Pira

That is the most photoshopped picture i’ve ever seen in my life.
It should say [Admin]Flowers has achieved 99 in all skills.

bin scammed

 

Eyyy, finally! Glad to see you finally maxed @Flowers! 200M AFK next?

Jk! Grats on the milestone. :)

I wish that was a skill.

 

Congrats haha, now go for the monkey. 

 

 

Damn Congrats on your max Will you be aiming for monkey now?

I will not. What do you I look like to you? 

I would accept it if you can only see your own titles or have the ability to toggle the view of them. Even if these are considered decent alternatives, I still don't want to see them colored nor do I want to see long, generic titles. I've seen this suggestion added many times and I'm still leaning towards no support. 

 

Took me long enough

 

 

 

noted dragon bones throughout the wilderness from all dragons (except lava dragons)

 

hcim and classics can use vote books every 8 hours instead of 12.

 

a new small dz3 for extreme+ with a closer furnace, anvil, bank, range, gem rocks (this is not something i 100% want)

 

increased barrows points by 10%

1) Is there some sort of diary award like this on 07? It seems familiar. Neutral.

2) They're set to 12 hours to make the grind of HCIM and Classic difficult, no support.

3) Not necessary. Utilize the brand new DZ that has been created. This offers all of what you mentioned.

4) I could agree with barrows points being boosted per donator rank.

Hey guys, welcome to the Alora Newspaper 2018 edition. Hopefully everyone is having an awesome start of the year.

Enjoy reading the newest Alora Newspaper and have a great week! :)

 

The rule's book has been recently updated. Please acknowledge these changes:

 

Date & time of updated rule: 12/30/2017 8:06 PM GMT

Updated section: 11. Providing Fake Evidence

Time or date that the updated rule(s) will be put into effect: Immediately

Part(s) added, changed or removed: RED

 

The attempt to use of fake evidence is prohibited on Alora; This will result in a permanent ban from the community, both on the forums and in-game. This includes evidence submitted in a report, an appeal, or to defame a user in any section of the forums. 

Brief explanation (optional): Players who attempt to provide fake evidence (whether its a PM from a different server or just photoshopping something from Alora) will not be allowed in the community as it's almost certainly only used with malicious intent.

 

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Date & time of updated rule: 1/17/2018 7:55 AM GMT

Updated section:  1. Flaming, Disrespect, Harassment and Inappropriate Content

Time or date that the updated rule(s) will be put into effect: Immediately

Part(s) added, changed or removed: RED

 

• a. The use of inappropriate, slanderous and/or disrespectful language towards another’s race, belief system, mental health, ethics, or sexual orientation is not tolerated whatsoever. Although we have an effective ignore system, we expect our members to be courteous towards one another.

Brief explanation (optional): Any harassment towards a person's mental health will not be tolerated.

 

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Date & time of updated rule: 1/19/2018 12:42 AM UTC

Updated section:  3. Spamming

Time or date that the updated rule(s) will be put into effect: Immediately

Part(s) added, changed or removed: RED

 

Spamming on Alora is not allowed, as it causes disarray throughout the server. We aim to maintain a cordial, pleasant atmosphere on Alora. We expect our members to be respectful to one another. Failure to comply with this rule will result in a 24 hour mute, followed by a 48 hour mute, and finally, a permanent mute. If excessive enough, the wrongdoer can be given an IP-Mute, and, finally, a permanent ban will be put into effect if deemed necessary. If the content of the spam contains terribly inappropriate, derogatory, or offensive text, the wrongdoer will receive the latter.

 

• a. If a member acquires a donor status that has a fairly short yell cooldown timer, that does not give them the right to abuse it under any circumstances.

• b. An auto-typer is allowed via public chat. However, one must have at least 15 second intervals between each message with or without an auto-typer.

 

• c. Excessive begging for personal gain will not be tolerated on Alora. 

 

Brief explanation (optional): This is intended to combat players who are constantly begging for items/gp and acting as a nuisance to others. This rule may be edited to place it in a better category in the future if necessary. 

 

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Date & time of updated rule: 20.01.2018, 8:09 PM GMT

Updated section: 13.c

Time or date that the updated rule(s) will be put into effect: Immediately

Part(s) added, changed or removed: RED

 

Ragging is prohibited in the wilderness or ::edgepvp on Alora in its entirety as it negatively affects our PvP community as a whole and debases the dignity of PvP. Alora's definition of a ragger is one who consistently goes out of their way to disrupt someone's experience in the wilderness or ::edgepvp by attacking them repeatedly (staff discretion will be used when infracting someone for ragging). All ragging reports must be reported with sufficient video proof. First offenders will serve 5 hours in jail, followed by a 24 hour ban, with an ending result of a permanent ban.

Brief explanation (optional): This rule is changed to classify ragging more appropriately.

 

 

Keep up to date with our rules & full list can be found by clicking HERE!

The Updates that come out on 01/17/18 was huge! The following was added;

 

Dragon Slayer 2 Development
 
The next update will be more targeted, as it will mostly be Dragon Slayer II content, which was released just over a week ago on OSRS. We’d like to get this content into Alora as soon as possible, and have already gotten a decent amount of work done towards this. 

 
This content includes:

• Vorkath boss fight
• Myth’s guild
• New items such as:
  • Mythical cape
  • Wrath runes
  • Dragonbone necklace
  • Superior dragon bones
  • Ava’s assembler (with Vorkath’s head)
  • Skeletal visage / Dragonfire ward
  • Dragon crossbow / bolts
  • Dragon kite shield
  • Dragon platebody
• As well as content such as:
  • Surge spells
  • Wrath altar
  • Myth’s guild
  • Rune / Adamant dragons

• General updates:

  • Combat changes:
    • Fixed tricky combat bug:
      • If two players are fighting each other and are both red-barred (1hp), and player 1 attacks player 2 as player 2 is teleporting away, of course player 2 will not take damage, but if player 2 has vengeance active, they will not take any damage but player 1 will take the vengeance recoil, causing player 1 to die.
        • Recoils/vengeance on players who are in the process of teleporting will no longer work.
          • This also applies to phoenix necklace, barrows armour stat reducing effects, poison, etc. (will not work if the damage player is in the process of teleporting)
    • Risk protection changes:
      • Minimum risk amount to be able to attack anyone (regardless of their risk vs yours) is 2.5m gp (risked, meaning items kept on death do not count towards this 2.5m requirement).
        • This amount was previously 7.5m but we have lowered it as the risk protection system is mostly in place to prevent hardcore ragging with no risk, but a player with 2.5m risk should definitely be able to attack any player that they want to in the wilderness.
    • Dragon claw special attack buff:
      • The accuracy (chance of hitting on any 4 of the attacks) of the claws’ special attack has been considerably increased.
    • Armadyl godsword special attack buff:
      • The accuracy of the AGS special attack has been considerably increased.
    • Saradomin god sword special attack fix:
      • Previously, the special attack would not heal you or restore your prayer if you hit 0.
        • The special attack will now always heal at least 10 hitpoints and restore 5 prayer points (default if you hit less than 22 damage).
    • Fixed a bug with XP drops:
      • If you used a special attack weapon with 2 hits but 1 XP drop (eg. Dragon dagger special) and the first hit was a 0, the XP drop would not show until the next hitsplat. This has been patched.
    • PJ timer in Edgeville reduced:
      • ~5 second timer for most of wilderness  (unchanged)
      • ~8 second timer for Edgeville only (reduced by 2 seconds from 10 seconds)
    • Dragon spear special attack fixes:
      • Fix Dragon spear special attack retaliation:
        • If someone attacked you with a Dragon spear and you attacked them back, you would get skulled. This has been fixed and you will no longer be skulled upon retaliation.
      • Push direction:
        • The direction which the target is pushed into was incorrect. It should now push them in the opposite direction of the attacker.
  • Giant mole changes:
    • Glitch fix:
      • The mole would sometimes get stuck in a wall after digging underground. This should no longer occur.
    • Wyson the Gardener Mole skin/claws exchange rate:
      • As requested by the community, the exchange rate for mole skins/claws has been heavily boosted.
        • Previously:
          • 20 skins = 1 bird’s nest
          • 10 claws = 1 bird’s nest
        • Updated:
          • 3 skins = 1 bird’s nest
          • 2 claws = 1 bird’s nest
      • Increased chance to get a good nest (clue / god egg) from Wyson by nearly 30%.
      • FAQ:
        • Why not update to 1:1 as it is in OSRS?
          • On OSRS, the nests that are given by Wyson never contain Bird’s eggs or Clue scroll nests. On Alora, God eggs are a possibility making the nests from Wyson more valuable which means we need to adjust the rate a little bit.
            • If requested by players, we can remove the god egg / clue nests from Wyson and make it a 1:1 exchange, but keep in mind that these god eggs can allow you to obtain Evil chicken suit pieces which are relatively rare and tradable.
  • Crystal halberd imbuement:
    • Crystal halberd can now be imbued through an imbuement scroll.
      • The imbued version of the halberd provides the following benefits over the regular version:
        • +2 Strength bonus
        • +3 Prayer bonus
    • The Crystal halberd (i) can no longer be purchased from the Slayer reward shop.
  • New QOL commands:
    • ::hs <name>
      • Will take you directly to a player’s hiscores page
        • You can still type the command normally (::hs, ::highscores, ::hiscores) to be taken to the main page if you do not want to input a specific player’s name.
    • Staff commands:
      • (See below)
  • Slayer changes:
    • Slayer fixes:
      • Baby blue dragons now count towards Blue dragon Slayer tasks. 
      • Baby red dragons now count towards Red dragon Slayer tasks.
      • You can no longer receive Superior slayer encounters in the Grotesque Guardian instances (they could appear after killing Dawn or Dusk which is not intended).
    • New tasks:
      • Barrows brothers can now be assigned as a Hard slayer task (18-64 assigned)
        • Each brother killed counts towards this task, rather than each chest opened.
  • Gem rock mining buff:
    • Gem rocks now last 3x as long before running out of ore.
    • Gem rocks will now give Opals/Jades far less often.
      • Gem rocks will now give all other gems more commonly to make up for the reduction in Opals/Jades.
  • Quality of Life abbreviations:
    • To make searching for items/NPCs easier, we’ve added the following abbreviations:
      • NPC drop searching:
        • Mole = Giant mole
        • Zam (as well as the previously accepted “Zamorak/zammy”) = K’ril Trutsaroth
      • Trading post item searching:
        • Gmaul = Granite maul
        • Tsotd = Toxic staff of the dead
        • AGS = Armadyl godsword
        • SGS = Saradomin godsword
        • ZGS = Zamorak godsword
        • BGS = Bandos godsword
        • ACB = Armadyl crossbow
        • BCP = Bandos chestplate
        • DFS = Dragonfire shield
  • F2P Shop update:
    • Pizza has been added to the F2P shop (only the non-ironman version of the shop).
  • Barbarian assault icons are now tradable.
    • Includes: Attacker, Collector, Defender and Healer icons
  • Lunar spell book update: Flax Spin spell:
    • The flax spin spell is now functional!
      • You must have a Magic level of 76 to perform this spell.
      • Up to 5 flax will be turned into bowstrings upon casting this spell. If you have less in your inventory, it will spin as many as you have.
  • Edgeville PvP added:
    • You can now fight other players in the Edgeville PvP area!
      • You can reach this area by typing ::edgepvp or using the Teleport wizard and clicking on the PvP teleports (will place you inside the bank)
      • Features:
        • There are no targets here.
        • There is no risk protection here.
        • The only safe-zone here is within the bank.
        • You can attack any other player who’s level is within 15 of your own.
        • You can still receive PKPoints for killing other players here.
        • The map is classic Edgeville (without the home area’s custom edits)
          • The only differences here being that the Well of Goodwill, as well as a tree north of the bank have both been removed.
          • The wilderness ditch, as well as the trapdoors around the map have all been disabled.
            • With that being said, ladders around Edgeville can still be used.
  • ::skull/::skullme commands added:
    • These commands, as the title intends, will skull you if you type them into your chatbox. You will be first shown an “Are you sure you wish to do this?” confirmation dialogue with a yes/no option before skulling.
  • Cleaning cloth is now available:
    • Use this item on any imbued items (eg. Berserker ring (i)) to unimbue them. Keep in mind you will not get back the imbuement scroll! Same goes for any painted items (eg. Green Dark bow), you will not get the pain back.
    • How to obtain:
      • Regular/Ironmen/classic can both purchase this item from their respective General/Supply shops.
    • Example items:
      • Fremennik rings
      • Crystal halberd, Granite ring, Salve amulet, Slayer staff, Wilderness rings, etc
      • Ornamented items (eg. Dragon defender, Occult necklace, Dark bows, etc)

