A relic in the 2D MMORPG world

Tibia is a MMORPG released in 1997 by a team of Germans that later came to be called Cipsoft a game that from the beginning to half of development did not have the best graphics for that time and that its gameplay without any sound effect made it a laughing stock for those who had no involvement with the game, among many versions released so far the ones that are considered golden times by players are versions 7. 4, 7.6 and 8.0, the other versions included updates that drastically changed the direction of the game for the most modern times in terms of gameplay, skills, graphics and additional mechanics.

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Tibia went far beyond a simple online RPG where you needed to kill any creature to increase its level and so on, every element of the game, the cities, the monsters and NPCs had a relationship with the world in the game and nothing was there by chance, the dialogue with the merchants was much more than a simple buy and sell, you could interact as if you were another player talking with messages in the textbox, dominant guilds promoted the content within the game with wars, quest services and organization against those players who did not respect the players rule, yes different from the general rules of the game the players had their own rules even when a cave was being used to get money and experiences you simply could not go out stealing, you had to wait your turn not to suffer the consequences of death, and in Tibia my friend, death is not pleasant at all.

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Tibia death penalty

Until the above mentioned gold times versions the penalty for death in Tibia was very different from the others, before 7.0 if the player was killed by creatures or other players he had his character deleted from the game as if he had really been killed in life, with time a community of new players begged for this system to be improved since it was not worth dedicating hours and hours to the game and in the end possibly die by carelessness. So in the next version the penalty for death was changed from permanent to losing your inventory bag with the chance of losing some equipped items and a good percentage of experience.

But killing another player was almost a shot in the foot since after killing them you received a marker (sort of skull icon in varying colors depending on the amount of kills during the period) that all other players could see and kill you without being penalized as a murderer, it was almost a free pass to kill someone and steal what they stole.

My time in the game

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I always liked to play Paladin in any server, Paladin different from the classic paladin that has some involvement with the faith or a protective warrior class was a class focused on physical attacks at distance, an archer who could use spears, bow and arrow, crossbows, shurikens and even small stones to attack your opponent, I started in 7.4 versions and still prefer this on alternative servers that share the same feeling that this version was the best of all removing the issue graphics is a fact.
We did not have any skill points to distribute, instead we had to improve our character through training, if I wanted to improve my ranged attack I should be attacking for a few hours with any ranged weapon, the same for shield, magic, sword, axe, club, fishing and even hand to hand combat which was the worst of all due to the low damage done even at great levels of training.

I have fought in numerous wars in Amera, and the wars in those days were only for experienced players since the skills in Tibia were triggered by typing words, an example was if I was with a mage and wanted to use his ultimate skill that invokes a big explosion in area I needed to send the phrase exevo gran mas vis and then the excitement started, it was a danger because this skill did not differentiate friend from foe and you could unintentionally end up eliminating your own team or killing someone unintentionally and resulting in many punishments.

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Today I am retired from the game, but sometimes I get in the Discord with my friends and we select a server to play, today the game is very advanced and changed a lot the gameplay and the graphics have improved 100% in all aspects, recently I saw on some news site related to the game that they intended to add sound effects in the game, who knows I do not get excited and start a new marathon from scratch with the Hive community in the world of Tibia? Maybe.

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