Demolition

Update on Iron Senpai - he was NOT demoted, he has temporarily resigned due to IRL reasons. He will return to the Forum Moderator position when he returns, sorry for the confusion.

Hey guys,

It's been a little while since we have had one of these, so there will be a few changes made.

@Otto resigned from Global Moderator and came back shortly after. We're happy to have him back on the team.

@Saint Lucia was promoted to Global Moderator. He's a veteran staff member who we're happy could join us again.

@F 8 was promoted to Global Moderator. We are very happy to be welcoming him back after his short but needed break.

@Demolition switched to Forum Moderator due to personal reasons.

@6ixKid was promoted to Server Support. We wish him the best of luck in his new position!

@Chiszle was promoted to Server Support. We wish him the best of luck in his new position!

@Syrinx was promoted to Server Support. We wish him the best of luck in his new position!

@Xrapierx was demoted from Server Support. We'd like to thank him for his time as a staff member. Best wishes.

@Jedzio was demoted from Server Moderator. We'd like to thank him for his time as a staff member and all of his
contributions to the server.

@Iron Senpai Has temporarily resigned from his duties. We wish him a quick return!

@Daltino resigned from Server Support. I believe it was not mentioned in the previous update threads, but we'd like to thank him for his time as a staff member and all of his contributions to the server. Best wishes.

Congratulations to all of those promoted, I'm sure you'll do a great job in your new positions.


All credits to @Volta for taking the time to write the thread.

Thanks for the sweet updates! Loved this one in particular.

Some good promotions, I'm glad to see @Jare get his deserved promotion. F8 was an extraordinary staff member and I hope to see him return one day. 

Hey guys,

We've got some pretty big changes with the staff team this week.
First off I would like the start with someone who has really given his all to and for Alora, maybe even too much to the point where it had a critical impact on him, our former administrator F 8. First I'd like to thank him a ton for what he has given us and all the time he has poured into our server. Some of you may under appreciate our administration team, hey maybe even I under appreciate them sometimes due to all the work they do for us. F 8 truly has done an amazing job as an administrator. He's helped me with quite a bit of administrative duties, along with hosting our weekly events! He's given a lot of time to testing Raids(along with other people) trying to make sure, you guys, would get the best experience possible. With all that being said it is with great sadness that F 8 has decided that he needs to take a step back from the scene as it was getting unhealthy(you can read more about it in his farewell). We personally wish him nothing but the best and personally I hope that he does return to us as he was a role model for our players,and our staff. Once again we'd like to that him for everything he's put into Alora.

Moving into other staff updates
Jare has been promoted to administrator. He'll be helping me with certain tasks, as well as quality checks,and regular administration duties.

Sux has been promoted to server support.

Volta has resigned from forum moderator, this was quite some time ago, but I forgot to make a staff update for it. Once again nothing but the best wishes.

Im Combat 3 has been promoted to server support, hopefully this takes some strain away from the Australian time zone.

I've had a talk with Nick and we both, came to the mutual agreement that it would be best to step down from forum moderator as his duties currently lie elsewhere. We wish him the best.

Xrapierx has been promoted to server support.

Flipper has been promoted to server support.

Mystogan has been promoted to server moderator.

Beproud (Elvemage) has come back as a server moderator by finishing his duties for school.


Think there might be a follow up staff update later today (today for EU & AU) tmw for America. We'll see what I come up with certainly some restructure coming about, but that's it for now.

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Alora Administration Team

Nuff said

Hey guys,

I want to thank all of you for reporting all of the raids bugs so quickly! Many of these bugs are game-breaking and needed to be fixed ASAP, which is why I'm pushing this update tonight to address most of them. It seems that most of you are enjoying raids even through the bugs, which is awesome, and I guarantee that it will only get better :)

