Tibia has announced that their next update will allow players to report botters and statements. You can read the announcement here. CIP has titled it Further Reporting Options as it adds onto the ability for players to report names and rule violations.
As can be expected there is quite a bit of discussion going on about it and there are several replies by the Community Managers (CM).
Report Botters
This will be interesting to see how it works and if more action is taken against botters. CIP has said it’s automatic tool catches all botters but as we all know, it doesn’t. Everyone can tell stories of some friend or real life (rl) who has never been caught over the last year plus since CIP started doing it. CIP at least increased it’s bans to about 5k every 2 weeks rather then 5k every month but they still exist.
CIP states reporting a botter will allow them to continue to develop the automatic botting detector program they have. We’ll see how it works out. CIP stated that players reporting a botter will not result in a ban so even if a 100 reports are made the player won’t be excluded
The botter must be online to report him so you can’t stand at the depot and make botting reports.
Report Statements
Tibia and CIP announced that all players will be able to report statements in public channels. Ogrey on the discussion channel states that most players will have the options to report botter and statements about 40 times a month.
This does not mean you can report private messages (PM/PVT) and the channels you can report are:
- Game Chat
- Trade (including Trade Rookgaard)
- RL
- Help
Those are the same channels that Senior Tutors were able to report so nothing has changed there.
CIP announced that further changes are in the works and that minor rules broken will be treated leniently. It will be interesting to see how this develops Tibia wide.
Many players are asking that default channel and PM’s be added but CIP has resisted this since Senior Tutors have had the ability to report statements. We asked repeatedly for this option but never got it. Let’s see what the future brings.
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