Hello Alorians and welcome to the 2021 Summer Community Awards! This will be the second year voting of the seasonal community awards, good luck to all nominees. <3   I'd be grateful if you could take a couple of minutes and vote for your nominations in the Summer Community awards!   This thread will be up until 6/26 and the results/signatures will be posted by 6/30, don't miss your chance to vote!   Thank you for participating!   RULES:   1) Guest Accounts will not have their votes counted! 2) You must fill out the entire template provided below. If you do not have anyone to vote for please leave it blank instead.   3) You may NOT vote for yourself. 4) You CANNOT vote for the same person more than 6 times. 5) Any troll posts will be removed and the poster will be infracted. 6) No buying/selling or asking for votes.   Any breached rule will result in disqualification.   Please fill out  75% of the template or your votes will not be counted!     Staff     Best Administrator:   Best Global Moderator:   Best Forum Moderator:   Best Server Moderator:   Best Server Support:   Most active on Discord:   Most active In-game:   Most active on Forums:   Most Respected:   Most Potential Promotion:   Funniest Staff Member:   Overall Best Staff Member:     Players     Most Active In-game:   Most Active on Forums:   Most Active on Discord:   Most Active Overall:   Most Wealthy:   Most Addicted to Gambling:   Most Friendly:   Most Respected:   Coolest Veteran:    Best Helper:   Best Edgeville Pker:   Best Hybrid:   Best NH Pker:   Best PvMer:   Best Raider:   Best Skiller:   Best Clan:   Best Ironman:   Best Hardcore Ironman:   Best Ultimate Ironman:   Best Elite Ironman:   Best Group ironman (Team):    Best Group Ironman (Player):    Best Realism Player:   Best Classic Player:   Best GFX Designer:   Best Youtuber:   Best Streamer:   Top Overall:     Good luck!

Hello everyone, We realize that there's been a lack of information regarding updates recently, and that we've taken a bit longer than usual on the most recent update. This is because we have some huge ongoing projects in the pipeline, and today we're excited to share some of them with you! For the past few weeks/months, we've been working on multiple projects, including the GPU plugin, the World Map, the new OSRS interface that includes spellbook filtering and other features, Theatre of Blood hard mode and much more. We're hoping to bring all of these changes to the live server soon, and we're working extremely hard to make sure that happens!   World Map Players can expect to see this come within the next week or two, and we're heavily focusing on finishing this project at the moment.   GPU Plugin This is one of our more long term projects which we've been working on for a few months, however we hope to bring it to Alora sometime this summer.   Spellbook Filtering Along with (hopefully) the World Map, players can expect this in the coming weeks! Some extensive work was required to bring some of these newer OSRS interfaces to Alora, but the good news is that the time we've invested in adding support for OSRS interfaces will allow us to easily import interfaces whenever they update without spending time to remake them. Previously, any interface that we wanted to add would need to be hand built by us, which is a very time consuming process in most cases. Adding this support to the client means that we can easily use any of OSRS's interfaces, past or present, which should make a lot more content possible and within an easier reach. We're happy to say this also opens up the possibility for the Clans update, which included many new and complex interfaces (however this isn't in our scope yet). Theatre of Blood - Hard Mode Recently released on OSRS, we've been working on bringing the ToB Hard Mode to Alora! With all the new rewards, and a new challenge, we're sure that those of you who are into raiding will love this update. This should be released within the next couple of weeks if all goes well. We hope you've enjoyed this development blog, and we look forward to bringing this updates to Alora very shortly. Best, Omicron & Chad

Hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of The Alora Times! From here on out, myself and [member="A"] will be handling the newspaper. Sorry for the delay once again. Enjoy this months Newspaper.   Nightmare Instances, Seed Vault, Fossil Island Content, PoH House Viewer & more! - May 2nd, 2021   Tempoross, Wilderness, Combat and CoX changes & more! - May 22nd, 2021   If you want to check out the entire update list, click here.     There haven't been any changes to the rules this month, but feel free to look them over for a refresher.      The Official Rules can be found here. There have been quite a few changes to the staff team this month, you can see them below.   