In proportion, the amount of cheaters on PvP and Non-PvP on german worlds is about equal. If there were as many Non-PvP servers as there would be PvP servers, 46.3% of the cheaters would play Non-PvP and 53.7% would play PvP. 17% of the banished cheaters play on a Non-PvP world, and 83% play either PvP or PvP-Enforced. 37.6% of the Non-PvP cheaters play German worlds, thus 62.4% play an American world. The study concluded that 34.6% of cheaters play German worlds. This has occasionally been called a bad feature as it can prohibit the amount of healing that can be used in quick succession which may cause a player to die.Īccording to research by the player Hall of Shame cheating occurs in majority on US servers. Similarly the limitation of the amount of magic that can be cast in a given period of time was introduced to stop players using cheat tools that could cast spells or using runes much faster than a player not using a cheat tool could respond to them.
When initially introduced at the Christmas update 2006 this feature was not welcomed fondly, however seems to have attracted more support as more people accept that it won't be removed and learn the reasons why it was included. Such measures include the sounds made when consuming food or liquids, which are in place to allow Gamemasters to observe people macro eating/drinking. Other anti-cheating measures introduced to Tibia have had no or negative impact from a functionality point of view. This update however hasn't stopped people macro fishing or macro rune making, amongst other things. Again, this appears to be an indication of Cipsoft's unwillingness to police such matters and instead make their own legal version of it. It also believed that the widespread use of macros lead to the introduction of 'object hotkeys' (such as the much famed UH Hotkey). This appears to be because proving someone is using a light cheat is near impossible and Cipsoft have then adopted the idea that it is better to remove the illegality of this cheat by effectively providing their own version of it (this is similar to a common argument in favor of the decriminalization of drugs). It is widely accepted that the wide spread use of 'light cheats' (brightening the entire screen so as to remove the need to use torches, candles, casting light spells or any other method of produce light) caused the introduction of the Ambient Light feature of the client. Some of the more prominent examples are listed below. Various common cheats have caused Cipsoft to revise Tibia to eliminate some cheating.
There is also a high risk of being hacked from the use of cheat tools. A cheat tool is any program that gives a player an unfair advantage when playing the game.Īll cheat tools are explicitly against the Tibia Rules and are grounds for immediate banishment and possible account deletion.