• You no longer have to wait 2 minutes anymore for the raid to begin.
  • As soon as the party is ready, the leader can choose to start the raid. No players can enter once that is done.
• Fixed a major bug causing certain NPCs(Vasa nistirio, Vanguards, muttadiles) to be "unattackable" if a player died and came back.
  • This essentially made certain bosses unattackable on death and should now be functioning as intended.
• Fixed an OpenGL crash issue in the third (Ice demon) room.
  • This may also fix OpenGL crashes in other areas that I am unaware of, as it is due to the way the minimap is drawing objects. You must restart your client loader (alora.jar) or redownload the new rar file if you are not using the updater! 
• Certain loot rates have been decreased.
  • Additionally, there was a bug causing players to receive 5 reward items rather than 3 items although they were not donators, this oversight has been fixed.
• Vasa nistirio changes:
  • During the healing phase, if the crystal Vasa is absorbing energy from dies, he will walk back to the center immediately.
  • During his special attack, players who are teleported to the center will only be dealt his special attack damage, and not the usual damage dealt from standing under him.
  • Vasa will no longer throw 2 rocks on the same/close tile, they must all be at least 1 tile away from each other.
    • He will also throw a slightly lower # of rocks for large parties.
• Muttadile changes:
  • The mother will no longer attack with 2 fire balls while outside of the water.
  • The fire balls' damage/accuracy has been reduced.
• Dungeon drops:
  • Dungeon drops from bosses can now be picked up by ironmen and shared by the group as intended.
    • This also fixes the drops that should be visible by all players if an ironman kills a creature.
  • A tinderbox spawn has been added in the Ice demon room
  • A fishing net has been added in the Corrupted scavenger room
  • Fish will now drop in the cooked form more often.
  • Xeric's aid(saradomin brew) and Revitalisation potions(restores) will now drop more often than other pots
  • Bosses will now drop brews/restores instead of other potions.
  • Potions will drop slightly more often, while junk drops (fishing net) have been reduced.
• Vanguard changes:
  • Vanguards % hitpoints difference threshold has been increased to 25% from 20%.
    • It will now be slightly easier to not trigger their healing.
  • The range/mage vanguards will now throw less attacks(rocks) towards players, especially in large groups.
• Ice demon changes:
  • The ice demon's hp bar should now "refresh" more often while he is frozen to show progress accurately.
• Keystone room changes:

  • Deathly rangers/mages will now drop loot under your feet(whoever dealt the last blow)

  • You will now be able to loot these supplies which should make fighting Olm slightly easier.

  • Crossing over the tight rope should now be less buggy, and you should not get stuck on it anymore.

Hopefully that fixes all of the major bugs, and if any of these bugs are still present(as I did not have a huge amount of time to test, wanting to get this out quickly) please post a bug report.

Cheers :)

- Omicron

Hello everyone,

I'm extremely happy to announce that raids are now available for everyone! The staff team and I have had a busy few weeks figuring out all of the details to put it all together, and I'm excited to see all of you online and enjoying the new content :) I've stayed up all night to make sure that all of the loose ends are tied, and I have no doubts that we may have missed a few things, so if you find any bugs please be sure to report them, and know that they will get resolved quickly.


Raids overview:

• Party features:
  • Your clan leader can create a party to enter the raids dungeon, at which point all clan members are notified that they have 2 minutes to enter the raid.
• General features:
  • 12 rooms total, not including the final Olm boss room
  • Scaling:
    • Damage, timers, rewards, etc are all scaled to the size of the party.
    • This does not mean a solo raid is an easy task, but it does mean that parties with large teams will be increasingly difficult as the size increases.
  • Items dropped on the ground(by players, or NPC loot) last for 1 hour before disappearing
  • Resources:
    • Overloads (dropped by Tekton, 1 for each player)
    • Boosts all stats by 6 + 16% every 15 seconds for 5 minutes
    • Hits 50 damage when you drink the first dose, but this is re-healed at the end of the 5 minutes.
  • Xeric's aid, Kodai, Elder, Twisted, Revitalisation and Prayer enhance potions available
  • Most resources can be collected as drops from bosses or mobs within the dungeon.
  • There will occasionally be a fishing spot to fish, but you must have kindling to light a fire and cook the fish.
  • Additionally, there is a room in the dungeon with a few bats to catch and cook.
• Death mechanics:
  • Although you do not lose items on death, if you die within the raid you will lose points:
  • Regular players lose 33% of their total points, whereas donators lose:
  • Donator: 30%
  • Super: 25%
  • Extreme: 20%
  • Legendary: 15%
  • Uber: 10%

Boss mechanics:

