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[Eby]

What is your suggestion?:

Add one or two Sailing-related items to the Vote Shop.
Is this in OSRS?:
No because OSRS doesn't have a vote shop 
 

Has this suggestion been accepted already?:
Not that I know of
 

How would this benefit Alora?:

Increasing Alora's Player Count via Increased Natural Voting.

Most of Alora's traffic and new players arrive at Alora via 1 of the 4 websites you see when you type ::vote. I joined Alora via one of them. You want the announcement of Sailing to be matched by vote volume to promote Alora to the top of the charts. All players in Alora benefit by increasing the player count. This is like the network effect Facebook, Whatsapp, Youtube, and the dating apps share. 

It's a small suggestion, but the growth of player base this suggestion is designed to cause, positively affects the experience of pretty much every player in Alora. However some people may be critical of this suggestion if they prefer a lower player-count in Alora.

Rather than taking time, this suggestion helps you save time in order to release sailing faster.  First mover-advantage is real. As one example, imagine how few people would care about another rideshare app being released today given that Uber and Lyft already exist. What I'm saying is, being first or second to market with Sailing will be a huge advantage and this suggestion helps unlock that market + it helps grow the player base.

Sailing will be a great update. Let's have the marketing via your rankings in the voting websites coincide with that hard work.

Vote book shop is getting stale anyways.

Regards, 
Eby
Alora's #1 in Total Vote Book Trade Volume for perhaps the last 1 or 2 years

[Ivy]

I think adding a couple of sailing items into the shop would be a great idea. What items would they be that would help promote the release of sailing?

[Eby]

I think adding a couple of sailing items into the shop would be a great idea. What items would they be that would help promote the release of sailing?

I haven't played sailing in OSRS. Alora Sailing will be my first experience of it so I don't want to speculate on the exact items. I'll leave that decision up to you, Omi or whomever has a reasonable final suggestion for that. That's a great discussion topic here but I'm impartial.

I also want to mention that the timing of this suggestion landing should probably coincide with the first release of sailing for best effect.

[Kareem Sqr]

I don't mind this, actually it would be a great idea in my opinion! Support 

[0475BOY0475]

 great idea! Support 

[GIM Flex]

can we make them POH storable items so that us UiM’s can also start stocking

[colordeus]

what items would be added anyway??? to promote? and how would this help release sailing faster, thats a development thing, putting random items in the vote shop isnt gonna magically speed up dan's coding, also this looks like a narcissistic opportunity to start selling stuff early for money, and adding sailing items isnt gonna help grow the playerbase, i feel like even an announcement is gonna do more work than that, also from what i know alora is the only rsps making sailing anyway, most of the content for the first part of the upd is done so i'm not sure what theyre working on rn but adding items to the vote shop isnt gonna speed anything up

overall this just sounds like you looking for an opportunity to merch after losing that bowfa to pker without spending effort actually training sailing which is a rather fun skill, no support whatsoever

[Harpie Queen]

support, belle folly or rosewood bp would be a dream.

[Heaven Sent]

Vote store definitely needs an update, but uh… Yeah, this ain’t the one, chief.

[No Luck RNG]

I’d support adding a couple of Sailing-related items to the Vote Shop, as long as they’re balanced appropriately.

I also agree with the point about using Sailing to bring some extra attention to Alora. With Sailing being such a major piece of newer OSRS content, having some themed rewards available around it could help make Alora feel current and give returning or potential new players something recognizable to check out.

I’d just prefer the rewards to be cosmetic, convenience-based, or otherwise non-essential rather than anything that skips meaningful Sailing progression. That way it helps refresh the Vote Shop, encourages voting, and potentially brings some extra eyes onto the server without turning the shop into a shortcut for the skill.

Support from me if it’s implemented carefully. 

[H]

A list of items would greatly help the suggestion, do you have any ideas in mind?

@ Eby

[Heaven Sent]

A list of items would greatly help the suggestion, do you have any ideas in mind?

@Eby

Can't think of many items off the top of my head right now, but the gem sack is a good shout actually. It can hold either 60 or 80 of every type of uncut gem (can’t remember which), from opal all the way up to dragonstone.

[GIM Eby]

H, on 01 Sept 2026 - 8:38 PM, said:

A list of items would greatly help the suggestion, do you have any ideas in mind?