  Bug fixes / miscellaneous updates:

  • Banking fix if bank is full:
    • Previously, if your bank was full, you could not deposit more of items that you already have in your bank. You can now deposit existing items without the error message.
  • Ring of Life / Defence skullcap fix:
    • A major bug with these items caused them to teleport you home instantly when attacked, even with high hitpoints. This has been fixed and the items should operate as intended.
  • Event manager rank collars changed on the forums and in-game.
  • Christmas event + Giveaway have been removed:
    • Christmas mesh net / barrel bomb have been removed.
      • Unfortunately the mesh net was a temporary item and OSRS has removed it from their cache.
        • Anyone holding these items from the Christmas event will now be holding a piece of cabbage instead.
  • Fletching bug fixed:
    • Fixed a bug that allowed you to fletch very quickly.
  • Godwars dungeon aggression distance:
    • Minions within the boss chambers would often ignore players and not attack them after a certain distance.
      • All minions within these chambers will now be aggressive throughout the whole room and attack any players who are within the room.
        • This also applies to instanced rooms.
  • Raids changes:
    • Muttadile healing has been nerfed:
      • Mostly intended to make solo raids easier, Muttadiles will now heal less HP and have less time to heal.
        • With this change, Muttadiles also heal slightly less on team raids, but it will likely not be as noticeable.
  • Killtime record fix:
    • A bug when determining whether your fight with a boss was a team fight or a solo fight has been fix.
      • Previously, if the boss hit you first and you had Vengeance or a Ring of recoil on, the recoil or veng would be the first thing to damage the boss, meaning your kill time would not count as a solo record and would not be logged. This has been fixed, and recoil/veng will no longer mess up your kill times.
  • Boss failed retaliation bug:
    • Sometimes, certain bosses would cease to attack players whatsoever (eg. Bandos, Giant mole, etc).
      • I believe that this bug has now been patched, but since it is difficult to reproduce, there is a possibility that the fix did not work. In this case, please re-report this bug and I will look into it further. 
  • Item changes:
    • Wise old man’s santa hat is now tradable.
    • Santa suit (regular) is now tradable.
    • Iban’s staff now requires 50 Attack and 50 Magic to wield.
    • Pharaoh’s sceptre can now be claimed by ironmen/classic from their collection boxes.
  • Demonic gorilla fixes:
    • Demonic gorillas safe spots have been patched.
    • They can no longer switch prayers as quickly as they could before. The delay between their prayer switches has been doubled to make them easier to fight.
  • Item TP values fixed:
    • Strength potions (1-4)
    • Imbued Fremennik rings (Berserker, Warriors, Seers, Archer) now all have a proper item value.
  • Prayer fix:
    • A bug with prayer which could be exploited through Banshees and other prayer-reducing NPCs has been patched (negative/unlimited prayer).
  • ::watchbr bug:
    • Fixed a bug where you could ::watchbr from an instance (eg. Kraken room) and then when you stopped watching you’d be in someone else’s instance.

  Staff updates:

  • UUID banning:
    • Staff members will now be able to ban problematic players with a more secure method, through their computer’s UUID. This cannot be easily changed the way as a MAC address can and is unique to your computer using the serial number of your BIOS chip.
      • Commands:
        • ::uuidban / ::muuidban (manual)
        • ::liftuuidban or ::removeuuidban or ::unuuidban
        • ::getuuid
        • UUID will also now show/link players on usage of ::ru (For Global moderator+)
    • The staffCP has also been updated to allow viewing/searching of UUIDs in logs.
  • Punishment note system:
    • Staff members can now leave notes on bans/mutes/jails/mutes/ipmutes/etc.
      • When handing out a punishment, the staff member will be asked if they’d like to leave a note for future reference and for other staff to see. 
      • (See below for command)
  • New staff commands:
    • ::scp <name>
      • Will open a player’s staff CP page
        • You can type ::scp without a username to be taken to the main panel to manually search.
    • ::logs <name>
      • Will open a player’s log history
        • You can type ::logs without a username to be taken to the global logs page.
    • ::punishments or ::punish <name>
      • Will open an interface showing all of the player’s current/previous punishments, as well as any notes left by the staff member who punished them.
        • Note: Pay attention to the names on the list, if you search for “Omi”, punishments for both “Omicron” and “Omipure”), for example, could show up.

  Forum updates:

  • @Mention button added on every post near the edit/report/quote buttons.
    • Clicking this button will automatically add @Username into the post reply box, and will also scroll you down to the bottom of the topic where the reply box is making it convenient in longer topics.
  • Shoutbox rejuvenation:
    • Using @[name] within the shoutbox will now properly format usernames with group colours and add a link to their profile.
    • Tiny profile pictures now appear next to usernames in the shout box. 
    • BBCode is now allowed in the shoutbox. Examples:
      • Using for bold text
      • Using for italic text
      • Using for URLs
      • Using for coloured text backgrounds
      • Using [color=blue] for coloured text
      • Using to use specific fonts
      • … and many more!

