This for sure is not an easy topic to discuss and I'd love to chat about it one day (outside otland preferably since they love to give me points for anything I say outside their beliefs).
My opinion on the matter is heavily biased towards what I've written in the past:
Botting:
This game gameplay by default is dull. It is so simple anyone can make a macro/bot and automate it. I believe that if you try hard enough you could make an ape play the game but that could be considered animal abuse seeing how boring it is lol. I guess that to prevent players botting you'll...
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Is this from rl? whatever it is, it would be funny to see on rl today, with cheaters being up to and over lvl 1000, it could take years to die on the fields. I think it was some poh/jakundaf/hellgate spot you had to use destroy field rune + pick to escape edit: my bad, it wasn't.
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Hello, its been a while since ive been in this thread but i'd like to say something(that very likely goes against what i might have said in this thread in the past). Botting is like the drug war, especially in the US(a few years back before legalizing weed in some states). Instead of fighting...
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Otlist/Spoof:
Dear all, I've seen several servers using spoof systems throughout those years and it made the otservlist react to it making it better and better within time. We still have lots of tutorials out there, specially for older versions, that can be easily converted to newer TFS. Despite being very...
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I added not counting afk players to gunz's version. So with this you can have no logout zones or above 15 min kick time and still be within otservlist rules. This also has gunz's not counting more than 4 mcs per IP. protocolstatus.cpp (TFS 1.0/1.1/1.2) (1.3 Version available below) Change...
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Not sure if this topic is even allowed here but I am working on a new otservlist website. Essentially I want to make it so people can create there own page for the server on the website. You can check it out here: otservers.ddns.net Its not close to ready but I wanted to see opinions. Server...
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Community/OTs available:
I've been inactive from the OpenTibia community for awhile now. I always come back and take a look at Otservlist and Tibia.com to see the numbers and I see now that it is at a all time low. Do you guys think Tibia will permanently die? Any suggestions to bring it back? Im curious. Thanks :)
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In general, bots/runemakers are too "rewarding" for a server because of how lists ranks servers. It's all tied in the end.
People don't realize this community is quite small and even small decisions have a huge impact in how it evolves
(e.g: Staff decision to don't remove the subforum
Suggestion - Remove otservlist subforum (https://otland.net/threads/remove-otservlist-subforum.276321) )
The fact otservlist works how it works is what makes so punishing to invest in long-term projects or even custom content compared to any global that all investments are made into faking data. Xinn and other naives can believe what they want about otservlist being spoof-safe, I've helped at least 2-3 folks setup very high level spoofs with socket proxies and everything and I'm pretty sure one of them has sold this solutions to some servers top5 there. Do Xinn care enough? Not while it's borderline undetectable so it's not obvious for everyone (including himself).