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Hello, I remember 3 years ago there was a war on Antica. They made day by day, 3x crash server to get levels back because they died. How did they do that? How was it possible to crash server?

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Servers can crash due to bugs or technical errors it seems. I will tell you a couple of examples, especially the one your referring to. On April 14, 15, 26 in 2017 Antica got reset a total of 3x for the month of April! According to the official forums there's a reply on April 18th 2017 stating every time a player got into a battle the server would crash apparently. People claim it's due to the attacking and the server not handling the war.  Here's the official reply:

> I want to point out that every time that there is a battle in Antica the server crashes.
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> Are we going to have a reset every time that there is a battle?

Thanks for bringing it up. We adjusted the configuration of Antica to prevent further crashes from happening. Rest assured, we are already looking into this issue.

Source: https://www.tibia.com/forum/?action=thread&postid=37876710#post37876710

I also found some threads on Antica forums talking about the server crashes, there's more but these are the most popular it seems:

  1. https://www.tibia.com/forum/?action=thread&threadid=4543040
  2. https://www.tibia.com/forum/?action=thread&threadid=4542883
  3. https://www.tibia.com/forum/?action=thread&threadid=4543146

Here's the news on Tibia during this time which didn't reference anything regarding the server crashing bug:

Source April 14 2017- https://www.tibia.com/news/?subtopic=newsarchive&id=4034

We had to reset the game world Antica to the state of April 13, 10:00 CEST, due to a technical problem. We would like to offer our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this has caused.

Source April 15 2017- https://www.tibia.com/news/?subtopic=newsarchive&id=4035

We had to reset the game world Antica to the state of April 14, 10:00 CEST, due to a technical problem. We would like to offer our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this has caused.

Source April 26 2017- https://www.tibia.com/news/?subtopic=newsarchive&id=4063

Unfortunately, we had to reset Antica to the state of April 25, 20:20 CEST due to technical difficulties. As compensation there will be a double XP/skill weekend on this game world between the server saves of April 28 and May 01.

Source: https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/Server_Reset


There's other times that servers got a reset due to crashing too, it doesn't happen in just Antica or in one particular world. Here's another example of how a server got crashed: 

Another example which I remember (it took place on Guardia about 3-4 years ago) was throwing a huge amount of items into the depot and setting up the bot that would get in and out of the depot SQM. It caused crashes of the whole server.

Source: https://www.tibiaqa.com/14261/what-are-some-major-bugs-that-tibia-experienced

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This exactly this time, I think there was also a movie where they even said "We crashed! Again!". People were sooooo mad because of that :D
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Wow...I actually didn't know about the crash until I started to do the research. Pretty interesting the things that happen in other worlds, as I'm in Pacera XD
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Yes, i remember when people were so mad cause of that. We had server reset day after the day so people just stopped exp  till war was over XD
Antica it's a state of mind XD
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