• Ice demon:
  • Sappling trees must be chopped in order to obtain kindling to light all 4 braziers surrounding the demon.
  • The icefiends will try to extinguish the braziers, and you must keep them fully lit for the boss to melt!
• Vasa Nistirio:
  • Vasa will attack players with Ranged based rocks, as well as a Magic-based special attack performed every so often where he teleports half of the players into the center of the room and stuns them. During this period, the non-stunned players must help their team mates by running as close to the center as possible.
  • The more distance between the non-stunned players and Vasa, the more damage dealt to those stunned.
  • Vasa will walk to one of the 4 crystals in the corners to heal every so often. If you do not kill the crystal in time, he will perform the special attack upon returning to the center.
• Vanguards:
  • The 3 different Vanguards(melee, magic, ranged) must be attacked with the opposite style to deal effective damage!
  • The most important thing to keep in mind for this room is that all 3 vanguards must be kept at similar hitpoints. If there is a difference of more than 20% HP for any of the vanguards, they will all heal the next time they burrow into the ground.
• Corrupted Scavenger:
  • You must search the chests in the room to feed the corrupted scavenger and put him to sleep.
• Skeletal mystics:
  • Simple room with 3 Skeletal mystics -- it is advisable to try not to aggrevate more than one at a time.
• Tekton:
  • Tekton is a powerful melee-based boss which obtains his strength from the Giant anvil in his room.
  • Every so often, he will head to the anvil to sharpen his blade. During this time, flaming hot shards will fly around the room (ranged based) and must be avoided. After a short period, Tekton will leave the anvil(enraged) and will be very aggressive and stronger than usual. After a short while, he will return to his normal(non-enraged) phase.
• Muttadiles:
  • The baby muttadile, which uses ranged attacks, must first be fought, while the mother attacks from the water with Magic. The idea is to keep the Muttadiles away from the meat tree, this can be done by either chopping the meat tree so that they cannot eat from it, or freezing them to block their path. Once the baby muttadilehas been defeated, the mother will come out of the water. She is significantly stronger, using all 3 combatstyles as well as having an impressively high hitting chomp(melee) which can hit up to 60.
• Deathly rangers and mages:
  • In this room, you must be wary of the 6 different deathlies which are protecting the Keystone crystal.
    • It is located on the other end of a crossrope, and if you cross over before killing the deathlies, there is a very high chance of being killed
• Olm:
  • Combat bonus scaling:
    • Combat bonuses scaled to party size
  • Phases scaled: (including the penultimate phase)
    • 2 phases for a 1 person party
    • 3 phases for a <= 7 person party
    • 4 phases for a <= 14 person party
    • 5 phases for a <= 25 person party(maximum)
    • (The later the phase, the more frequent the special attacks and more powerful Olm becomes)
  • Head attacks:
    • Drain spheres special attack which sap prayer and disable overheads:
      • Blue(magic) sphere
      • Red(melee) sphere
      • Green(range) sphere
    • Normal attacks:
      • Green "shard" (Ranged)
      • Green "orb" (Magic)
    • Posion special attack:
      • Affected players will repeatedly shout "Burn with me!"
      • Those who stand too close to someone burning will shout "I will burn with you." and inflict the poison upon themselves.
  • Acid pool shot
    • Olm will create multiple acid pools in the room in random locations, and players who step on them will be constantly dealt with poison damage.
  • Final phase only: Life Siphon
    • During this phase, Olm will shoot two blue pools out into the field, which all players are required to stand on. Any player not standing on this pool will be dealt damage, and Olm will heal itself by that amount of damage.
• Room effects:
  • Acid trail:
    • Olm will target 1 player who will create an acid pool wherever they walk, which other players must avoid.
  • Stalagmite fall - targets 1 player:
    • Olm will shout out a cry, and one player will have a red portal glow and stalagmites falling on them frequently.(they may damage other players in the vicinity)
  • Ground spikes:
    • Every player will see small spikes spawn under them, which will turn into a large crystal quickly thereafter and deal a high amount of damage to any players who have not moved away.
  • When Olm has dipped underground to recover for the next phase, the room will shake and stalagmites will fall and deal heavy damage.
    • Upon resurfacing, Olm will have moved to the other side of the cave.
• Left hand specials:
  • Lightning wave/wall that runs through the room
  • Player swap(confuse)
    • Two players are selected and a colored glow surrounds them. In 3 seconds, they must be on the same tile or close by, otherwise their positions are swapped and they are dealt damage based on distance
  • Heal aura (Final phase)
    • If you hit the left hand while the heal aura insignia is shown, your damage will work to heal the left hand rather than hurt it.
  • Olm's left hand will become unattackable every so often

Reward system:

• Based on real loot tables from OSRS
  • Chance to hit unique table scales based on the points you received in the raid(from damage or skilling)
• Loot amounts by donator rank:
  • Uber: 5
  • Legendary: 4
  • All others(including non-donators): 3
• Amount of resources and supplies are partially based on the points you've received
• Olm pet with the proper dialogues // animations(laughing animation as well)

Weapons:

