What were the most severe punishments done by Cipsoft?

Question

In this year's updates we received extra perks and services to minimalize illegal activities by the players (training rods or selling characters). This reminded me video of characters banished online or some news like this. I was wondering what where the biggest punishments recorded so far?

Comments

I recall a story of cipsoft banning people because they were power abuser. I make this a comment not an answer because its an old school story which I have no evidence for

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Entire guilds have already been banned for this. It was at Craban's time, good times.

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I don't think this question is a duplicate. The reason being is what specifically talks about guilds the other talks about Tibia as a whole.

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I agree, guild punishment is different from individual punishment (or punishment in general, as is the case here).

Imagine ... A player was coerced into joining (and paying for) a guild if he wanted to play in a particular world. If that weren't enough, the low clergy (as I like to call them), would still have to pay an even higher price: be held responsible for the hand that hits them and receive the same sentence: Deleted for power abuse.

I think this is the worst punishment of all. When you're innocent.

Answer 1

The worst punishment CipSoft handles is the deletion of a player's account. This has happened multiple times over the years, but CipSoft never announces or discusses specific cases publicly because it would violate their Terms of Service. Most accounts that have been deleted were for botting, automatically detected. Accounts can also be deleted due to bug abusing, severe/repeated rule breaking or other violations of the User Agreement. 

From the official manual:

Account deletions are the most serious punishment in Tibia. They are only handed out if a player has violated the Tibia Rules repeatedly and/or in a very serious manner. Please note that unlike other entries in the rule violation record, entries that result in account deletions do not have to be acknowledged by the account user in order to proceed. However, as with any other rule violation record entry, players whose accounts are about to be deleted are granted a 60 days complaint period.

Answer 2

Missing characters.. to be reworked :-( -

8th March  2004- Banishments  - " A  large number of players "

01 February 2005  Dissmisal of Gamemaster  the gamemaster Dokein

02 March 2005- Punishments Due to Account Sharing

 30 August 2006 -   Account deletions   - 140 accounts 

 05 Mar 2008- Excessive chargeback  - 60 accounts

09 July 2008- Punishments - punished more than 600 accounts 

01 Aug 2008- Deletion - 200 accounts 

02 Sep 2008- Punishment - punished more than 650 accounts 

20 October 2008- Deletion  - 70 accounts 

30 Jan 2009 - Punishment - 4959 Tibia accounts 

 25 Feb 2009- Deletion -  146 accounts have been deleted 

 03 Mar 2009 - Punishment - punished 5163 

02 Apr 2009- Punishment  - 5103 Tibia accounts punished

06 Jul 2011- Deletion  - 3313 Tibia deleted 

21 Jul 2011-  Deletion - 1575 Tibia accounts

18 Aug 2011 - Deletion - 2760 Tibia accounts

29 Sep 2011- Deletion - 3058 accounts

03 Nov 2011- Deletion - 2011 accounts 

08 Dec 2011- Deletion - 2189 accounts 

22 Dec 2011- Deletion- 746 Tibia accounts 

23 Dec 2011 - Deletion - 55 Tibia accounts 

19 Jan 2012- Deletion- 1497 Tibia accounts 

12 Apr 2012- Deletion  - 5445 Tibia accounts 

05 Jun 2012- Deletion - 4848 Tibia accounts