  Master Donator Rank

  • The Master Donator (rainbow) rank is now available!
    • This is the most prestigious rank on Alora, with unique benefits not available to any of the other donator classes.
      • Any player who has opened 500 or more bonds or donated in excess of $5000 will be granted this rank! This makes it a highly elusive rank which will likely not be seen often.
    • Forum effect:
      • One of the most notable features of the Master donator is the color-changing effect of the username as well as the post background to match the color of the website.
    • Standard benefits (upgraded versions of the lower donator rank benefits:
      • All Uber (and below) donator benefits mostly one-upped, including:
        • 35% chance of rare loot from Clue scrolls
        • Raids benefits:
          • 30% chance of extra loot in Raids
            • Possibility of 6 rewards
          • 7.5% points lost on death in Raids
        • 12% boosted drop rate on all rare loot
        • 20% increased clue bottle/bird’s next chance
        • 50% PKP bonus
        • 30% Instance cost reduction
        • 32% Bloody chest rare loot chance increase
        • Inferno start wave raised to 45
        • Maximum of 9 planks can be made with Plank make spell
        • …and every other Uber benefit!
    • Unique benefits:
      • Stray dog pet
        • Only available for Master donators, this unique pet can be purchase from Probita!
          • You can even shoo-away your stray dog! Don’t worry, he won’t run off, though.
      • Cost-free skin colors:
        • Master donators do not have to pay to set/change their skin colors through the Donation manager.
      • Dragon skin color:
        • Also exclusive to holders of this rank, a new deep-red skin color is now available! As with other skin colors, this color will be free to obtain. Speak to the Donation Manager to set your skin color to Dragon.
      • Possibility of 6 items from Raids
      • Vote book bonus experience lasts 30 minutes longer (1:30 instead of 1 hour) as well as giving 10 extra vote points (does not stack with vote bonus on weekends)

You can find more information about our recent updates by clicking HERE!

 

Many thanks to @Omicron for these spectacular updates!

 

Over the past couple of weeks there have been some coming and goings. The following changes have been made to the team. I'm sure you'll all join me in welcoming the new members to the team as well as thanking past staff members for their efforts.

 

Staff update as of January 8th & 17th, 2018:

 

Promotions:

Lord of Rats has returned as Server Moderator.

Savitr has been promoted to Server Support.

Mewtwo has been promoted to Administrator.
Xuf has been promoted to Global Moderator.
HC Proxy has been promoted to Server Moderator.
Hondenei has been promoted to Server Moderator.
king purple has been promoted to Server Support.

 

Resignations:

Ryuu has temp. resigned from Server Moderator due to personal matters.

Classic Hxza has resigned from Server Support due to personal matters.

 
Demotions:
None.

 

Congrats to everyone promoted and best of luck to those gone.

 

All staff updates can be found HERE.

 

This week I've decided to Interview 2 staff members from the community I hope you guys enjoy what they had to say!

 

 

The first person I interview is Classic dew!

 

 

Greetings.

 

Diva: What is your best childhood memory?

 

Classic dew: In 8th grade I ran the 800m at state and finished first place shortly before passing out and getting a concussion. It was 100% a great memory.

 

Diva: Who do you most admire in life?

 

Classic dew: I most admire Jeff Cavaliere who is a physical therapist and strength training coach that puts out a lot of science based exercises to help the masses for free.

 

Diva: What is your strongest personal quality?

 

Classic dew: Optimism. No matter what happens I can always find a bright side to things and find a way to enjoy whatever I am doing.

 

Diva: If you were president, what is the first thing you would do?

 

Classic dew: Build the Mexican border wall (in certain locations) to help reduce illegal immigration and send as many illegal immigrants as possible/I would also decrease exports since we produce an adequate amount of food and other resources to sustain ourselves.

 

Diva: What is a skill you'd like to learn and why?

 

Classic dew: I would like to learn the skills of being a blacksmith. I already enjoy melting things down and making ingots of different materials in a home-made forge. I think that having the ability to make your own weapons would be incredibly important in the event of a loss in power, or zombie apocalypse. With the fact that my wife speaks multiple languages, does pottery, is a seamstress, and I am going into medicine, I feel that we would be set up to strive in any environment no matter the circumstances.

 

Diva:  If you could witness any event of the past, present, or future, what would it be?

 

Classic dew:  I would like to witness any of the battles of either world war. The fighting and tactics used along with the miserable conditions all sides endured is insane and I would simply like to meet and talk to any of the soldiers who had the mental stamina to withstand what they saw and went through.

 

Diva: What’s the best thing that happened to you last week?

 

Classic dew: Last week I got confirmation that my paperwork will be going through to finally start physical therapy for my shoulder, which I injured over 8 months ago. I have been in immense pain since I injured my shoulder, and it was the injury that lead to me joining Alora (Small miracles). Either way I can’t wait to strengthen my shoulder to the point it no longer dislocates or has a subluxation issue while walking down stairs or running.

 

Diva:  What were you like in high school?

 
Classic dew: I was just like I am now, but with less patience, and slightly less respect for others. I was also very thin, but very athletic. I ran track, played American football, and played soccer.

 
Diva: If you had to change your name, what would your new name be, and why would you choose that name?
 
Classic dew: Jameson Winners. Why not? I like Jameson and I am always a winner.
 
Diva: Lastly, what are your plans for 2018?
 
Classic dew: I intend to get all 200ms in classic, rehab my shoulder so I can get into great shape again, get into shape to participate in a body building competition, get accepted into a good Physician Assistant school down south, hit 7 years in the US Army, knit 3 scarves, and graduate with my bachelors with a 3.8+ GPA.

 

 

Thank you for your wonderful talk, Classic dew.

 

 

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Next on our list is Endeavor!
 
 
Greetings.
 
Diva: What is a skill you'd like to learn and why?
 
Endeavor: Learning multiple languages. I've always been interesting in learning new languages but it's like my brain shuts off. I can comprehend the information as I read it but my problem lies with retaining it. A couple of languages I'd like to learn and become fluent in is French, Spanish and Japanese. I think it'd be a great ability and would even love to use it during travels.

Diva: What’s the best thing that happened to you last week?
 
Endeavor: Just a few days ago actually, I received a paper in the mail stating I am officially debt free! That's so exciting for me considering how long I've been paying towards them and how often my state taxes were taken from me to pay them off. Good riddance, debt! So so happy for that!

Diva: If you had to change your name, what would your new name be, and why would you choose that name?
 
Endeavor: Oddly enough, I have thought about this before. I don't know why but I have. If I were to change my name to be anything other than Brandon, it would probably be Vincent. I chose Vincent for my son's name because it has a decent amount of nicknames and to me, it's a fairly strong name in general. Since my son's name is Vincent, my next choice is Anthony. No idea why. 

Diva: If you could witness any event of the past, present, or future, what would it be?

Endeavor: I honestly don't know. If I go in the past, I'll probably alter an event and make the present worse. If I go into the future, I might witness something horrible I have to expect at any given time. I'm completely content being where I am presently. If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. 

Diva:  What were you like in high school?

 

Endeavor: I was definitely the class clown and class sleeper not that I'm proud it. I was initiated as a freshman by a group of seniors. They came over to my house at 5 in the morning and made me put on a clown costume, shoes and clown makeup. Not only was it embarrassing, my family knew about it and let it happen. When I go to school that morning, there was only 10 or so students throughout the entire school that were chosen to be inintiated. Long story short, nobody was surprised and I left school during 3rd period. LOL. A typical day for me in high school was hearing my name being called to the Principal's office for who knows what reason. Still managed to snag a 3.0+ GPA (could be better - I know) even though I didn't participate in HS as much as I should have.
 
Diva: What is your strongest personal quality?
 
Endeavor: My strongest quality is being willing to take a punch from anyone and still treat them with dignity. I've always cared about the good in everyone and strayed away from the bad. My mom used to tell me a smile could change a person's life without even knowing it. I'm not one that can become easily frustrated or angry so 99% of the time, I'm smiling. I carry that with me everywhere I go. 

 
Diva: If you were president, what is the first thing you would do?
 
Endeavor: If I were president, I'd reduce interest and tax on school loans and provide everyone free two year degrees (Associates) with a variety of payment methods to make their lives easy during schooling and shortly thereafter.
 
Diva: Who do you most admire in life?
 
Endeavor: My kids. There's no doubt about it. I feel like my advice is great and useful but I've learned so much from being a parent and raising my children. They are well-behaved and the best manners. I wouldn't have it any other way.
 
Diva:  What is your best childhood memory?
 
Endeavor: My best childhood memory was when I was 11 and my family moved out of the city onto a 40-acre plot of land to tend to my grandpa's farm after he passed away. That same year, my stepdad bought my older brother and I our very first dirt bikes. Our stepdad made a dirt track for us and my love for bikes started from there. I miss those good ol' days since we ended up selling grandpa's land along with ours to the DNR for wildlife conservation. No regrets whatsoever.
 

Diva: Lastly, what are your plans for 2018?

 

Endeavor: One of the hardest goals of this year I chose to tackle was reducing the amount of sugar and caffeine I consume. I do still drink SOME caffeine but the amount I reduced is phenomenal. The first week or two I was suffering from massive and nasty headaches but that part seems to be over with. I didn't realize how much a sugar "detox" of sorts can be so horrible. It does feel good. I also quit smoking last year so with sugar and quitting smoking, food tastes better so that's a win-win right there!
 

Thanks Endeavor for the interview!
 

 

 

Disclaimer:

Have any interview questions you would like to ask any of the staff members?

Don't hesitate to send me a private message via forums/discord and I'll include them in next edition along with the answers from that staff member!

 

 

 

The MOTM poll has concluded and here are the final results received from the community.

The 3 top winners have been picked and the final voting has taken place among the staff team.

 

The very final winner of January MOTM is....

