Tibia

Originally posted by Atomy
Its about the community and"the freedom, in this game you have things like legends. Famous guilds, PvP skills (which actually make a difference). Since that one guy start telling about ,that the game ain't unique. I mean Tibia goes back to '97, doesn't that make it original?. I played over atleast 80+ mmorpg's, and i done tibia over six years with breaks. In the breaks i done all those simple games like your famous "W0W". I mean, if you don't add friends to your friendlist you will probably never see them again) for example. Most people also need fancy graphics to get entertained. Besides the game doesn't have a exp lock either. The highest level at the moment is if i am right, a Lv.334 Elder druid. Anyway it comes down to this, the reason not many people play this ( I mean 60,000 player online ain't much these days for a mmorpg). Is because people blow off the game before they even really tried it. Besides the words care bears is unknown in tibia. So stop flaming the game, and don't get cocky over bad graphics. And the music? trust me you don't miss it.

Strayko you are totaly right ! tibia makes just fun if you have much friens than its just an uber game
 too all who disagree to tibia :seems like you just played to lvl 4 or something and stopped hehe play till lvl 30 or something and you will love that game

i got a lvl 60 rp and a 45 ed  my bro is lvl 99 (1 lvl to 100 ) and got friens with lvl 100-160 :3  (yes we got a real life ) its just fun to meet with friends and hunt in a group and killing strong monsters :D and we are in a war thats so cool

and yes i played another mmorpg (WoW) but i stopped playing it cause i cant find a better game than tibia

ps: Strayko what world are you playing on?

to the one who think you can be called S3ph!r0s or whatever i never seen one who talk like this play the game before you say its shi*t and not just till lvl 4

ok!? what u think about this.  A game wher u can PK 99% of the whole games lanscape, and lose pretty much when u die, and ppl just pk and pk and pk and pk with out anything happen? Exept when u got red skull u lose everything when u die. if it was this way high lvled characters would just pk the low levled characters just for fun or show how much power they got u THINK begginers will play??? ofcourse 7 days ban is Logical.. and its just not high lvled character pking low lvled.. i wouldnt feel safe anywhere in the game... Now u pk for reasons and thats why the game is fun cuz if u mess up ur screwed.. i.e. my bro was pk.. and then 5 minutes later that person was pk for the reson he pked my bro..

why does the "best" mmorpg only have about 20 threads on it then?

Originally posted by AkaJetson

why does the "best" mmorpg only have about 20 threads on it then?

That's because people, seen in these threads actually, tend to judge the book by its cover. Just like every mainstream, non-for-himself thinking player judges games.

Tibia is an amazing mmorpg there is no doubt. im not gunna say its the best as i havent played on that many but it is very good. all the people who are calling it rubbish im sure you havent actually played on it or if you have you probbaly didnt get past rookguard(the newbie island).

getting banned for killing too many people is a good idea as it reduces the effect of power abusers. if this stops you playing there are pvp enforced servers where you can kill people for experience.

all im saying is dont judge this game purely on screen shots or on the first few hours of play. i realise the graphics are bad but the game is realy incredable when you put some time into it.

I fin dthis game really good, it was my first mmorpg, and I got addicted to it, your adrenaline pumps when you go to unknown caves,  try to beat new monsters, going hunting Dragons with friends.

The skills system it's really realistic

you require knowledge of where you are hunting if you are a paladin or a mage, or you might get trapped

The sammers and such it's not a problem they even exist in real life so there is no point to hate them

You need friends to play it well

The spells system is great really great

The way you talk to NPC makes it more realistic, but sometimes it's annoying whe n people say "hi" and then go afk so no one can buy

It's just amazing how some people get nervous when a Red Skull is following them xD

Death penalty makes you play carefully, you better go with someone else, or be prepared

There are great social activities some are done by Cipsoft, adn some are even done by the players itself like the footbal tournaments

The game is really like real life you better respect the bigs or the bigs will step on you, There are some Guilds that work like Mafias which makes it even more realistic,

WAR! is one of the best things you will find in tibia seriously

houses are a great thing in tibia you can put whatever you want in them and make it look however you want and you even have to pay the rent or you will get kicked out

There are plenty of secret places in Tibia which many people havent found yet or just a little group of people

AND there is plenty of more like Season Parties, I remember once being in a party celebrating the first hydra one of my friends killed, we ended up killing ourselfes in a bloody party of fun, Fishing, getting married, baking and cooking, Santa Claus, Theatre, Casinoes, and much more

So don't play it just because it's 2d -.- the graphics are important i know, but in this game the gameplay it's what is important

Originally posted by Gameloading

Originally posted by Strayko
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[b]The skill system.[/b]
I'll tell you about the basics of Tibia now.
Tibia is a game which resembles your normal everyday MMORPG.
You can choose a class to play, kill monsters, gain experience, advance in levels and in skills.
The skills sytem is very simple, the more you fight with an axe, the more your skills in the arts of axe fighting will be. This goes for the swordfighting, clubfighting, distancefighting and fistfighting aswell.
Then there's the shielding skill, which will advance in action if your shield is equipped, and the fishing skill, which will also improve if you fish a lot.

This skill/levell system is also used in World of Warcraft, as well as in Final Fantasy XI and Everquest 2. some games, such as Ultima Online, got rid of the level system and only go for the skill system. As you can see, nothing unique here.

