How could you make a server crash in the past?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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

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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

Comments

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