 

Salter

 

 

Congratulations @Salter! Your outstanding work and helpfulness among the community has been noticed & appreciated by many. We would like to sincerely thank you for your efforts and hope you enjoy your prize. :)

Contact Lowkey for your 3 bonds prize in-game.

 

Stay tuned till the next month when the next voting takes place!

 

The January Community awards are happening now!

Visit this link to vote for your favorites;

http://www.alora.io/...mmunity-awards/

 

Voting ends on 25th of January. Good luck to everybody!

 

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That concludes the end of this newspaper! If you have any feedback/suggestions, don't hesitate to comment / contact me!

Read our last newspaper by clicking HERE!

thank you for viewing a suggestion thats been talked about by a few people.

 

group ironman mode?

 

a new game mode with the ability to choose up to 3 friends (4 people total) to join you embark on a new adventure in alora, all the normal ironman restrictions.

 

what to expect in the group ironman mode?

 

a very lot of fun competing with other group ironmen for the race to rank 1 high-scores or even just to race to show off your achievements. 

 

a new highscores for group ironmen so the highscores main page be sorted by the groups total. so if the rank 1 team was 2 people both 2000 total, then the "Total Level" for that group would be 4000.

 

once you create your account and choose group ironman mode you will be prompted to join or create a clan chat which will be your group with a maximum of 4 people. your clan chat name will be your name on the high-scores.

 

your bank is still your own but a shared chest located somewhere in edgeville where you can share duplicated items or resources you no longer need from getting 99 stats. 

 

experience rates would be x8 skilling x8 combat (can be discussed)

 

in your clan chat you have the ability to kick people from your group for whatever reason necessary, you have up to 2 weeks to decide on your team before its permanently locked and once you kick somebody you cannot get a 2nd, 3rd, 4th person in. 

 

why would people in alora want this to happen?

 

it brings more challenges to alora, it would bring a very fun and exciting game mode even though ironman isnt for everybody. group ironman is something for everybody, those who hate the solo challenges, those who hate to solo pvm, solo skill. your friends will always be there wanting to put effort in to get your team to the top.

 

 

 

 

this thread is open to suggestions, so please feel free to comment what you think!

 

thanks @Flipper for the suggestion.

 

 

 

 

(i am aware of all the grammatical errors and will be working on them shortly)

Hi,

 

Regarding the Commander Zilyana "glitch", I'd like to have it fixed. The glitch has been since the beginning of the Alora release (1 year+ old).

It's getting annoying when you can't even range Commander Zilyana at a certain distance because you'll get fucked up by Commander Zilyana's "glitch" (it hits 20-35's each 1-2 second when not in melee distance). Even when you kill Commander ZIlyana and it (spawns random on a spot) you'll get hit by a 35.

 

I know Omicron has more things to fix but this has been since the release, getting annoyed when you use a full inventory of food for 10 kills max, should be plenty more compared to Oldschool Runescape.

When I had my Commander Zilyana task like an hour ago, I went to it and like 4 people were camping it with melee, so I decided to go with range so they'll eventually suicide by the glitch, even though this is "harrassement", would like to see this fixed.

 

Long story short: Fix Commander ZIlyana's style. It should walk to you when you're far away from her ranging it.

 

 

ty

 

YOU SIMPLY CAN't EVEN RANGE ZILYANA FROM A DISTANCE??

 

 

 

Can someone please explain to me why the hell traps are so bugged?

 

This should've been suggested long ago. I can't do hunter for the simple fact that if I put down a trap, and it doesn't catch an animal immediately; the trap gets disabled and I have to re-do it. I'm not talking about 30 seconds after I put down the trap; I mean not even 5 seconds and it's gone. 

 

Can this please be fixed so I can actually get 99 hunter? 

 

 

Often times when trying to list items on the trading post, the first thing people will check is how much the item is currently going for, or what it typically goes for. However, often times (specifically in Classic mode) players will find that there are no other items, or that the only item on the trading post is listed at a much higher than normal price. This makes listing the item at a fair price more difficult.

 

If we were able to search for a specific item's history we would be able to more accurately price our items on the trading post. The history should only be for the past week and for the past 10-15 transactions, in order to prevent too much data from being stored. The history should show the price of the item that was bought, and at what time the item was bought. Not only would this make trading through the trading post more efficient and user friendly, it would diminish the need for price guides, and allow newer players to get a feel for the economy much more easily without having to regularly ask for price checks.

 

I'd appreciate your thoughts on this addition, thank you for reading.

Hey guys,

Back with another exciting staff update.

Mewtwo has been promoted to Administrator.
Xuf has been promoted to Global Moderator.
HC Proxy has been promoted to Server Moderator.
Hondenei has been promoted to Server Moderator.
king purple has been promoted to Server Support.

I would like to personally thank Mewtwo for being here from the very start of Alora and constantly putting in work for not only myself but for everyone on the staff team. No doubt in my mind that he will continue to do what he's been doing for over a year and excell at this position.

Congratulations on your promotion brother. Firm handshakes.

Lowkey
Alora Administration Team

Hello everyone,
 
First and foremost I’d like to apologize for the lack of updates recently. This was due to a combination of spending the holidays with family and being busier IRL than usual, but I’m getting back into it full swing. 
 
I’ve been hammering out the to-do list the past few weeks and have made huge progress on existing bugs / suggestions that the community has made. This update includes much of that work, but it is what I’d label as a general update to target many different types of content as well as bugs.
 
Dragon Slayer 2 Development
 
The next update will be more targeted, as it will mostly be Dragon Slayer II content, which was released just over a week ago on OSRS. We’d like to get this content into Alora as soon as possible, and have already gotten a decent amount of work done towards this. 
 
This content includes:

• Vorkath boss fight
• Myth’s guild
• New items such as:
  • Mythical cape
  • Wrath runes
  • Dragonbone necklace
  • Superior dragon bones
  • Ava’s assembler (with Vorkath’s head)
  • Skeletal visage / Dragonfire ward
  • Dragon crossbow / bolts
  • Dragon kite shield
  • Dragon platebody
• As well as content such as:
  • Surge spells
  • Wrath altar
  • Myth’s guild
  • Rune / Adamant dragons

As you can see, it is quite a large update, so there is plenty of new content for us to work with, and a lot to look forward to!
 
We thought this was the perfect time to take a bit of a different approach and add a new quest to Alora rather than simply adding the content. Doing this, of course, takes slightly longer to do than simply releasing the Vorkath boss fight, the Rune/Adamant dragons and the Myth’s guild, but we believe it will be more enjoyable this way, and we’ll be simultaneously fulfilling the many suggestions received for a brand new quest. It won’t be identical to OSRS’ version for obvious reasons, but we’ll do our best to make it just as entertaining :)
 
We’re aiming to have this done within the next 10-14 days if possible.
 
In the meantime, enjoy this update and keep an eye out on progress in the near future! Here’s a quick sneak peak of what to expect for the next update :)

 
 
 
 
 
General updates:

