Last posts from the Tibianus main site that describes the fate of this server:
Rubinio
I rather believe that the classicus owner saw that tibianus was running really good for a while and realized that restarting classicus wont result in success. But as soon as its lost its players they saw an oppurtunity to retsart, and did so. You could see classicus go offline a few days after this OT died, I think that's when they started preparing the server for the restart. I even said it here, which is why I urged tibianus to restart fast.
Insurgent
Ding! Ding! Ding! Someone give Rubinio a cookie. He is totally right. Classicus waited for this moment. When they first announced the ice heroes update @Classicus they said it will be done in 2 months and 5 months after they dint release nothing. Tibianus messed up and they rushed the update knowing they will own Tibianus. Sorry but this server is dead until Classicus dies again. This is a cycle, Classicus promised an update that could not be done since they were too busy studying and spending the player's money on haging out while Tibianus was in dream land dreaming about a perfect anti bot system. I got you news pal, these servers requires time and dedication to keep them alive.
Pull Up
I do think that's its too late to do something with that server.... GOD has overslept that moment. For now, I think that classicus is prepared perfectly as it had time to do so. People no longer want weak engine with that many bugs after waiting that long. I wish all of you nice gameplay on classisus, and see you there ;-)
Source
http://tibianus.org/forum/announcements/1994?page=12