Volta

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A rare promotion that I agree with, congratulations Hot Cakes well deserved.

F 8 gratz on the inactive staff rank ay lmao

im glad im always on your mind

Ever since @Volta stopped playing words with friends on facebook with me I've had nothing to do, this gave me some sort of interaction with players.

 

OT: thanks for the heads up..

Hello. Would just like to clarify that I walked into his room only to find him googling words, cheating little punk. I knew there was no way he could be beating me 72-0.

OT: thanks for the heads up..

At this point in time the #BringBackOtto is more of a meme, you’re just too egotistical to look past that. Whenever I’ve been asked by players if I am going to go for staff again since my return, the answer has been no. I have no intentions to be staff again, be it if I was asked to return or not. It’s not happening.

FYI, it was Blank who unbanned me, not Dan. I remained banned for 8 weeks? And appealed, just like everyone else. You’re entitled to your opinion regarding how I ‘changed’ after getting higher positions but in reality you weren’t ever around that much to see anyway. Takes an inactive one to know one I guess! The amount of people who would like me back on the staff team speaks for itself.

As for the staff members who have commented on this post; they were friends with me before the fiasco happened, during and remain afterwards. None of them agree with what I did, neither do I. They most certainly don’t condone it. Because they’ve welcomed back someone who’s been a friend of theirs for a year you question their integrity towards the server? That says more about yourself than those in question.

Thanks for the comment!

You can say it's a meme all you want, when you're going around spamming it, that's when I find it hard to believe. Judging from the kind of person I believe you are, I find it very hard to believe that the reason for your coming back was solely to be part of the community again. Keep trying to tell yourself and others that, but I wouldn't be surprised to see your Staff Application in the next few weeks!

If you think Blank unbanned you without Dans consent or knowledge then you're more of an idiot than I thought. Dan has done this kind of stuff before, so I'm confident in the fact that he had a part to play with you being here now. If you want to call holding the gamble logs hostage as "appealing" then you do you, pal. And I was inactive for parts of my time on the staff team, no denying that. But if you think it was even a competition between you and I near the end of your time, then you're dead wrong. Even @Prague was more active than you. And that's exactly what I'm concerned about. The fact that this staff team knows what you have done and still want you to be part of their team says more about them than it does for you. You can say what you want about them, they're your friends. I personally think it's a dumb move by them and they need to get their priorities straight. 

Have a fun stay, princess.

Can't say I'm too psyched to see you lurking around now. I wasn't planning on commenting on this, but since I see you saying "#BringBackOtto" every 5 minutes and because knowing the shit that goes down on this Staff Team, you're probably going to make it back. And in all honesty, if you ever decide to make a Staff Application I most likely won't be around to comment on it, so I figured I might as well.

First of all, I'd like to say that I actually do admire your honesty and bringing the entire story to the public. Not a lot of people would do that, so kudos to you.

Secondly, just because you decided to be honest with the public, does not mean you should get a second chance to be on the team. Hell, I don't even think you should be unbanned right now, but seeing as Dan loves to unban scammers/RWTers, it all makes sense. You had a position of power, you went inactive and then decided to take from the CC you were trusted with, stake it and had the intentions to sell the gold for your own profit. Not only that, after you were banned you tried to hold the Gamble logs hostage for your unban? That's all kinds of shady shit that I don't understand could be let back into this community, let alone considered for another spot among the team. If you did it once, I wouldn't be surprised if you did it again.

While I'm at it, I might as share my opinion of you even before this incident happened. At the start, I strongly recommended you as a Server Support because I saw you helping around a lot and you seemed like a nice guy. Once you were promoted, everything was smooth sailing until you reached Global. That's where shit hit the fan. I can honestly say from my time on the team with you, you're an arrogant, power hungry individual and I wasn't surprised at all when I heard the news. You had a tendency of helping out your friends and being unfair with your punishments, but none of that seems to matter since Dan and the staff team enjoy you as a person. You have none of the traits someone on the Staff Team should have.

I guess since this is a "Welcome Back" thread, I might as well say this. You really shouldn't be here, and since you are it's just a sign that the staff team who have commented on this and the ones responsible for bringing you back have gone severely downhill. 

Cheers!

 

i thought i was getting co-owner promo this time around lol

 

 

 

you're way too big of a liability

 In this guide I'll be doing my best to show you the process for 1-99 Construction and information to help you in your journey to making the best house on Alora. I'll start with the 1-99 and then move onto misc. information towards the end.

Huge shout-out to @casual for helping with certain areas of the thread, and for doing more than half of our in-depth spreadsheet, and @Chase for supplying all of the graphics in this thread!

Before getting started, remember to enable ;;2fa, so when you get vote books you also get an experience boost which will help a ton when training Construction. A guide for enabling 2FA can be found here;

http://www.alora.io/...tication-guide/

Also, please note that the Chairs/Larders/Tables needed for obtaining a certain level is based off EXP given from Well of Goodwill ONLY, not including Vote Bonuses.

For these parts of the guide, I'll make it color coded. Green = Planks Needed, and Orange = # of said item needed to obtain the desired level.

Spoiler

 

123660 xp needed for level 52.

