“Conversation – the key to knowledge” was a great written piece, I’d like first to congratulate the team of tibiasecrets, really nice job.

I started sending messages to Mogh and Bosst, but I agree with them that the discussions should take place here in the forums.

Recently, I started working in some mysteries of Tibia again, and now I’m looking to aggregate as much knowledge as possible for the discoveries that are lurking before our eyes.

I’m posting here some keywords and ideas for keywords that can be used in the game to try and find some juicy secrets.

Salutations :

hello
hello “Name of NPC”
greet
greetings (yes, there are 2 options)
hail
good day
djanni’hah
hiho
hiho “Name of NPC”
be mourned pilgrim flesh
Ashari
charach (orc)
hail general
salutations general
piedpiper

Why it’s important? some keywords might be hidden in plain sight, example for Frodo in Thais:

Player: Hi
Frodo: Welcome to Frodo’s Hut. You heard about the news?

Player: Hello Frodo
Frodo: Hello, hello, Player and welcome. You heard about the news?

So with one new salutation, you discovered another keyword to interact on the sight: “welcome”

I propose to talk some chit chat with the NPCs too, as some respond to the “how are you” specifically, so:

Chit Chatting NPCS (My proposals)

I am “Player Name”
How is the weather
How are you
What is up
What’s up
Do you sell “something”
Do you have “something”
What do you do
What do you “something”

The Goodbyes maybe can alter the line and prove more insight

thanks
thank you
bye
farewell
see you
asha thrazi
futchi

Future Propositions
Gathering keywords is hard, testing them are tedious, If someone have a method to test the results I’d be glad.

For now, I’m looking in:

1. Index the words and interaction phrases of the leaked NPC files
2. Index the words of the tibia.fandom database, maybe use some wordclouds as a visual aid on importance
3. Index the words on the tibia.com website, including genesis, lore posts, monsters words, city/location maps descriptions, and everything else (in this order of priority in my opinion)
4. Index words on thewaybackmachine old websites
5. Index words from old fansites and “gods” (nightmareknights, deuderonomy chronicles, etc)
6. Index words from DnD books
7. Index words from MUD games
8. Maybe some other stuff…

For the wiki and the tibia site, I think my approach will be with two fronts, first is the pure and simple word, nothing more… Besides the 255 char limit dictates that for a little convenience, it might be ok to use more than one keyword at the same time… if a  response is found, all the other keywords are tried again.

But I think some are key phrases(composite names of creatures or NPCs for examples) and they need to use the entire name and not only one word, and that is the catch. When you a human see the text, and knowing how Tibia works, might have an insight that the words “eternal bond” (from genesis) might be a good key phrase, “independent they” doesn’t fit together and “undertakings thoughtfully” doesn’t ring as a key phrase.

And as we have words exclusive to Tibia, the entire dictionary might be counterproductive, that is why I’m thinking of the indexing of keywords and phrases.

And that is not the only problem, after testing the words, you have to see about some variables:

Current status: Normal, poisoned, burning, poisoned and burning, etc.

Current open quests: Here we could control only the quests that the NPC actually gives, or from the city, or from it’s race.

Date/Patch that the keywords where tested: This is important to track when the interaction occurred and if there is an new line with the NPC.

For me, I’ll probably design and work on a database for the tracking and indexing of the words, but if someone is more advanced in this work and care to share something, I’d be glad to contribute.