May 2nd, 2021   Promotions:   [member=99] has been promoted to Global Moderator. [member=GIM Supor] has been promoted to Forum Moderator. [member=Memento Mori] has been promoted to Forum Moderator. [member=Shazadeh] has been promoted to Server Moderator. [member=Don Fiji] has returned to the Staff Team as Server Moderator. [member=jimmyhc] has been promoted to Server Support.   Resignations: [member=Adex] has resigned from Administrator. [member=Fear7heduck] has resigned from Server Moderator.     May 15th, 2021   Promotions: [member="A"] has returned to the Staff Team as Administrator. [member="Stone"] has been promoted to Administrator. [member="Ky"] has been promoted to Global Moderator. [member="Livn Country"] has been promoted to Forum Moderator. [member="Monaco"] has been promoted to Server Support. [member="Amica"] has been promoted to Server Support. [member="HC Ashley"] has been promoted to Server Support.   Resignations: [member="Shazadeh"] has resigned from Server Moderator.     May 29th, 2021   Promotions: [member="Champ"] has returned to the team as Global Moderator. [member="Fiji"] has been promoted to Forum Moderator. [member="Monaco"] has been promoted to Server Moderator. [member="To Gain"] has returned to the team as Server Support. [member="9"] has been promoted to Server Support. [member="J oshh"] has been promoted to Server Support.   Secondary ranks: [member="99"] has added a secondary rank to [member="Ryan"]. [member="Fiji"] has added a secondary rank to [member="ijiF"].   Resignations: [member="Memento Mori"] has resigned from Forum Moderator.   Demotions: [member="Citra"] has been demoted from Server Moderator.   For more info on Staff Updates, click here. This month we will be interviewing 2 of our new Server Supports: [member="J oshh"] and [member="Amica"]     Let's start off with [member="J oshh"]...    [member="Lowkey"]: Can you tell us about yourself? What hobbies do you enjoy? What do you enjoy doing in your free time? [member="J oshh"]: Hi, my name is Josh. Friends and family call me Hanky, have ever since i could remember. I'm a football and basketball fan. For football I've always been an Indianapolis Colts fan(I live in Indiana). Basketball, I have a few fav teams, but ever since I was little its been Pheonix Suns. HUGE Steve Nash fan. Currently with my free time I spend most of it on Alora. Otherwise I spend it with my family. My fiancee and I have been together for going on 3 years now. She has a 3 year old, the typical deadbeat dad situation. Naturally I had no issue taking over that figure and being a positive male figure in his life. I also have a dog that loves to go on walks and play fetch. [member="Lowkey"]: What do you like most about Alora? [member="J oshh"]: I feel like this kinda goes hand in hand with #3 (for some reason I answered this out of order) I love the staff involvement. Compared to other servers I've worked with/for Alora is by far the more organized with ranks and rank responsibilities. It was kinda intimidating at first when I was promoted and saw all the things Server Supports were resonsible for. I'm use to this role being like a temporary role to see if they could make it on the team. On Alora we're like the first line of defense when it comes to stuff. Knowing my past, the biggest thing about Alora that I adore is Omicrons involvement with the community. I've been on and worked with a handful of servers where the owner seemingly didn't give 2 shits about what the community wanted and only cared about making money. So far I haven't had any issues with lack of content or things to do on Alora, with plenty more to come   [member="Lowkey"]: Is there a memory on Alora that you will never forget about? [member="J oshh"]: I'm not sure if this classifies as a memory, but the day I was promoted to SS and got all the invites to the channels and whatnot. I felt like I was gonna fit in just fine here with everyone else on the staff team.   [member="Lowkey"]: Do you like pineapple on your pizza? [member="J oshh"]: Uh yes? I know some people view it as a cardinal sin, but I LOVE Hawaiian pizza. The real question is, barbecue sauce or pizza sauce.   [member="Lowkey"]: What are your thoughts on bald people? [member="J oshh"]: If you really think about it, under every head of hair, is a bald person. My father had a receding hairline, so it's only a matter of time before my thick ass head of hair thins.   Next up, [member="Amica"]!   [member="Lowkey"]: Can you tell us about yourself? What hobbies do you enjoy? What do you enjoy doing in your free time? [member="Amica"]: I'm 29 and live in the UK, got 2 kids (4 years old and 4 months old) which always keeps me on my toes between working and trying to find my own downtime to relax. The main 2 hobbies I've always had is football and gaming, tried the gym thing a few times but I prefer chilling out with a few beers and playing some Alora or Xbox. The only proper free time I get is at the weekends which in our house is always family time, taking the kids out etc. Occasionally get the odd night off to spend with the boys.   [member="Lowkey"]: What's your favorite activity to do on Alora? [member="Amica"]: 100% PvM, mixing it up between Slayer and doing raids.   [member="Lowkey"]: If you could change 1 thing about Alora, what would it be and why? [member="Amica"]: Instanced puro puro has always been on my fantasy list since I started playing the server and trying to grind some ranger boots. Now days it's more about those dragon imps for those arrows.   [member="Lowkey"]: Would you rather have no nose, or no arms? [member="Amica"]: Easy question when you have a 4 month old, no nose.   [member="Lowkey"]: When wiping with toilet paper, are you an over or under kind of guy? [member="Amica"]: Front to back and I'll argue at length with anyone that does it any other way.   Disclaimer: If you'd like to see a particular member of the Alora community interviewed and/or particular question answered, make sure leave your nomination on the Newspaper Interview Nomination thread each month.                                                            Here we honor our fallen comrades from the last month. We wish them the best on their new Ironman journeys and better luck next time (1000+ Total Level).   Spotlight:   Hardcore Ironman Dabs HC has fallen at 1,324 to Dabs HC!   Hardcore Ironman HCD has fallen at 1,932 to Zulrah!   Hardcore Ironman GooLeyMan has fallen at 1,249 to Ice troll male!   Hardcore Ironman HC BD has fallen at 1,746 to 22!   Hardcore Ironman HC Hehe has fallen at 1,187 to HC Hehe!   Hardcore Ironman Hc rx7 has fallen at 1,227 to Hc rx7!   Hardcore Ironman Over it has fallen at 1,230 to Deranged archaeologist!   Hardcore Ironman HC EP3 has fallen at 1,160 to HC EP3!   Hardcore Ironman hc tinderbox has fallen at 1,201 to Bronze dragon!   Hardcore Ironman hc wubzz has fallen at 1,636 to Kraken!   Hardcore Ironman HC Nex Toy has fallen at 1,211 to Black Demon!   Hardcore Ironman funkallday has fallen at 1,156 to Hellhound!   Hardcore Ironman HC Redskull has fallen at 1,058 to Zulrah!   Hardcore Ironman HC Spam Rip has fallen at 1,059 to Corporeal Beast!   Hardcore Ironman mad hc x2 has fallen at 1,816 to Smoke devil!   Hardcore Ironman HardMilf has fallen at 1,770 to Dreamland!   Hardcore Ironman ZumbassII has fallen at 1,216 to Maniacal monkey!   Hardcore Ironman iM Zerker has fallen at 1,513 to Quicksilver!   Hardcore Ironman Ungoliant has fallen at 2,106 to Iron Obilix!   Hardcore Ironman Daniel Son has fallen at 2,277 to Kraken!   Hardcore Ironman my revenge has fallen at 1,817 to Cerberus!   Hardcore Ironman FRIED NUGGET has fallen at 1,218 to Quicksilver!   Hardcore Ironman jeffs hc V2 has fallen at 1,602 to Zulrah!   Hardcore Ironman HC Muggle has fallen at 1,540 to Black Demon!   Hardcore Ironman darwinn pvp has fallen at 2,084 to Vorkath!   Hardcore Ironman HC NAGGER has fallen at 1,324 to needahrimjob!   Hardcore Ironman Tiny Sir has fallen at 1,659 to Dagannoth!   Hardcore Ironman UwU Stepbro has fallen at 1,253 to Dagannoth!                                         Stay up to date with the progress threads from the following members of the Alora Community:   Check out [member="HC Fopanz"] and his Hardcore Ironman progress after an entire year! https://www.alora.io/forums/topic/72741-365-days-without-planking-hc-fopanz/   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Big congratulations to [member="Gimslaving"] for reaching max XP on his GIM account!   Check out [member="Big Dummyboi"] and his loot from Chambers of Xeric https://www.alora.io/forums/topic/72439-chambers-of-xeric-juicy-lootations-gallery/   [member="izuk"] hasn't been here that long. Do you think he deserves this pet?! https://www.alora.io/forums/topic/72436-this-much-time-played-i-should-not-have-this-pet/       Disclaimer: Make a topic in our Goals and Achievements section or PM me on the forums/Discord with your accomplishment to be featured in this section! The winner of May MOTM is... [member="Miq"] Congratulations! You have stood out in the eyes of the Alora community. Thank you for being a great member here on Alora and enjoy your rewards. :) The link to the Member of the Month thread can be found here. Also, please make sure to check out our streamers and video makers. They would love to have you keep them company during their streams and check out the content they create for Alora.   Streamers   Skinz: https://www.youtube....OPWeqmn2yJNbXkA   Video Makers     I pk max jr: https://www.youtube....JjeeQaa7HqkyEzg Skinz: https://www.youtube....OPWeqmn2yJNbXkA ashrsps: https://www.youtube....MJ-HvtrO9492WKQ Walkchaos: https://www.youtube.com/c/Walkchaos   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilmVhc1bJT0   If you enjoy Alora content, make sure to hit the Subscribe button on their channels to show them your support!   If I've missed anyone I do apologize, just message me on the forums or on Discord with a link to your channel and I will add you in. That concludes this month’s edition of the Alora Newspaper! You can read the previous edition by clicking here