• Twisted bow:
  • Highly increases damage and accuracy against targets based on their magic level/bonuses
• Elder maul:
  • A two-handed weapon which deals incredibly high damage.
• Dragon sword:
  • A sword with a special attack which increases accuracy/damage by 25% and ignores protection prayer.
• Kodai wand:
  • 15% chance to not remove runes for casting a spell(Also fixed for both SOTD's -- was broken)
  • Unlimited water runes
• Dragon hunter crossbow:
  • 10% more damage and accuracy against Olm, dragons and Wyverns
• Dinh's bulwark
• Dragon thrownaxes
• Prayer scroll
• Dragon harpoon
  • Catch fish at a 20% faster rate
  • You can also save an inventory spot by equipping the harpoon, provided that you have 60 attack.
  • (Infernal harpoon will be added soon, along with fixing the old infernal equipment)

New prayers:

• *Note*
  • All of the following prayers must be unlocked by a Prayer scroll.
  • Upon reading the scroll, you can select 1 of the 3 prayers to permanently unlock.
• Preserve:
  • Requires level 55 Prayer
  • Boosted stats last 20% longer
• Rigour:
  • Requires level 74 Prayer
  • Increases Ranged attack by 20% (accuracy)
  • Increases Ranged damage by 23%
  • Increases Defence by 25%
• Augury:
  • Requires level 77 Prayer
  • Increases Magical attack by 25% (accuracy)
  • Increases Defence by 25%

General updates:

• Equipment tab changes:
  • Right-click options on jewellery
• OpenGL rendering distance increased:
  • While on OpenGL mode, you will now be able to see more of the landscape, with the rendering distance increased by almost double what it was at before.
• Fixed all crossbow speeds(Besides rune/addy which were already correct)
• Webshop changes:
  • Uber donator rank has been added which includes:
    • An enhancement to the Legendary donator benefits, with two useful new benefits:
      • 5 items vs. the usual 3 from a raids reward chest
      • Only 10% of your points are lost on death in a raids session rather than 33% for normal players
    • More benefits will be added in the near future!
      • Additionally, there will be a "benefits" table added to the webstore for a clear chart of the benefits that each rank receives.
  • Shop item additions:
    • Dragon warhammer
    • Prayer scroll
      • You can use this to unlock any one of the new prayers(Preserve, rigour augury).
    • Dragon harpoon
  • Promotional sale:
    • Mystery box - 45 tokens
    • Super combat potions - 25 tokens
    • Verac's armour set - 55 tokens
    • Armadyl crossbow - 225 tokens
    • Imbued heart - 300 tokens
• Voting changes:
  • Voting points have been increased to 25 instead of 20 as there are now 5 toplists to vote on rather than 4 (4 minimum to get an auth)
• Occult ornament kit is now functional

Enjoy! And good luck :)

Regards,
Omicron

Make sure your schedule is cleared up for this weekend

LEAKED INFO, EVERYBODY I REPEAT EVERYBODY NEEDS TO BE AVAILABLE THIS WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@@@@@@@@@@@

Hello and welcome back to another exciting edition of the Alora Newspaper!

We had some pretty awesome updates this week and I must appreciate Omicron on all his hard work.

Combat/wilderness changes:

We've reworked the way the formula which determines whether you will hit or not works, The formulas overall were inaccurate and have been tweaked to be more similar to OSRS. This includes special attack accuracy which has also been reworked.

Mountain daughter quest added:

Speak to Hamal the Chieftain in Draynor village to fight against the Kendal

Unlock his shop to view:

Bearhead

Proselyte gear packages

 

Gambling

Mithril seeds added to the webshop.

The "Gamble" clan chat has been created. Ranks will be added soon.

 

Christmas updates:

Some of your pets and certain bosses have received a festive makeover for the holidays!

Falador has been struck by a snow storm! The town crier in Edgeville will notify players that their assistance is  required in Falador!

Santa's factory has shut down due to an infestation of pests. Speak to Carol in Falador to help out!

 

 

 

There were not any rule updates this week in alora, stay tuned for next week!

 

 

 

There were a couple of changes to the staff team this week.

 

The following promotions happened.

 

Ikta has been promoted to administrator, he'll be helping Lowkey and myself with admin+ related issues. 

 

Volta has been promoted to server mod.

 

Thunder has been promoted to server mod.

 

Sheep has been promoted to server support.

 

Demolition has been promoted to server support.

 

Otto has been promoted to server support.

 

Udead has been promoted to server support.

 

uTorrent has been promoted to Forum Moderator.

 

Unfortunetly we also saw one of our staff members go.

 

Caliphate has resigned from his global mod position, we wish him the best.