• Start with building a Kitchen next. Locate the "Larder" building spot and build Oak Larders until 52.

 

Room: Kitchen

Item to make: Oak Larder (8 Oak Planks)

 

4 Oak Larders (8 Oak Planks). 32 Oak Planks needed. Grants 29,952xp per larder, 44,928xp with Vote bonus.

 

That's it for the leveling process. Anything below is just misc. information that will hopefully help you out with your Construction needs. Unfortunately, I won't be providing the EXP of each item made as I don't have that kind of resources, but I'll do my best to include everything else.

Casual - Helping with EXP rates/1-99 guide/Item spreadsheet.

Algalon - For pinning the thread and being an overall great guy.

uTorrent - Gave me 10M to buy a house/demanded a shout-out.

Postimees - Gave me a vote book to help with EXP rates.

Chase - For making all of the Graphics.

Omicron - For making Construction.

If you have any other questions/concerns regarding Construction or anything about the thread, please feel free to leave a comment or PM me on the Forums/Discord.

Cheers.

I'm sorry I doubted you. There are over 3 million people on Earth though so I don't know how we'd find out who was behind the discord ban. Got any ideas?

It's okay. Everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days. We should start off by using our algorithms to analyze the handwriting on these letters, that'll be a good start. Can you meet at home base at 2PM PST? 

I am here before you because I have been feeling very sad recently. My good friend uTorrent and I have been... arguing.. recently. I am here to say that I am sorry for what I have done, friend. But, it is time you know... It wasn't me who had the idea of discord banning you... I have been getting these very suspicious letters in the mail recently, and I have no idea who they have come from...

Now, Justin. We shall work together to bring down whoever it was sending me these letters and let them know we are not to be trifled with. 

And now, a verse from our favorite song;

"It's a cool place and they say it gets colder

You're bundled up now, wait till you get older

But the meteor men beg to differ

Judging by the hole in the satellite picture"

- Allstar - Smash Mouth. 1999.

I know it doesn't really have anything to do with the topic, but it's beautifully put.

you are complaining that too many people are purchasing this $75 product and you really expect that Omicron would remove it...

My Eco Unfortunately, I haven't been able to quote for the longest time so hopefully this works. 

Firstly, I appreciate your detailed responses. I know where you're coming from with both points, but I see some flaws. I do agree that making gamble harder to access could fight the urge to actually gamble but this wouldn't be the best way. Loading up your 2FA app and putting in the code would only take 20-30 seconds, making it not much of an obstacle. If you'd want to make it harder to access you'd have to delay it by at least a minute or two before people start getting impatient, which would also annoy most of the regulars who visit gamble daily. I don't see how this method would be any different than a dialog box appearing asking "If you want to go to gamble, please note the risks, etc". (Which would also be pointless as it's easy to skip over).

Secondly, I'm completely aware that gambling is an addiction, no matter where the gambling is being used. But comparing my statement to "Why don't people that smoke just quit smoking?" is absurd. Comparing my statement to the AD's that are on the cigarette boxes that mention the effects that smoking has on an individual would be a bit more valid in my opinion, and those methods are still, obviously ineffective. I understand that someone who is addicted to gambling can't just stop, but adding a slight delay to their destination will not stop them. In the end, there isn't much that can be done to stop people from gambling, the solution begins with you. 

In all honesty the only outcome I could think of if this was implemented would be that the users who visit gamble regularly who enjoy gambling or just want a place to hangout (like myself) would obtain a huge inconvenience and deter them from visiting gamble, making it more inactive than it already is. I know that it has been stated that you can simply have the option to enable to 2FA, which I find would go against it's point. I don't really think someone would set that up in hopes that it would deter them from going to gamble or the duel arena, as most people don't even think they have an addiction.

I'm a little confused. How would this stop anyone from going to gamble or duel arena when all they have to do is go to the app and just get the code?

Also, I think it's very unnecessary. If you don't want to gamble/duel, just don't go there. 

Won Lolz I agree with everything you mentioned. And just to clarify, with the whole paying for the ranks, I was just trying to shed light on the whole situation, not trying to complain with how things are being done, sorry for the confusion. Although I haven't always agreed with being able to buy ranks, it does make sense since they now have money to pay back the scam victims as you mentioned.

Thank you.

 Here with a quick suggestion regarding the forum and tying it to the gambling scene. 

Since Otto took over the gambling rules, he implemented a system in buying the ranks, which is all fine and dandy, except that you can't purchase the General rank and is only obtained by being deemed very trustworthy and that starts from the Captain rank. My suggestion is to add a 'Vouch' section, where users can make their own vouch thread and players who have had previous exchanges with said user will leave their two cents. I suggest this because as of now, I'm assuming the only way for Otto or any other users to verify a user is trustworthy is to watch over them personally. The method I suggested would relieve a decent amount of the responsibility off of Otto and any other and help him get a feel of how the community feels about said user before handing them such an important rank.

 Of course, this section would not completely guarantee safety but it would be a nice step forward. In my opinion, it has more benefits than risk. 

Discussing some of the rules for the section would be nice as well, in this thread.

Cheers.