The first time i came in contact whit botting in Tibia was when i was around... eight or nine years old, back in 2002. The first time i used a bot myself in Tibia was when i bought a month of xenobot when i made this account, did not play tibia often befor.
Tho botting has/do happend often, i can say for certain 80% of the high level player base has used a bot, its nothing new that bots are used in a game were it takes ages to level up after lvl 150 - 200, + hand grinding efficient close to a script will never happend, the bad side of botting was/is when a spawn is so crowded that u cant even touch a monster befor its dead, tho whit stamina cipsoft did make it more easy for those few hand grinders to play the game, tho what i hate most are kids sitting on tibia yelling *BOT BOT BOT GTFO F**** REPORT* etc, still when u sit at the computer watching the bot... even replaying... not our mistake that the kids are to poor/dumb to get a working bot themself, not like its hard.
The only irritating side whit botting in tibia is that when u use a script at a certain level and some lower levels / real low decides to use the same spot.... and when they start to report you to get you banned... i mean realy, not like its only me that breaks the rules ^^ we all do, but i guess we all can agree on that Tibia is fun when u are high level.