@Eby

Can't think of many items off the top of my head right now, but the gem sack is a good shout actually. It can hold either 60 or 80 of every type of uncut gem (can’t remember which), from opal all the way up to dragonstone.

 

 

 

 

@Heaven Sent, Good comment, but looks like the gem bag is already in the vote shop, and it's a Crafting item anyhow. What I'm aiming for is a Sailing item as popular as crystal keys or Sherlock notes. If we go the cosmetic route instead, I'd price it around 3k, 6k, or 9k vote points.

 

@H Yes, I do now. Four ideas:

 

1. Boat speed boost (shop item)

 

A perk that makes your boat ~25% (or ~50%) faster for 15 minutes per book (20 max), stacking exactly like the XP boost. Read four books back to back and you're sailing at Porsche speed for an hour. It would put real action into the long hauls: Port Sarim to Port Tyras, Zul-andra, Port Phasmatys.

 

To sell it as an item to consume vote points: "Bottled Dragonfire." Secondary use: a few bottles recharge your DFS (melee shield), ancient wyvern shield (mage shield), or dragonfire ward (ranged shield) without a trip to the dragons to charge it. Weak but expected use case. Making bottled dragonfire from dragonfruit is unimplemented in Alora and using sweet cactus fruit to make dragonfire never made sense anyway.

 

Note: This perk should be disabled / not available during any point of the Baracuda Trials. 

 

2. Daily Task Board reset (shop item, ~110 points ≈ 3 vote books)

 

An item that resets your Daily Task Board. Some players online report `Daily Task Board fatigue: port tasks only refreshing once per day discouraged them from training Sailing on days they'd already burned through the worthwhile tasks, and it started feeling like "DailyScape."` A reset item fixes that.

 

Balance-wise it's safe because voting is on a 12-hour cooldown timer, so the supply of these is naturally time-gated. Low-volume concern: this might be dead content at 99, plenty of players will just camp salvaging regardless, and there may already be a different progressive system than daily tasks planned.

 

3. Ocean Encounter odds boost (vote book perk or shop item)

 

Increases the chance of an Ocean Encounter (https://oldschool.ru...cean_encounters) by ~20% for 30 minutes. The perk form is the simplest version. As an item, I picture a pint of "extra dark" squid ink. To be practical it would need to be a stackable, a 4-dose like Guthix rest, or a single dark pint that lasts 4x as long for 4x the points.

I can't confidently price this one like the others above because I don't even know which encounters are in Sailing, but if forced at gunpoint: 115 points per 30 minutes.

 

4. Cannon max hit brew (vote book perk or shop item)

 

Same pint theme: temporarily raises cannon max hit by +1, or +2 if you have a Keg of Perildance Bitter installed, since that keg already gives +1.

 

Why no Sailing uniques

 

I deliberately left out Sailing uniques like dragon cannonballs because (AFAIK) every Sailing unique in OSRS has crashed in price (unfortunately), and I don't want to devalue the Sailing rewards here.

 

Coming up with these was a genuine balancing act. #1 is my favorite, probably because I'm a guy and guys like fast cars . For the calmer skillers who'd rather not have more action, #2, #3, #4 are the play.

 

Side notes

• Bug check: Seed Box should support Cotton Seeds, Hemp Seeds, and any other Sailing seeds.
• Success metric: this suggestion worked if vote books rise from 6m to 7m (+16%).
• For anyone wanting to merch in the next 2 days, consider selling: logs, nails, planks, bars, rope, swamp paste, ores. Lowest tiers appear to have the highest ROI. Bronze bars are 500k ea at time of writing while rune bars are only ~20k ea. No one is selling swamp paste today yet.
• Vote books generally give 37.5 vote points per book.

Shameless self-promotion + AI disclosure: I prompted an LLM through a Mac app I built this year (also on iOS) to make the original dense wall of text here "more readable." I've always been better with computers than writing.

[Heaven Sent]

@Heaven Sent, Good comment, but looks like the gem bag is already in the vote shop, and it's a Crafting item anyhow. What I'm aiming for is a Sailing item as popular as crystal keys or Sherlock notes. If we go the cosmetic route instead, I'd price it around 3k, 6k, or 9k vote points.

 

Ohh I see, I thought you were trying to bring in other items that came along with Sailing, like the gem sack, extended stam pots, etc.

Btw, the gem sack holds all tiers of uncut gems, while the regular gem bag only holds the traditional ones.