[b]The magic system.[/b]
Then we've got the magic system, which would be the skill system in other MMORPG's of today.
The magic system allows you to learn spells, which can be used by typing the necessary pronounciation for the spelll. Your level determines wether you are ready to learn a spell or not. If you reach the required level, you can buy the spell at the class-guildbase of your class. You can then use the spell, if your magiclevel is high enough to cast the spell. Your magic level increases when you use your manapoints, thus casting spells. Each class has a wide variety of spells, except for the knight since this class only comes with 10 spells in total.
Spells differ from spells that heal yourself slightly to spells that do devastating damage. To regain manapoints, you must eat food which will slowly recover mana or use manapotions.
Mana is a very scarce source so it is to be dealt with carefully.

Again, nothing special here. The fact you have to type the spell is fairly intresting, but it would be wise to simply macro it. Its been done before in games like UO and Runescape.

[b]The servers.[/b]
When you start the game and log into your newly created character on one of the currently 72 servers you will be stuck to that server. In total, there are 3 types of servers;
1. The PvP server; This is the most common one and allows PvP everywhere except in protection zones, this includes every town it's depot (where you can store your items) and for example houses the player has bought/is invited to.
2. The non-PvP server; There are quite some of these servers too, you might guess it already, there is no PvP allowed in any area.
3. The PvP-enforced server; You can kill everybody and even gain experience for your kills. Though your victim must be in a certain range around your level.

A little correction. the PVP servers are just normal servers. the fact that, Imo, it can't be labeled PVP server is because of the fact you can actually get BANNED from the game  for pking after a certain amount of kills.

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This is one of the devastating spells called the Ultimate Explosion. The "Hail Portal  Tibia is a message the caster put behind the pronounciation.
The pronounciation for the Ultimate Explosion is thus exevo gran mas vis.
You can see the character casting the spell reaching quite a range with this spell, however, the spell does not reach above him. This is because the protection zone honours it's name. In this case, the protection zone was a depot. I can already tell you that the amount of protection zone that's in the game lies around the 1% of the whole mapped area. This means that you're almost always vulnerable, which makes a quick solve if you have a fight.

Safe zones and AOE spells. I find it difficult to find a pvp based MMO that doesn't have them.

[b]The skull system.[/b]
Noticed the red skull above the head of the casting character?
This is what you get when you kill 3 people or more (more in this case) on one day. Normally, if you attack someone, you'll get a white skull for 1 minute, if you kill someone you will get a white skull for 15 minutes. This allows other people to kill you without getting a skull. A pretty neat system because it's very simple, but it does justify.
The red skull lasts for a month, and you won't be happy when you have one. You will lose all your equipment if you die and you can't kill anybody unjustified (without a red/white skull) because you will get banned automatically for 7 days.

The same system is active in Lineage 2 and ArchLord, nothing special here, moving on.

[b]The four classes.[/b]
There are four classes;
The knight, the paladin, the sorcerer and the druid.
Each class comes with their benefits, spell sets and fighting style.

- Knights are the ones closest to combat, they advance faster in melee skills and in the shielding skill. They can use a small selection of runes (I'll get to that later), they advance slowly in magic level and slowly in distance fighting. They gain more health points and capacity (the amount of weight you can carry) but less mana when they level up. These brave warriors are often the core of any fight since they can distract the enemy and block it so the flanks on the back can attack it.

- Paladins, surprisingly to you, are fighters who advance the best in the distance fighting skill and advance medium in magic level and melee, they do advance just as fast in the shielding skill as the knight does. They can create/use a medium selection of runes and gain a medium amount of health points, capacity and mana when they level up. Some say: Too good to be a knight but too bad to be a sorcerer/druid. Not that a knight is a wrong class to choose, on the contrary.

- Sorcerers are the ones who use wands and can use/create a large selection of runes. They advance faster in magic level and the slowest in melee and shielding skills. They gain a low amount of health points and capacity but a high amount of mana when they level up. They mostly have offensive spells. Some say this is the strongest class available.

- Druids are the altered twins of the sorcerers. They use rods instead of wands and can also use/create a large selection of runes. They advance faster in magic level but slightly faster in the shielding and melee skills than the sorcerer does. They also gain a low amount of health points and capacity but a high amount of mana when they level up. They mostly have healing spells. Don't underestimate the druid.

cookie cutter classes, no comment is needed and it would also be unfair because this is simply what works best

[b]Spells.[/b]
There are two types of spells; Rune spells and instant spells, and they all have the same amount of cooldown time (exhaustion), you cannot spamm spells.
Instant spells are triggered instantly while rune spells are spells that are enclosed in... runes. Runes can be used for hunting and PvP, they are a very good source of power and healing.
Knights for example only have a light healing spell, this often doesn't heal more than 1% of the knight's health. Though there is the rune spell of the druid called ultimate healing (not to be mistaken with the instant ultimate healing spell which is cast on yourself when you use it) which they can enclose in a rune and which can be used when you reach magic level 4. This is not a very hard task to complete for a knight, and thus he relies on the ultimate healing rune created by the druid, these runes often heal 40-70% of the knight's health. Runes are a good way to make money and that's why you will see a lot of sorcerers and druids making runes all day long in front of their houses.

Same system is avaible in Ragnarok Online and ArchLord, only diffrence is that they are gathered through quests and drops instead of player created. the fact Sorcerers and druids are making runes all day long in front of their houses gives away the H U G E amount of excitement and fun you will get from this game...

[b]The guild syste