• Combat changes:
  • Fixed tricky combat bug:
    • If two players are fighting each other and are both red-barred (1hp), and player 1 attacks player 2 as player 2 is teleporting away, of course player 2 will not take damage, but if player 2 has vengeance active, they will not take any damage but player 1 will take the vengeance recoil, causing player 1 to die.
      • Recoils/vengeance on players who are in the process of teleporting will no longer work.
        • This also applies to phoenix necklace, barrows armour stat reducing effects, poison, etc. (will not work if the damage player is in the process of teleporting)
  • Risk protection changes:
    • Minimum risk amount to be able to attack anyone (regardless of their risk vs yours) is 2.5m gp (risked, meaning items kept on death do not count towards this 2.5m requirement).
      • This amount was previously 7.5m but we have lowered it as the risk protection system is mostly in place to prevent hardcore ragging with no risk, but a player with 2.5m risk should definitely be able to attack any player that they want to in the wilderness.
  • Dragon claw special attack buff:
    • The accuracy (chance of hitting on any 4 of the attacks) of the claws’ special attack has been considerably increased.
  • Armadyl godsword special attack buff:
    • The accuracy of the AGS special attack has been considerably increased.
  • Saradomin god sword special attack fix:
    • Previously, the special attack would not heal you or restore your prayer if you hit 0.
      • The special attack will now always heal at least 10 hitpoints and restore 5 prayer points (default if you hit less than 22 damage).
  • Fixed a bug with XP drops:
    • If you used a special attack weapon with 2 hits but 1 XP drop (eg. Dragon dagger special) and the first hit was a 0, the XP drop would not show until the next hitsplat. This has been patched.
  • PJ timer in Edgeville reduced:
    • ~5 second timer for most of wilderness  (unchanged)
    • ~8 second timer for Edgeville only (reduced by 2 seconds from 10 seconds)
  • Dragon spear special attack fixes:
    • Fix Dragon spear special attack retaliation:
      • If someone attacked you with a Dragon spear and you attacked them back, you would get skulled. This has been fixed and you will no longer be skulled upon retaliation.
    • Push direction:
      • The direction which the target is pushed into was incorrect. It should now push them in the opposite direction of the attacker.
• Giant mole changes:
  • Glitch fix:
    • The mole would sometimes get stuck in a wall after digging underground. This should no longer occur.
  • Wyson the Gardener Mole skin/claws exchange rate:
    • As requested by the community, the exchange rate for mole skins/claws has been heavily boosted.
      • Previously:
        • 20 skins = 1 bird’s nest
        • 10 claws = 1 bird’s nest
      • Updated:
        • 3 skins = 1 bird’s nest
        • 2 claws = 1 bird’s nest
    • Increased chance to get a good nest (clue / god egg) from Wyson by nearly 30%.
    • FAQ:
      • Why not update to 1:1 as it is in OSRS?
        • On OSRS, the nests that are given by Wyson never contain Bird’s eggs or Clue scroll nests. On Alora, God eggs are a possibility making the nests from Wyson more valuable which means we need to adjust the rate a little bit.
          • If requested by players, we can remove the god egg / clue nests from Wyson and make it a 1:1 exchange, but keep in mind that these god eggs can allow you to obtain Evil chicken suit pieces which are relatively rare and tradable.
• Crystal halberd imbuement:
  • Crystal halberd can now be imbued through an imbuement scroll.
    • The imbued version of the halberd provides the following benefits over the regular version:
      • +2 Strength bonus
      • +3 Prayer bonus
  • The Crystal halberd (i) can no longer be purchased from the Slayer reward shop.
• New QOL commands:
  • ::hs <name>
    • Will take you directly to a player’s hiscores page
      • You can still type the command normally (::hs, ::highscores, ::hiscores) to be taken to the main page if you do not want to input a specific player’s name.
  • Staff commands:
    • (See below)
• Slayer changes:
  • Slayer fixes:
    • Baby blue dragons now count towards Blue dragon Slayer tasks. 
    • Baby red dragons now count towards Red dragon Slayer tasks.
    • You can no longer receive Superior slayer encounters in the Grotesque Guardian instances (they could appear after killing Dawn or Dusk which is not intended).
  • New tasks:
    • Barrows brothers can now be assigned as a Hard slayer task (18-64 assigned)
      • Each brother killed counts towards this task, rather than each chest opened.
• Gem rock mining buff:
  • Gem rocks now last 3x as long before running out of ore.
  • Gem rocks will now give Opals/Jades far less often.
    • Gem rocks will now give all other gems more commonly to make up for the reduction in Opals/Jades.
• Quality of Life abbreviations:
  • To make searching for items/NPCs easier, we’ve added the following abbreviations:
    • NPC drop searching:
      • Mole = Giant mole
      • Zam (as well as the previously accepted “Zamorak/zammy”) = K’ril Trutsaroth
    • Trading post item searching:
      • Gmaul = Granite maul
      • Tsotd = Toxic staff of the dead
      • AGS = Armadyl godsword
      • SGS = Saradomin godsword
      • ZGS = Zamorak godsword
      • BGS = Bandos godsword
      • ACB = Armadyl crossbow
      • BCP = Bandos chestplate
      • DFS = Dragonfire shield
• F2P Shop update:
  • Pizza has been added to the F2P shop (only the non-ironman version of the shop).
• Barbarian assault icons are now tradable.
  • Includes: Attacker, Collector, Defender and Healer icons
• Lunar spell book update: Flax Spin spell:
  • The flax spin spell is now functional!
    • You must have a Magic level of 76 to perform this spell.
    • Up to 5 flax will be turned into bowstrings upon casting this spell. If you have less in your inventory, it will spin as many as you have.
• Edgeville PvP added:
  • You can now fight other players in the Edgeville PvP area!
    • You can reach this area by typing ::edgepvp or using the Teleport wizard and clicking on the PvP teleports (will place you inside the bank)
    • Features:
      • There are no targets here.
      • There is no risk protection here.
      • The only safe-zone here is within the bank.
      • You can attack any other player who’s level is within 15 of your own.
      • You can still receive PKPoints for killing other players here.
      • The map is classic Edgeville (without the home area’s custom edits)
        • The only differences here being that the Well of Goodwill, as well as a tree north of the bank have both been removed.
        • The wilderness ditch, as well as the trapdoors around the map have all been disabled.
          • With that being said, ladders around Edgeville can still be used.
• ::skull/::skullme commands added:
  • These commands, as the title intends, will skull you if you type them into your chatbox. You will be first shown an “Are you sure you wish to do this?” confirmation dialogue with a yes/no option before skulling.
• Cleaning cloth is now available:
  • Use this item on any imbued items (eg. Berserker ring (i)) to unimbue them. Keep in mind you will not get back the imbuement scroll! Same goes for any painted items (eg. Green Dark bow), you will not get the pain back.
  • How to obtain:
    • Regular/Ironmen/classic can both purchase this item from their respective General/Supply shops.
  • Example items:
    • Fremennik rings
    • Crystal halberd, Granite ring, Salve amulet, Slayer staff, Wilderness rings, etc
    • Ornamented items (eg. Dragon defender, Occult necklace, Dark bows, etc)

Bug fixes / miscellaneous updates:

• Banking fix if bank is full:
  • Previously, if your bank was full, you could not deposit more of items that you already have in your bank. You can now deposit existing items without the error message.
• Ring of Life / Defence skullcap fix:
  • A major bug with these items caused them to teleport you home instantly when attacked, even with high hitpoints. This has been fixed and the items should operate as intended.
• Event manager rank collars changed on the forums and in-game.
• Christmas event + Giveaway have been removed:
  • Christmas mesh net / barrel bomb have been removed.
    • Unfortunately the mesh net was a temporary item and OSRS has removed it from their cache.
      • Anyone holding these items from the Christmas event will now be holding a piece of cabbage instead.
• Fletching bug fixed:
  • Fixed a bug that allowed you to fletch very quickly.
• Godwars dungeon aggression distance:
  • Minions within the boss chambers would often ignore players and not attack them after a certain distance.
    • All minions within these chambers will now be aggressive throughout the whole room and attack any players who are within the room.
      • This also applies to instanced rooms.
• Raids changes:
  • Muttadile healing has been nerfed:
    • Mostly intended to make solo raids easier, Muttadiles will now heal less HP and have less time to heal.
      • With this change, Muttadiles also heal slightly less on team raids, but it will likely not be as noticeable.
• Killtime record fix:
  • A bug when determining whether your fight with a boss was a team fight or a solo fight has been fix.
    • Previously, if the boss hit you first and you had Vengeance or a Ring of recoil on, the recoil or veng would be the first thing to damage the boss, meaning your kill time would not count as a solo record and would not be logged. This has been fixed, and recoil/veng will no longer mess up your kill times.
• Boss failed retaliation bug:
  • Sometimes, certain bosses would cease to attack players whatsoever (eg. Bandos, Giant mole, etc).
    • I believe that this bug has now been patched, but since it is difficult to reproduce, there is a possibility that the fix did not work. In this case, please re-report this bug and I will look into it further. 
• Item changes:
  • Wise old man’s santa hat is now tradable.
  • Santa suit (regular) is now tradable.
  • Iban’s staff now requires 50 Attack and 50 Magic to wield.
  • Pharaoh’s sceptre can now be claimed by ironmen/classic from their collection boxes.
• Demonic gorilla fixes:
  • Demonic gorillas safe spots have been patched.
  • They can no longer switch prayers as quickly as they could before. The delay between their prayer switches has been doubled to make them easier to fight.
• Item TP values fixed:
  • Strength potions (1-4)
  • Imbued Fremennik rings (Berserker, Warriors, Seers, Archer) now all have a proper item value.
• Prayer fix:
  • A bug with prayer which could be exploited through Banshees and other prayer-reducing NPCs has been patched (negative/unlimited prayer).
• ::watchbr bug:
  • Fixed a bug where you could ::watchbr from an instance (eg. Kraken room) and then when you stopped watching you’d be in someone else’s instance.

Staff updates:

• UUID banning:
  • Staff members will now be able to ban problematic players with a more secure method, through their computer’s UUID. This cannot be easily changed the way as a MAC address can and is unique to your computer using the serial number of your BIOS chip.
    • Commands:
      • ::uuidban / ::muuidban (manual)
      • ::liftuuidban or ::removeuuidban or ::unuuidban
      • ::getuuid
      • UUID will also now show/link players on usage of ::ru (For Global moderator+)
  • The staffCP has also been updated to allow viewing/searching of UUIDs in logs.
• Punishment note system:
  • Staff members can now leave notes on bans/mutes/jails/mutes/ipmutes/etc.
    • When handing out a punishment, the staff member will be asked if they’d like to leave a note for future reference and for other staff to see. 
    • (See below for command)
• New staff commands:
  • ::scp <name>
    • Will open a player’s staff CP page
      • You can type ::scp without a username to be taken to the main panel to manually search.
  • ::logs <name>
    • Will open a player’s log history
      • You can type ::logs without a username to be taken to the global logs page.
  • ::punishments or ::punish <name>
    • Will open an interface showing all of the player’s current/previous punishments, as well as any notes left by the staff member who punished them.
      • Note: Pay attention to the names on the list, if you search for “Omi”, punishments for both “Omicron” and “Omipure”), for example, could show up.

