Announcements

Hello folks.

When I went trough the forum, I have seen some nasty avatars around here, these are mostly sexuality (*where sex organs are fully being shown*) and gruesome tinted avatars. These images aren't appropriate to be on a public forum like OTLand where everyone can have access to.
The same applies to images posted in a thread.

If you would see any sort of those avatars I mentioned then you should report them right away with the report function and we will take care of it...

 

The staff recruitment board has finally been closed for this time. Unfortunately I have not had enough free time to leave comments in all the threads, but I didn't really base my decisions on what was written in the threads but more on contributions from the user, their activity in the section they applied for and their reputation (no, not reputation points) on the forum.

The new moderators are:

• Archez
  • Community category, Downloads section
• Feloth
  • Downloads...

 

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...

 

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...

 

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...​

 

Welcome, in celebrating for our second anniversary I hereby gladly present public map voting for Group A! Which also means that this is the latest group and the end for the Otland mapping anniversary!

We the Otland staff members hope and wish to see you joining on the next year with maybe new events!

Now the rules for voting:
(read this carefully)

Don't advertise or a campaign to make people to vote...​

 

Welcome, in celebrating for our second anniversary I hereby gladly present the public map voting for Group B!

As I told in the thread for registering there will be 4 groups, each group has formed 5 contestants who fit almost in the same category of mapping. They had 7 days to complete their entry with a free choice what they want to create.

Now the rules for voting:
(read this carefully)

Don't advertise or a...​

 

Welcome, in celebrating for our second anniversary I hereby gladly present the public map voting for Group C!

As I told in the thread for registering there will be 4 groups, each group has formed 5 contestants who fit almost in the same category of mapping. They had 7 days to complete their entry with a free choice what they want to create.

Now the rules for voting:
(read this carefully)

Don't advertise or a...​

 

Welcome, in celebrating for our second anniversary I hereby gladly present the public map voting for Group D!

As I told in the thread for registering there will be 4 groups, each group has formed 5 contestants who fit almost in the same category of mapping. They had 7 days to complete their entry with a free choice what they want to create.

Now the rules for voting:
(read this carefully)

Don't advertise or a campaign to make...​

 

Last year at 28th May, OtLand's birthday, we had approximately 10,000 registered users and at that time, we didn't expect to have more than 20,000 members by now. But as you can see on our user count, we have managed to reach over 40,000 users! This pretty much proves that OtLand has grown faster this year than in the first year, and it's still growing :thumbup:!

We'd like to thank everyone for still being around and supporting us. Especially the Donators, we've received a lot of...

 

Hello, our second anniversary is approaching fast and we want to celebrate it with a new map competition. You just need to make one map piece, the theme is up to you! Send it to me when you're done.​

Winner gets 3 month donator subscription!​

You got 7 days to complete your entry (29th may) after that a voting thread will be created. If you do not succeed to send me a picture in time, you will disqualified!​

If...​

 

In the past days, I've cought members posting infected files, it wasn't any common trojan/virus. They did not get infracted/banned, but please scan your files before posting the download links to avoid infractions/banishment.

Kind regards,
Otland Staff.

 

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...

 

Otland staff wish you all happy Easter and we hope you enjoy your free day(s)!
If you haven't noticed yet, the logo of Otland has changed to a Easter theme. ^_^

//Otland Staff




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Happy first April .

 

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...

 

It has been a while since I last posted an announcement, that is because I've been busy with many other things. It's time to focus on keeping OtLand up to date again.

Today we updated all our outdated plugins such as vBSEO, and we also purchased the vBulletin Blog plugin. You can use it as a personal blog, or group blog together with other members if you're developing a project and want to post teasers etc. Blogs can be found here: http://otland.net/blogs/. It will be possible to...

 

Greetings!

It's almost spring and that means...

Between 22-24 February it will be the days of carnival, the logo of Otland has been adapted to carnival theme and wanted to tell you that the second anniversary in may of Otland is coming soon and we're about to adding some new modifications aswell (including some kind of 'Modbot') that you might expect soon enough!

And if you celebrate carnival,
we hope you will enjoy your days! ...​

 

Happy new year!

We wish you a safe 2009 in advance

Thank you everybody for supporting Otland as it's known as today. we surely hope to see you again on the next year! :thumbup:

Kind regards,
OtLand Staff.
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I've recently seen alot of users getting hacked, so I've used some of my free time to look into this and I found a "security vulnerability" in phpMyAdmin which comes with XAMPP. The control user pma comes with an empty password as default, and XAMPP does not alert the user about this.

I'm not going to explain in details how you can take advantage of this vulnerability, but to explain it in a single sentence: the user pma has more permissions than it should have.

NOTE: The...