Gamemaster

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Gamemasters are players who have been entrusted by CipSoft with a supervisory role. It's their duty to investigate and to punish rule violations in Tibia. To do so they have a number of special abilities, like the right to check players' criminal records, the ability to broadcast red messages, the ability to teleport to any player online , among others and to certain key locations.

Also, gamemasters can impose penalties on players which include notations, banishments and even account deletions (if the account has received a final warning already). In addition to regular gamemasters there is also so-called Customer Support (the old "Senior Gamemasters").

You will recognise gamemasters by the abbreviation "GM" at the beginning of their name. Also, gamemasters wear a special blue outfit which is not available to regular players. Gamemasters can send messages in red text and also broadcast them to the entire server to make sure people will pay attention to what they are saying. Finally, please note that since gamemasters are not standard in-game player characters they are permanently level 2.

Possible candidates to gamemaster job are chosen by CipSoft only. However, if you would like to help the community, you can apply to be a tutor.

Retired gamemasters are usually bestowed the rank of a senator.

[edit] History

Back in the old days, gamemasters were called wizards, their special characters (the one who is now known with a GM prefix) were not invincible, meaning that when they had to evaluate a case of a troublemaker, they were risking their very own lives during that "quest".

With the new account system, CipSoft was able to bestow a whole account the status of a gamemaster instead of doing it manually to a specific character.

After the implementation of new gameworlds and the premium account system, CipSoft decided to bestow their wizards the gift of invincibility and their name was changed from Wizards to Gamemasters.

They were unable to impose banishments in premium account players for periods longer than a week, having to forward troublesome players to CipSoft, so they could decide the fate of the troublemakers.

The more experienced gamemasters were promoted to the rank of Senior Gamemaster. They had a more wide variety of powers and the Criminal Record that were imposed by them were not possible to complain for its withdrawl. When the Customer Support Team was enlarged, its members became Senior Gamemasters. After a while, the Senior Gamemasters who were gamemasters became regular gamemasters again. From then on, all Senior Gamemasters were members of the CipSoft Team.

[edit] Related links

• Isle of Solitude (a.k.a. GM Island)
• Old GM outfit from a time when they were refered to as Game Wizards
• The Gamemaster's list
• A list of old and current gamemasters
• Gamemaster Forum
• Tutor
• Senior Tutor
• Customer Support
• Community Manager
• Senator
• Counsellor
• Senior Gamemaster