Forum updates:

• @Mention button added on every post near the edit/report/quote buttons.
  • Clicking this button will automatically add @Username into the post reply box, and will also scroll you down to the bottom of the topic where the reply box is making it convenient in longer topics.
• Shoutbox rejuvenation:
  • Using @[name] within the shoutbox will now properly format usernames with group colours and add a link to their profile.
  • Tiny profile pictures now appear next to usernames in the shout box. 
  • BBCode is now allowed in the shoutbox. Examples:
    • Using for bold text
    • Using for italic text
    • Using for URLs
    • Using for coloured text backgrounds
    • Using [color=blue] for coloured text
    • Using to use specific fonts
    • … and many more!

Master Donator Rank

• The Master Donator (rainbow) rank is now available!
  • This is the most prestigious rank on Alora, with unique benefits not available to any of the other donator classes.
    • Any player who has opened 500 or more bonds or donated in excess of $5000 will be granted this rank! This makes it a highly elusive rank which will likely not be seen often.
  • Forum effect:
    • One of the most notable features of the Master donator is the color-changing effect of the username as well as the post background to match the color of the website.
  • Standard benefits (upgraded versions of the lower donator rank benefits:
    • All Uber (and below) donator benefits mostly one-upped, including:
      • 35% chance of rare loot from Clue scrolls
      • Raids benefits:
        • 30% chance of extra loot in Raids
          • Possibility of 6 rewards
        • 7.5% points lost on death in Raids
      • 12% boosted drop rate on all rare loot
      • 20% increased clue bottle/bird’s next chance
      • 50% PKP bonus
      • 30% Instance cost reduction
      • 32% Bloody chest rare loot chance increase
      • Inferno start wave raised to 45
      • Maximum of 9 planks can be made with Plank make spell
      • …and every other Uber benefit!
  • Unique benefits:
    • Stray dog pet
      • Only available for Master donators, this unique pet can be purchase from Probita!
        • You can even shoo-away your stray dog! Don’t worry, he won’t run off, though.
    • Cost-free skin colors:
      • Master donators do not have to pay to set/change their skin colors through the Donation manager.
    • Dragon skin color:
      • Also exclusive to holders of this rank, a new deep-red skin color is now available! As with other skin colors, this color will be free to obtain. Speak to the Donation Manager to set your skin color to Dragon.
    • Possibility of 6 items from Raids
    • Vote book bonus experience lasts 30 minutes longer (1:30 instead of 1 hour) as well as giving 10 extra vote points (does not stack with vote bonus on weekends)

 
 
 
 








 
 
 
 
Cheers :)
Omicron

I would love to see an extra world just voted no because I think it shouldnt be classic only.

Hey guys,

 

Here are the staff voted nominees for this months (January) MOTM poll. We considered changing how the voting would be decided but ultimately decided on keeping the community involved. Best of luck to everyone that has been chosen for this months MOTM. 

 

 

Rules & Information:

 

- The top 3 with the most votes by 1/21/18 will go into a separate poll for staff and a winner will be chosen ultimately by staff.

- The winner of this months MOTM will win 3 bonds,(Can be claimed on any game mode) a Forum award, and also be featured on the main page of forums for an entire month.

- If you are caught asking others to come vote for you, your name will be removed from the poll.

- If you are caught voting multiple times on multiple different accounts, all votes will be removed and you will be infracted on forums.

- Any off topic discussion will be removed.  (Keep the topic clean and on topic)

I think it would be a cool to see your Total Level, and your rank in your game mode, on your high-scores page. I don't feel like this would be a massive amount of development time as all of that information is already stored in various parts of the high-scores, just not displayed on your profile. Thoughts?

 

Rules and Regulations

 

Omicron and Tauri both reserve the right to punish any member as they see fit throughout the entirety of Alora.

 

Bans are not issued upon request.

Staff discretion applies to all the rules listed below.

 

 

In-game Rules

 

1. Flaming, Disrespect, Harassment, and Inappropriate Content

Within Alora, we seat a culturally diverse community. Communities contain different races, beliefs, ethics, sexual orientations, etc. It is vital that we preserve and protect each culture and that we ensure equality throughout Alora as a whole. The denigration or defamation of a member will not be tolerated. First offenders will receive a 24-hour mute, followed by a 48-hour mute, increasing to a 7-day mute, a 14-day mute, and finally, a permanent mute.

 

• a. The use of inappropriate, slanderous, and/or disrespectful language towards another’s race, belief system, mental health, ethics, or sexual orientation to personally attack an individual or group will not be tolerated. Although we have an effective ignore system, we expect our members to be courteous towards one another.

• b. Content that is publicized via world yell, public chat, or clan chat that is deemed inappropriate, demeaning, or disrespectful per a staff member’s discretion is not permitted and will correspond with the punishments stated above.

• c. Account names containing inappropriate, slanderous, and/or disrespectful language towards another's race, belief system, ethics, or sexual orientation are not tolerated. Failure to comply with this will result in a permanent ban of the account.

• d. Any form of griefing in an attempt to troll or purposely disrupt another player's activities will not be tolerated. This rule will be enforced through the staff's discretion. Failure to comply with this will result in a 1-hour jail, followed by a 5-hour jail, increasing to a 24-hour ban, and finally, a permanent ban. Please note that any reports of grief that do not include video evidence will be declined.
 
• e. Harassment will be defined as anything that can be considered targeted to a specific group or person. This rule is enforced through the staff's discretion. Punishments will correspond with the ones stated above. Further action may be taken if it's deemed a group activity or the users involved represent a group. *This applies to the entirety of Alora including forums.
 
 

2. Advertising

Advertisement of another RSPS related community is strictly prohibited. Failure to comply will result in an immediate removal from the community with no chance of appeal.

 

• a. Widespread, ordinary links (eg. YouTube, RuneLocus, Rune-Server, TopG) are acceptable and will oftentimes be permitted, granted one does not take advantage of this exception.

• b. Discussing other active servers in-game and/or on the forums is strictly forbidden. You may discuss any RSPS that is not online. Members who wish to advertise a link that is not related to RSPS or was not one of the common links aforementioned may send a link to an administrator and await a response containing approval before publicizing their desired link.

• c. Direct advertisement will not be tolerated on Alora. (eg. "Come fight me on Alora, they have a better combat system!"). First offenders will receive a 24-hour mute, followed by a 48-hour mute, increasing to a 7-day mute, and finally, a permanent mute.

• d. Alora has a filter in place to avoid discussion that is harmful to Alora as a whole. Any attempt to get around this system will result in a 48-hour mute, followed by a 7-day mute, and finally, a permanent mute. In addition, any attempt to get around the filter in order to sway other players to donate/switch to another active server will be punished more severely with a 7-day IP-mute, followed by a permanent ban, with the end result being a permanent removal from the community.
 
• e. Whilst we value our clans, we will not tolerate blatant advertising/discussion of other servers, either in their clan chats or, their discord. Our priority here, is to communicate our concerns & work with clans to combat this. If needed &, as a last resort, we will resort to punishments.
 
 

3. Spamming

Spamming on Alora is not allowed, as it causes disarray throughout the server. We aim to maintain a cordial, pleasant atmosphere on Alora. We expect our members to be respectful of one another. Failure to comply with this rule will result in a 24-hour mute, followed by a 48-hour mute, and finally, a permanent mute. If excessive enough, the wrongdoer can be given an IP-Mute, and, finally, a permanent ban will be put into effect if deemed necessary. If the content of the spam contains terribly inappropriate, derogatory, or offensive text, the wrongdoer will receive the latter.

 

• a. If a member acquires a donor status that has a fairly short yell cool-down timer, that does not give them the right to abuse it under any circumstances.

• b. An auto-typer is allowed via public chat to buy or sell items. However, one must have at least 15-second intervals between each message with or without an auto-typer.

• c. Excessive begging for personal gain will not be tolerated on Alora.

• d. Advertising videos, Youtube channels, Or Alora related content will fall under the 5 minute "World yell" timer listed below.
 
 

4. Misleading Links, Hacking, and Threats

Misleading links are taken extremely seriously. We expect all links to follow the guidelines (see rule 2) and open up to whatever the link was rightfully advertising. Failure to comply with this rule will result in permanent removal from the community.

Any form of hacking will result in permanent removal from the community.

Threats that will put a member’s livelihood, security, personal information, and reputation at risk will result in permanent removal from the community.

 

• a. Threatening to DDoS a member of the community will not be tolerated, whether you are joking or not. Players found doing this will be punished. First offenders will receive a 72-hour mute, followed by a 1-week IP-mute, and ultimately the player will be MAC/IP banned on their 3rd offense. Aside from the threats, players found to be actually DDoSing another member of the Alora community will receive a complete removal from the community immediately with no chance of appeal.

- Here on Alora, we offer many methods of security by insisting our players use unique passwords and constantly reminding players to enable 2FA. This being said, our Staff Team works hard to keep our players' accounts secure, but it is ultimately up to the player to ensure that security with the tools we have available. Hacked accounts that do not have 2FA enabled are NOT ELIGIBLE for a refund.

• b. Threats against Alora as a whole will not be tolerated. When you threaten Alora you are also threatening every single member of our community, and thus will be held responsible for threats against each and every player. Those who threaten to DDoS Alora will receive a permanent removal from the community with no chance of appeal.
 
 

5. Punishment Evasion

Punishments that are assigned to members are given to further better Alora as a community and maintain a stable, fair, and efficient environment. With that being said, those who evade will not be dealt with lightly; if a member feels as if they were wrongly punished, they can go about it the right way by appealing and constructively stating their case. If one evades, it will result in a ban or an IP-Ban, depending on the magnitude of the situation.

