利用者:Zinpwier
Sharing accounts, selling accounts, using any and all non-official programs such as "bots," and taking advantage of game flaws, such as "teleporting," is considered as a game weakness and may result in harsh bans and instant account deletions for a second offense within six months. If an account has been banished or scheduled for deletion CipSoft propagates that the only recourse is to either create a new character, or appeal to Customer Support directly.
The most frequent form of cheating is in the form of using "cave bots," software which hunt on behalf of players without any input. Complaints on this issue from the player community have been growing during the past years and this is one of the major drawback of the game. So far CipSoft has not been able to effectively counter this problem and it is suspected to be one of the main reasons for the decline of the game. Another common form of cheating is called account sharing. In this case, two or more people share the same account and take turns hunting. This allows the character to gain experience and skill at a much higher rate. In an attempt to lessen account sharing, a "stamina" system was implemented so that if a character is hunting for an excess number of hours, that character would no longer gain any experience for killing creatures.
CipSoft, the creator of the game, has performed various polls on the official website, suggesting future implementations to lessen cheating. Screenshots and/or videos, called "TibiaCams," once were used as incentive to investigate cases of severe or otherwise game-altering cheating, though this practice has been unofficially stopped. The reason for this is that the screenshots or videos can be manipulated to show false information.
On 30 January 2009, Cipsoft announced that they banned 4,959 characters for using illegal software while playing. A quote from Cipsoft at the Tibia website states, "These accounts have been identified by an automatic tool with complete accuracy, therefore any complaints about these punishments are in vain. They are final and complaints will be ignored. We will neither reveal our criteria for these punishments, nor will we hand out any proofs." The article goes on to say that Cipsoft is not finished and will continue to work hard to eliminate cheating from the game. Since then, Cipsoft has used this automatic tool about once a month to delete tens of thousands of accounts.
On 22 September 2010, Cipsoft made fundamental changes to the player versus player fighting mechanism, in an effort to mitigate abuse. An official statement by Cipsoft's product manager in answer to the modification to gameplay: "How can we keep ruling the server now, we can't even enforce our own rules!, How am I supposed to hunt someone off the server now? Well, the answer to this is actually pretty simple: Not at all! This is a game, and everyone who wants to play it has the same right to be able to play it. That means that you are not meant to be able to set your own rules for everyone else on the server and you are neither meant to be able to decide about whether someone else is allowed to play this game. That was the whole idea of working on these issues."
Tibia's "private servers" (also known as OpenTibia servers) have drastically increased in use since CipSoft started to make these mass bans against accounts using illegal software whilst playing. Since then, the amount of players online has fallen from around 60,000 players to around 30,000 in a period of 3 fiscal quarters.