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OpenTibia Server is a replacement server for MMORPG called Tibia, developed by a German company from Regensburg, Cipsoft GmbH. OpenTibia now contains most of the features of original Tibia server, and it is in fact amazing that the developers are continuing progress. Several updates are being prepared that should greatly optimize the performance of the software when large numbers of players are connected (in hundreds), mostly by replacing the "one-thread-per-player" model. That is the so-called "revnetsys" branch in the repository.
OpenTibia uses numerous standard methods in its development and free libraries for leveraging them, such as XML for most of the static storage (monster attribute specifications, spell attributes, and it is one of the formats for storing maps), LUA as the runtime scripting language (for NPCs, for spells, and so on). It unfortunately uses Boost library as well, which is the reason I am giving it a 4 instead of 5 -- my personal opinion is that Boost is bloated. It might make things easier, but not for me. Let's just say that Boost's Regex library is (in Debian) dependant on an internationalization library which is 18MB in size.
A large community exists, which develops maps, scripts, and even server distributions composing of the above. There are many "closed" servers (meaning those who do not release neither source nor binaries) -- GPLv2 allows people to do this, which has allowed for a great community of people looking for fame (by improving OT and hosting their improvements) to arise.
Overall, OpenTibia is an exemplary MMORPG emulator. Although it does not justify its existence financially (the original game is free to play), it does justify it by providing players features not present in the original game (such as very fast player-versus-player action which some servers implement). It's also fully legal, since Tibia has not forbidden the reverse engineering or use of their client "in the real world" by their license agreement; their service rules, however, forbid this. It is probable that, thus, this rule applies only inside their game, and is punishable only there.
There are some clients in development as well, which will make OpenTibia a complete and free alternative to Tibia.
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OpenTibia Server is a replacement server for MMORPG called Tibia, developed by a German company from Regensburg, Cipsoft GmbH. OpenTibia now contains most of the features of original Tibia server, and it is in fact amazing that the developers are continuing progress. Several updates are being prepared that should greatly optimize the performance of the software when large numbers of players are connected (in hundreds), mostly by replacing the "one-thread-per-player" model. That is the so-called "revnetsys" branch in the repository.
OpenTibia uses numerous standard methods in its development and free libraries for leveraging them, such as XML for most of the static storage (monster attribute specifications, spell attributes, and it is one of the formats for storing maps), LUA as the runtime scripting language (for NPCs, for spells, and so on). It unfortunately uses Boost library as well, which is the reason I am giving it a 4 instead of 5 -- my personal opinion is that Boost is bloated. It might make things easier, but not for me. Let's just say that Boost's Regex library is (in Debian) dependant on an internationalization library which is 18MB in size.
A large community exists, which develops maps, scripts, and even server distributions composing of the above. There are many "closed" servers (meaning those who do not release neither source nor binaries) -- GPLv2 allows people to do this, which has allowed for a great community of people looking for fame (by improving OT and hosting their improvements) to arise.
Overall, OpenTibia is an exemplary MMORPG emulator. Although it does not justify its existence financially (the original game is free to play), it does justify it by providing players features not present in the original game (such as very fast player-versus-player action which some servers implement). It's also fully legal, since Tibia has not forbidden the reverse engineering or use of their client "in the real world" by their license agreement; their service rules, however, forbid this. It is probable that, thus, this rule applies only inside their game, and is punishable only there.
There are some clients in development as well, which will make OpenTibia a complete and free alternative to Tibia.
OpenTibia is one of the best projects. It is really simple to use, and connects to a simple game. Also, it is programmed by experts, and you'll find about NO issues inside it. It is beeing updated everyday, and is really good. It is the best.