 

• a.  Giving a user that is evading a ban money and/or items is considered encouraging others to break the rules. Refer to rule #10.

 

 

6. Real World Trading

The act of purchasing/selling goods or services (accounts, real-life items, RSGP, Microsoft points, riot points, other private server items for Alora items, etc.) will not be tolerated. This rule further effaces hacks, scams, etc. We will not be held responsible for a scam or hacking. Failure to comply will result in the seller being permanently banned with a complete bank wipe, followed with an IP-ban the second time around. As for the buyer, a 72-hour ban with a complete bank wipe will be arranged, granted it was the first offense. The second offense will result in a 7-day ban with a complete bank wipe, and, lastly, a permanent ban.

 

• a. Purchasing or selling any Alora account, or donor status is not permitted on the server or forums. First offenders will receive a permanent ban with no chance of appeal; the second offense will result in an IP-ban.

Disclaimer: The attempt or conspiracy to real-world trade will be punished the same as if the user had committed the act(s) in question.
 
 

7. Account Sharing

An account should be actively used by the owner only. This goes for all types of accounts whether it is a level 3 scout for the wilderness, a shared account people used to Teleblock other players, or an account you would share with a friend. Account sharing in an effort to progress another user's account or achievements will be punished with a 48-hour ban, followed by a permanent ban for both parties. For example, if you need items off your friend's account you may log in and take them. But you aren't allowed to go train fishing for him.

 

• a. Any attempt to give an account away will not be tolerated on Alora. Offenders will receive a permanent ban on the account being given away. 

 

• b. Any form of account services (ex. Inferno Cape service, XP gained/PVMing/PKing in exchange for something) is strictly prohibited and will result in a permanent ban for the service provider, and a 7-day ban for the service purchaser, along with a wipe of the item(s) received from the service.

 

 

8. Third-Party Software

Applying the use of third-party software that allows a member to have an (any) unfair advantage whatsoever will result in a 24-hour ban, followed by a 48-hour ban, with an ending result of a permanent ban. We strive to maintain an honorable environment where fairness flourishes and hard-earned achievements are commended. This includes auto-clickers, auto-typers, AHK.

 

• a. The use of botting clients/scripts/ghost mouse are forbidden and will result in an IP-ban as well as permanent bans on all owned accounts.
 
 

9. Multi-Logging

Multi-logging is not against the rules of Alora, as we do allow players to be logged into multiple accounts at once (maximum of 5 connections at any one time). However, we do not allow multi-logging to gain an extreme advantage over other users. We are striving to maintain an environment in which no player has an exponential advantage over other players. First offenders will receive a warning, Second offenders will receive a 24-hour ban, Third offenders will receive a 48-hour ban and bank wipe if deemed necessary, followed up with a permanent ban, and finally, an IP-ban

 

• a. Playing on multiple accounts at once while participating in the same skill, boss, minigame, or activity outside of the wilderness is allowed up to 3 accounts at a time. Anything that exceeds that will be deemed a violation and the appropriate punishment will be handed to all accounts involved.

 

• b. Multi-logging in the wilderness is allowed if you have no interaction between any of your accounts. If you have one account skilling in the resource area, and another account killing people in the Revenant Caves this is OK. It is not OK, for example, to skill in the resource area and kill other players there on your alternate account or have multiple accounts participating in the same skill, boss, minigame, or activity. It is also not allowed to use a second account to protect your accounts in the wilderness. Scouts are also allowed to an extent, as long as they do not allow an unfair advantage over other players in the Wilderness. Firstly, scouts must be Level 3 combat and have ABSOLUTELY NO ITEMS equipped or in their inventory. Secondly, for example, if you bring a scout to Chaos Elemental to see who is there BEFORE teleporting there, this is okay. It is not okay, however, to plant a scout outside of the Rev Caves entrance while you kill Revs so that you can see when PKers are coming. Scout must leave before the main account can teleport to this location. This rule also applies to the use of the second account to assist yourself with bossing or skilling in the wilderness.
 
 

10. Encouraging Others to Break Rules

Members that are somehow encouraging others to break a rule whether or not the enticed member understands that specific rule will receive a 24-48 hour mute or 24-hour ban, depending on the extremity or severity of the rule.

 

• a.  Giving a user that is evading a ban money and/or items is considered encouraging others to break the rules and the first offense will result in a 7-day ban followed with a permanent ban for the second offense.

 

 

11. Bug Abuse

Abuse of a bug or glitch that allows a member to somehow have an advantage over another member or the server itself is not tolerated. We strive to better Alora each and every day. In doing so, we ask all members to report any bugs or glitches as soon as they are found; if tampered with after, a permanent ban will be issued.

 

• a. Boss manipulation (safe spotting) is the flagrant act of maneuvering a boss into a position where it cannot properly perform its functions and/or mechanics. The usage of safe spot methods not available on Oldschool Runescape will not be tolerated on Alora. Wrongdoers will serve one hour in jail, followed by 5 hours in jail, with the ending result being a permanent ban.
 
 

12. Gambling/Scams/Refunds (Disconnects, Donations, etc.)

• a. Scammers will be punished severely with a permanent ban on their first offense, followed up by an IP-ban on their second offense. Scammed members will not be refunded because we provide effective methods to avoid being scammed, such as using a middleman (server support, moderator, administrator, etc.). Please note that we do not accept photo-reports of members being scammed. One must provide video evidence, or it will not be handled.

• b. Disconnections will not be refunded.

• c. Donations will only be refunded if the player has not been given their items or position (forums, server) after 72 hours; otherwise, a refund is not required. Items that have been claimed through our donation system will not be refunded.

• d. Reset of the server and/or forums will be refunded if the player has posted valid proof of their purchase in 'Donations' board; otherwise, a refund is not required.

- Gamble scams will be refunded if the user has proper proof as stated above.

- Changing agreed-upon rules or switching weapons (Staff of the dead + spec in a DDS fight) in a duel is considered scamming regardless of who wins the duel.

• e. Glitch refunds will only be refunded if the member has enough proof and has proof of containing the items prior to the occurrence of the glitch. Note that if Omicron does not see the proof as satisfactory, it can be declined and a refund will not be issued.

• f. The only people who are allowed to be Middle-Manning are Staff Members. Anyone else caught doing so will be punished as follows: first offense will result in a warning and wipe of wealth gained from the incident, second offense will result in a 24-hour ban and wipe of wealth gained from the incident, followed by a permanent ban and bank wipe and then a IP-ban.
 
• h. Custom donations made for other players are non-refundable under any circumstances, and refunding the payment without permission will result in a permanent MAC/IP ban across all accounts.
 
 

13. Player versus Player (PvP)

Alora is not held responsible for members who have lost, disconnected, etc., while in the wilderness. The wilderness, or 'No man's land', if you will, for the most part, has no restrictions; hence why it can be referred to as 'No man's land'. However, we do have a few rules:

 

• a. PvP-Farming: Designed as a system to reward PKers, any attempts to abuse this through arranged/paid-for kills will be punished - on a case by case basis. The first offense will receive a 7-day ban & wipe of the estimated wealth gained, the second offense will result in a permanent ban & any further transgressions will result in an IP-ban. Note: We reserve the right to change the severity of our given punishments based on the severity of a case.

• b. Luring is allowed for the most part. The few exceptions to this rule are members cannot attempt to lure via world yell or servers clan chats such as Alora and Help. Attempting to lure staff by asking for help whilst in the wilderness or anything else that involves blatant deception will result in a ban. The first offense will result in a 24-hour ban followed up by a 72-hour ban with the ending result being a 7-day ban + bank wipe.

• c. Attacking another player while you only have 1 item or essentially no valuable risk with the intent to negatively affect another player's experience in the wilderness is against the rules and will not be tolerated, However if you recieve pkp from a kill, we do not deem the offence as 1 iteming or no valuable risk therefor the rule is not in effect.. (ex. Using a ZGS and constantly returning to a specific area or person and harassing the player.) This rule is applied to the entirety of PvP across Alora.
However, certain areas of PvP will follow specific rules. While in Edgeville and ::edgepvp, the act of griefing fights will not be allowed. (ex. Walking over players constantly or placing items such as cannons down.)

Pjing/Rushing is allowed; But if reported with sufficient evidence of being an ongoing issue and considered harassment, it will be dealt with by staff discretion.

First offenders will receive a 5-hour jail followed by a 24-hour ban, increasing to a 7-day ban, and finally, a permanent ban.

• d. X-Logging from the server will result in a 24-hour ban, then a 48-hour ban, and finally, a permanent ban, as doing this causes an unfair advantage for other members of the community.
 
 

14. World Yell

Members may use world yell to advertise clan chats & group activities. This should be done at a minimum interval of every 5 minutes for the same clan. First offenders will receive a warning, followed by 24-hour yell mute, with the ending result being a 48-hour mute.

 

• a. Closed Clan Chats must provide a [;;topic xxxxxx] for their sign-up page to ensure people understand how to join the clan chat & which requirements there are.