 

 

 

As always it's time to announce he's this weeks Player Of the Week. This player has been pretty helpful these past few days and has shown commitement to the server. We'd like to congradulate Mewtwo on becoming this week's player of the week.

 

Mewtwo will recieve a bond ingame. Please pm me when you get the chance for details.

 

 

 

The Interview process as been changed. Strato has Volunteered to do the interviews for the newspaper from now on. This week he interviews Elvemage & Omicron

 

Elvemage's Interview

 

Strato: You've proven yourself worthy of every staff position you've ever held in Alora, what is the #1 advice you can give to non-staff members who have been applying for the team?

 

Elvemage: The most important advice I can give about being a staff member is that you've got to understand the need of the player.

 The conversation between a regular player and a staff member has to be effective.

Let him know you're taking the question seriously even if the question is silly. 

This will make the indivual happy after you helped him out and that's all we need as a crew.

 

Strato: If there was one thing you could improve about yourself, what would it be, and why?

 

Elvemage: I'm taking my postion very seriously. I also know I could improve myself in many ways. I feel I need to focus more on prioritizing things.

With the ever-increasing player base, I get an extremely large amount of PMs every day, from something extremely silly, to something of utmost importance. I will try my best in

prioritizing the issues so that everything gets handled the right way.

 

 

Strato: You clearly dedicate a lot of time in contributing towards Alora, What do you get in return?

 

Elvemage: I do not think of my role as a moderator, a chore at all. It is the simple joy of helping out the server overall that motivates me.  I do what I love and love what I do.

 

Omicron's Interview

 

Strato: As the founder and developer, where do you see Alora in the near future?

 

Omicron: Alora has always exceeded my expectations, and we've grown and flourished more than I had anticipated in the past month and a half. Taking that into consideration, I could only expect the same for the future. I intend to do my best to provide the most enjoyable experience for the community, as well as future prospective members. 

 

 

Strato: You've seen some good days, as well as some rough ones. What keeps you going?

 

Omicron: Some days are definitely better than others! There have been days where it seems that everything that can go wrong has gone wrong, but we've always managed to persevere and come back even stronger. I could not do it without the support of the community though, otherwise I'd feel like I'm in this all alone. I can't express how crucial the staff team's support has been, especially during those bad days where they all work together to keep things in order. When things aren't going great and I get discouraged, I also remind myself of how many people in the community love and enjoy playing Alora, and how I'd be letting them down if I didn't give it my all. 

 

 

Strato: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be, and why?

 

Omicron: One of my not-so-great qualities is that I'm not always as calm and collected as I could be during stressful situations, and consequently I tend to not think rationally. Tying in with the previous answer, there are times when I could become irritable if I'm stressed out, which isn't good at all.

 

 

Special thanks to Strato for helping me this week!

 

Thanks for reading this week's newspaper. Feel free fre suggest any additions for next week's edition on a post below.  :)

 

Hmm, I take it you just opened and pasted that in as what you said has nothing to do with what this topic is about, you're making it clear why you're the #1 poster though >.>

 

On topic:

 

Get that faggot off here. He scams all day and admits to it in his videos, yet people still trust him and pay him to advertise their server.

Lmfao, thanks captain Obvious, I did that intentionally. It was obviously meant to be a prank. -.-

This thread is apparently "game suggestion", while the guy is giving his "feedback", and it's also in "Spam" section.

I made that comment, to express my irony on this post. This is obviously not a game suggestion, rofl.

Idk the purpose of this thread, other than flame the person. This won't do much, since there is no proof of it to get the potential "scammer" banned. So it's pointless, that's why it's in spam.

Anyway, I'm a #1 poster because I'm cool like that ty

Support


Very active, helpful, dedicated

Would be a great addition ingame
Good luck

Hello everyone,

As of today, we've officially been online for 1 month! We've also coincidentally broken our max player count today by reaching over 500 players online, which is incredible for only a month of uptime. 

We've experienced major growth in the past month, and it goes without saying that we could not have done it without the constant support from all of you. We've had our ups and downs, but overall the past month has been a great experience that I hope all of you have enjoyed. I personally want to let you know that I am grateful for not only the patience that all of you have had while we dealt with issues, but also for helping to better our server and community on a daily basis, whether it be through bug reports and suggestions have been frequently posted, or simply welcoming new players and answering basic questions for them.

On behalf of the staff team, I'd like to take a moment to thank all of you for being a part of Alora and helping to shape our community into what it is today, and I am excited for what the future holds :)

Some media from events today:

Regards,

Omicron