forgottenserver

playing on private servers with real clients and nowadays as I see custom private servers use custom clients that are impressive as hell imo. I've had a lot of fun debugging those C++/Lua game mechanics when trying to create my own server but since its time consuming to create nice game play then I gave up ______________ This is the game where you could be DDoSd if you joined somebody's team speak/ventrilo/etc This game fought and probably still fights bots. They improved shitton by using BattleEye. They fought against DDoSes against their servers hard too, I remember when they used iirc Prolexic and it didn't work well Fun thing: IIRC Tibia's game company rewrote their C++ client in something that worked in web browser, but afaik they eventually killed it. I do wonder whether they'll try again with WebAseembly >The Tibia Flash client will also be discontinued tomorrow. https://www.tibia.com/news/?subtopic=newsarchive&id=4358 I heard that in early days of Tibia you could buy premium account via letter to Cipsoft's "HQ"

decade ago without "protections" could waste your like 2-3 hours of exp and some items, add to that fact that you can be killed on PvP servers by anyone "just because" :P This game is also interested from programming perspective - Private servers are an initiative by programmers to recreate this game engine and host their own server. Nowadays it's mature. One of the most popular private server engines: https://github.com/otland/forgottenserver It's really impressive project. When it comes to botting FULL afk scripts You have to write code which goes to the exp place, don't get stuck somewhere, exp there for a hours (using spells, drink health/mana potions, take loot from corpses, run on the more or less complex spawns (map), go back to the city if you don't have potions, sells loot, take cash to the bank, and repeat Many things can go wrong during that cicle - like other played blocked your "road" to the exp for 1min, or you character just died due to PK(players), lag and maaaaaaaany other. Your script has to consider a lot of those different conditions and trade offs (sometimes you don't want to kill monsters that are between your city and your spawn because it would take 10min, so you just want to run through them, but you can get "trapped" (sorrounded) by them, so you have to consider this) It's not easy to do this good enough that you can start bot on VPS and it will running for a day, week or something similar.