Eventhough 10 of them did not sent their entry before the arranged deadline and therefore were disqualified.
Despite that, the remaining 20 contestants where put into 4 groups (A, B, C and D) and when that was done the poll was created and the voting was open...​

 

Hello & Welcome to OtLand.net, this is a new OtServ community launched by Mark and Kornholijo.

We hope that this community will grow fast and we will be working with it so that it'll be a fair and good community for everyone, we will be providing support when we have time at the Support board and have two active and helpful members promoted the next weekend to help us moderating & supporting you members. The faster the community grows, the faster we'll get more staff members, but until the...

 

Thank you to everyone who applied for a role on Otland!

We received numerous interesting applications and after several rounds of careful deliberations would like you to welcome the following members who were promoted!

• @Roddet taking on the role of Global Moderator, previously service as Senior Support Team member
• @Addams taking on a role of Board Moderator for the Support board, in the past serving as Senior Support Team member
• @Erikas...

 

We have finally purchased the vBulletin Project Tools, it will make it alot easier to handle bug reports, feature requests and tasks in projects.

We have placed subforums which redirects to the Project Tools for the OpenTibia project and for The Forgotten Server project.

OpenTibia developers can either reply in this thread or send me a private message if they're interested in having access to handle reports and feature requests there.

A link to the Project Tools index...

 

I've noticed that some members aren't using a 'decent language' in their posts & reports.
I want to remember everyone that this bad behaviour breaks the rules and it can be punished with a ban. (Don't ask me why the rules have been removed from the top)

By making this thread my intention is to ask all members to follow the rules of this forum.

Thanks for paying atention,
See you around

 

The maintenace for a few minutes today was done because of upgrading to vBulletin 3.7 Beta.

Please report all bugs you find in this threads here and we'll fix the bugs caused by us and the other bugs will be forwarded to vBulletins developers, please also include which template you're using if you're going to post about a bug you found.


Which of the changes made in 3.7 will I possibly notice now or in the future on OtLand?
Thread Tagging
Thread Prefixes -...

 

Hello,

Today we upgraded the forum to the latest version of XenForo forum software.

This release adds a number of significant features to XenForo, including:

• Native push notifications on supported devices/browsers
• Markdown support
• Tables
• Reactions (different kinds of "Like")
• Avatar next to "last post" information
• URL unfurling (preview of content you link to)
• Emoji enhancements including an improved smilie menu with easy emoji access
• Video uploads (Premium only)...

 

Hello!

As mentioned in this announcement, we promised you some updates to OtLand. We've just started with those updates now, but instead of applying all the updates at once we will apply changes from time to time so we can receive decent feedback from you members for the changes we make.

Today the Mapping board was moved from the Art section to the OpenTibia section and a subforum named Competitions was created. The arcade scores have been reseted to give other members a chance to...

 

Although most of you would have expected this to be the update to vBulletin 4, we are not quite there yet. We are still working on it, but we can not really estimate when it will be ready. However, we have been working on another smaller update which was just applied.

This update includes bug fixes, changes to the downloads board and changes to our staff. All the previous board moderators were promoted to global moderators, while two of our global moderators have resigned due to lack of...

 

It has been almost two weeks since our update, and as promised we would recruit more staff members after the update to be able to handle the amount of reports we receive. If you believe that you have the time to help us out to enforce the rules on OtLand, please post an application in this forum: http://otland.net/f398/. What we do look at when you post your application is not the quality of the application itself, but at what you have contributed to the forum in the past, your...

 

It's finally time to start to look for new staff members again, after demoting some of our inactive staff members. If you are interested in helping us out, please post an application in this board: http://otland.net/f398/. There is no specific template on how your post should look, you are free to structure it as you like and provide what information you feel is necessary for us to know.

We'd like to thank the following users for being with us for a long time and helping us to keep...

 

We have promoted Samme to a global moderator for doing a very good job as a board moderator, and Kula_ has joined the OtLand staff as a board moderator in the Polish board to try to keep that area under control as there has been complaints on the spam there.

In the next weeks we should have our update to vBulletin 4 ready, once we have updated we will start recruiting more staff members. If you are interested to join our staff and help us to enforce the rules you can start helping us...

 

Greetings OTLand members.

It has come to my attention that XAMPP comes with a security flaw which is exploited through the use of the WebDAV (C:/xampp/webdav) folder. A hacker could upload scripts with malicious code onto your website (a shell for instance or a DoS script), thus gaining full access to the website's files and sometimes on the entire server. Since TFS users have their database credentials in config.lua this, by extension, could give the hacker root access to the database of...

 

Due to a vulnerability in vBulletin, a user managed to gain full admin rights on the forum. We don't believe that any sensitive data such as password hashes were exposed, but it was technically possible that they were with the access level the user had, so we recommend that you change your passwords.

Because of this event, we're rushing our migration from vBulletin to the forum software XenForo and because of that the forum is unfortunately not in the state we would have wished that it was...

 

It's been a while since we were last looking for new moderators. We currently have 11 members of our Staff (Moderators and Administrators) and over 60% still visit the forum every single day! For the curious, the last time we were looking for new staff members was in 2011.

While some users may think that moderators are inactive, that is very far from the truth. We handle almost all reports within 24 hours (some escalated reports sometimes need 2-3 days), with most reports handled...

 

Recently it was found, there's an important security hole in POT (for newbies: Gesior/Unnamed AAC uses it) which displays database connection information. Here's a fast solution for XAMPP users from Xampy, which everyone using POT for their AAC should apply:

(...) I will tell you how to prevent hacks in your server:

MySQL Users
Go to C:\xampp\htdocs\pot and open the file OTS_DB_MySQL. Go to line 96~ and:
Change:

        // PDO constructor...