Here are a couple of images from the upcoming winter update of 2013. Enjoy!

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"Ruined House"



"Starting Area"



"The Giant Traverse"



"Ruined City"



"The Wall"



Conceptual Art



"Surreal Ruins"

Out of a 100+ submissions we have finally picked 3 winners with the help of our site admins and the tibia CMs.

The 3 winners of the fansite item competition are as following...

#1. Jade Amulet
Created by: Ark11
A beautiful piece of pixel art that conveys a sort of mystical presence. Embellished with carefully placed outlines of golden streaks makes this item pleasant to look at and a must-have in any household!





#2. Almanac of Fame
Created by: Combi





#3. Ascension Sword
Created by: LupusAurelius





We will contact the winners of the competition soon, so be sure that your registered e-mail on your TibiaHof account is correct. A list of the prizes you will receive can be viewed here. The winners will also each receive a TibiaHof badge.

Thanks to all who participated in the fansite item competition! Picking just three out of over 100 submissions was a very difficult task, but we are happy with how unique the items were and how imaginative the Tibian community can be.

Stay tuned for more competitions to come!

What are Badges?

A badge is a proof that you as a Tibian player and TibiaHof user has achieved greatness - whether it be winning in one of our contests, achieving status on the site, being in the highscores, etc.

What do they look like?

The badge is a 32x32px image icon. Each badge image is unique and is displayed on several places on the site; such as on your personal profile, forum posts, community pages, and more.

Badges looks like this:



Only five badges can be displayed at each time. For example, up to 5 badges will be displayed on your user profile.

How do I mine a badge???

By the end of every month we create badges that we distribute to users, as well as announce it in a news article. We only generate a limited amount of badges at a monthly rate, usually 5-10 badges.

You are most likely to gain badges the more active you are in the community.

What kind of Badges are there?

There are basically five types of badges:

• Super Rare - only one badge of this kind exists
• Rare - 2 to 9 badges exist of this kind.
• Semi-Common - 10 to 29 badges exist of this kind
• Common - 30 to 49 badges exist of this kind
• Very Common - 50+ badges exist of this kind

Future?

The three winners of the fansite item competition will win one badge each:


Each such badge is Super Rare, i.e. they are unique and thus there is only 1 of its kind.

Check out a list of all badges here.

You can always find a list of all badges if you go to Community > Badges.

In alphabetical order, here are the six items that have been nominated to win the fansite item competition. Out of these six, 3 will emerge as winners.

And the nominees are...

Almanac of Fame, created by Combi



Ancient Book, created by SonOfSama



Ascension Sword, created by LupusAurelius



Black Knight Helmet, created by Atelier



Jade Amulet, created by Ark11



Miniature HoF, created by Bettiin



The 3 winners - gold, silver, and bronze - will be announced some time within this month.

Until then, good luck

The fansite item competition is coming to an end - on Oct 31st we will close the forum thread where you can submit your items. Once this thread has been closed, we will not accept any further item submissions.

You can still submit your items on this thread.

And after that?

Once we have closed the item thread, we will go through the submissions and pick out the ones that follows the rules. Out of these we will pick 5 to 10 nominated items. These will be announced later.

Once we have the nominated items, we will pick 3 winners - one gold, one silver, one bronze.

The items we have received looks really great and unique, picking just 3 will be hard! Until then, have a good Halloween

User profiles have been revamped to integrate better with the newly added forum.

Here's an example of how the new profiles looks like.

Minor fixes

• Fixed all checkboxes and radio buttons, so now you can click on the text next to each checkbox/radio button to select it
• Fixed a bug with image search
• Fixed a bug with not being able to tag players when editing images
• Fixed yet another bug on forum that made it impossible to view character information on players with apostrophes in the name
• Fixed a few details with the layout

Badges?

As you can see on the profiles, we're soon introducing a new feature called "badges". Basically, it's similar to achievement points - you can collect these badges by doing something great. More about this in a couple of weeks, so be sure to check back




Various scripts have been modified. If the website doesn't seem to work correctly, try to update it by pressing Ctrl+R or clearing your browser cache.

If you are having any trouble with the new features, please let us know by sending an email to admin@tibiahof.com or visiting the feedback form.

That's all for now, take care until next time!

TibiaHoF will be hosting its first competition from the 1st of October through the 31st 2013 at 11:59 PM CEST.

The competition for the official TibiaHoF fansite item contest has begun and you can head over to our forum to participate and chat with fellow tibians!

Rules and Questions forum thread

Submissions Thread

Prizes:

1st - The Fansite Item, Royal Medal , 30 days of premium time

2nd - Tome of choiceOR Nightmare Doll , Heavy Medal, 30 days of premium time

3rd - Prize left from 2nd place, Hero's Medal , 30 days of premium time

The start page now loads about 5 to 6 times faster than before, due to improved caches. The loading time has been reduced from around 30 seconds to around 5 seconds on the start page.

We are looking into improving the performance on the website in other areas as well.

This week we are introducing a new feature: Activity Timeline.

What is the Activity Timeline?

The timeline shows the life of a Tibia player: how many levels they've gained, achievements points gained, when they changed guilds, change of world, and much more. You'll get a nice overview of the player from beginning to end.

How do I use it?

It's simple! Just follow these instructions:

Step 1: Go into Activities

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Step 2: Pick "Search By Name" from the search filters


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Just enter the name of the player and press Filter. You will be presented with some information, something like this:


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Various scripts have been modified. If the website doesn't seem to work correctly, try to update it by pressing Ctrl+R or clearing your browser cache.

If you are having any trouble with the new features, please let us know by sending an email to admin@tibiahof.com or visiting the feedback form.

That's all for now, take care until next time!

We have published a couple of new screenshots from the test server. Check out the album on our Facebook:

Check out the album here