• b. Flaming, flame-baiting, false-advertisement and trolling via world yell will not be tolerated. The act of doing so will be punishable by a 12-hour yell mute, followed by a 24-hour yell mute, 48-hour yell mute, 7-day yell mute, 14-day yell mute and finally, a permanent yell-mute. Further punishment may result subject to Rule 1, at the staff team's discretion.
 
• c. Luring members over the world yell is prohibited and can result in the revoking of the wrongdoer's access to world yell temporarily or indefinitely, depending on the severity of the text.

• d. Advertising videos or content related to Alora is allowed with a yell timer of 5 minutes+, if this is below 5 minutes you will be warned at first, the second time it will result in a 24-hour yell-mute followed by a 48-hour yell-mute with the ending result being a 7-day yell-mute.

• e. AFK yelling is only allowed when it is 10+ minutes each yell, if this is below 10 minutes you'll be kicked at first with a warning upon logging in. The second offense will result in a 24-hour yell-mute with the ending result being a permanent yell-mute.

• f. Anything that can be seen as intentional spam in yell is a mutable offense. "Ree" is no longer an instant mute, however, if you are to spam yell chat with it, you will be punished. The first offense will result in a 1-hour yell-mute followed up by a 24-hour yell-mute with the ending result being a 7-day yell-mute.

• g. Alora is primarily based out of the United States and Canada. This being said, the only language that should be used on the World Yell or in the Alora CC is English. The use of any other language will result in a 1-hour yell-mute, followed by a 24-hour mute, a 48-hour mute, a 7-day mute, and finally, a permanent mute.
 
 

15. Clan Chats

• a. Members may not converse about any extraneous topics while in the Alora/Help clan chats. Wrongdoers will receive a warning, followed by a temporary kick, increasing to a 24-hour mute, with an ending result of a permanent mute.

• b. Members are not permitted to advertise personal clan chats or threads while in other clan chats. Failure to comply will result in a warning, then a 1-hour mute followed up by a 24-hour mute with the ending result being a 7-day mute.

• c. Members cannot attempt to lure via world yell or the Alora/Help clan chats (see rule 14). The first offense will result in a 24-hour ban followed up by a 72-hour ban with the ending result being a 7-day ban + bank wipe.

• d. Anything that can be seen as an intentional disturbance inside clan chats is a bannable offense. The first offense will result in a 1-hour ban followed up by a 24-hour ban with the ending result being a 7-day ban.
 
 

16. Invading Other Communities

Invading other communities will result in the permanent removal from the entirety of Alora with no chance of appeal. Here on Alora, we are firm advocates of displaying perpetual, irrefutable integrity. We have the utmost respect for each and every RSPS community and only wish them well.

 

 

17. VPN Voting

Any use of excessively changing your IP-address to vote will not be tolerated whatsoever on Alora.

We strive to maintain an honorable environment. Anything that brings an unfair advantage will not be tolerated (see rule 8). VPN voting goes against many of the Top-lists terms of service, which can result in the termination of Alora from the Top-lists. Those who fail to comply with this rule will first receive a 24-hour ban with a vote book wipe (*), followed by a 48-hour ban with a vote book wipe (*) issued to all accounts involved, followed by a permanent ban, and finally, an IP-ban.

 

• a. Manipulating the voting system to obtain excessive amounts of vote books will result in the punishments above.

• Vote book wipe (*): A vote book wipe consists of any vote books on your account, as well as the approximate wealth gained from the sale of vote books obtained by VPN voting, being wiped.

 

 

18. Impersonation

• a. Impersonating an Alora staff member is strictly prohibited.

• b. Impersonating anyone for entertainment or fraud is strictly prohibited.

• c. Impersonating any of the server accounts is strictly prohibited. (Alora/Help)

 

Players that fail to comply with this rule will be permanently banned. Based on the severity of the incident, repeat offenders will be IP-banned. Staff discretion will be used.

 

 

19. Disclaimer on Evidence

• a. All images or videos must be submitted within a 30 day period of the offense to be valid, preferably same day.

The staff team reserves the right to assess the evidence that does not fall within this time period individually and at their discretion.

• b. Act of creating false evidence against a player will result in a permanent ban for the player making the report.

 

 

 

 

Forum Rules

 

1. Inappropriate Language

Within Alora, we seat a culturally diverse community. Communities contain different races, beliefs, ethics, sexual orientations, etc. It is vital that we preserve and protect each culture and that we ensure equality throughout Alora as a whole. The denigration of a member will not be tolerated.

 

• a . Topics, posts, inbox messages, etc., that are conducted at a single member, or group, to either defame them of their reputation will result in infractions or a ban from the forums.
 
• b. Alora's community is based out of the United States and Canada. As such, the only language that should be used on the forums is English. The use of any other language will result in an infraction as well as the removal of the post.

 

 

2. Inappropriate Content

Pornographic material, including discussion and media, is not allowed on the forums. This includes material such as half-naked women, men, and media of such inappropriate acts. This also includes text-based material in our threads, posts, avatars, profile page. Failure to comply will result in a permanent removal from the entire community.

 

Inappropriate content that provides and/or promotes media of drug use, foul behavior, or other forms of content that are deemed inappropriate will be removed and punishment will be in order, depending on the severity of the content publicized.

 

 

3. Advertising

Advertisement of another RSPS related community is strictly prohibited. Failure to comply will result in an immediate removal from the community with no chance of appeal.

 

• a. Widespread, ordinary links (eg. YouTube, RuneLocus, Rune-Server, TopG) are acceptable and will oftentimes be permitted, granted one does not take advantage of this exception.

• b. Discussing other active servers in-game and/or on the forums is strictly forbidden. Members who wish to advertise a link that is not related to RSPS or was not one of the common links aforementioned may send a link to an administrator and await a response containing approval before publicizing their desired link.
 
 

4. Spamming

• a. Posts that consist of one word (e.g. posting "support" on a suggestion thread) are considered spam and will be deleted off of the thread along with the wrongdoer receiving a warning or an infraction. This rule does not apply to the Spam section or the Red Carpet section.

• b. Posting in the correct section and board is required at all times. Failure to do so results in an infraction.

• c. Gravedigging is the act of posting on an inactive thread (the last post being 14 days or older). Unless a member is posting relevant, useful information regarding the topic at hand, then it is considered spam and an infraction will be in order along with the removal of the post. Members are permitted to comment on older threads only in the suggestions section if given a detailed response. Otherwise, they will be punished accordingly.

• d. Trolling is not permitted on the forums. This applies to any portion of Alora.

• e. Posting in the marketplace section without meaningfully contributing to the thread will result in an infraction.
 
 

5. Misleading Links, Hacking, and Threats

Misleading links are taken extremely seriously. We expect all links to follow the guidelines (see rule 3) and open up to whatever the link was rightfully advertising. Failure to comply with this rule will result in the permanent removal from the community.

 

Any form of hacking will result in permanent removal from the community.

 

Threats that will put a member’s livelihood, security, personal information, and reputation at risk will result in the permanent removal from the community.

 

 

6. Backseat Moderation

Backseat moderation is not tolerated because it causes an unneeded uproar throughout members and oftentimes, a large portion of the community. Staff members have been assigned their role(s) for a reason. Those who have any need whatsoever, we strongly encourage you to report it to a staff member so it can be dealt with in an efficient manner.

 

 

7. Encouraging Others to Break Rules

Members that are somehow encouraging others to break a rule whether or not the enticed member understands that specific rule will receive a mute or ban, depending on the extremity or severity of the rule.

 

 

8. Influencing Polls

Asking people to vote for a certain option on a poll is strictly prohibited; this will result in the nullification of your vote on that poll, as well as receiving an infraction.

 

 

9. Reputation Boosting

Reputation advancement is intended for content that is found useful and/or helpful towards another member. If a member asks another member to do something that involves reputation by bribing, threatening, asking, etc., then that is classified as reputation boosting. If caught, the wrongdoer's like-count and reputation rating will be reset. If done a second time, it will result in a permanent ban. 

 

• a. This rule does NOT apply to staff hosted events.
 
 

10. Shoutbox

The shoutbox is implemented for the use of general purposes without having to post on the forums. Although it is a great convenience, it is not an entitlement. It can be revoked if used wrongly.

 

• a. Flaming another member in the shoutbox will result in a temporary mute.

• b. Flooding the shoutbox is prohibited. The wrongdoer will be banned from it for at least 24 hours, depending on how excessive it was.

• c. Staff impersonation is not tolerated on the shoutbox. Failure to comply will result in a permanent ban from the community altogether.

• d. Advertisement is a permanent ban entirely with no chance of appeal.
 
 

11. False Accusations

The act of making false accusations towards another member of the community is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to, falsifying evidence, libel, etc. This is subject to evidence submitted in an appeal, personal messages, yell, etc. to defame or falsely accuse a user in any section of the game/forums. The act of doing so will result in a permanent ban or permanent removal from the community, depending on the magnitude of the offense. 

 

 

Terms of Service Agreement

 

By being on the forums and server, you understand that you are responsible for your own actions. You understand that the rules stated above will be enforced at all times, and the administration reserves the right to alter any of the statements above as they see fit. We have the authority to do what we want with your account, as it is our property and you are merely playing on it. You understand that when a rule is broken, your account will be dealt with accordingly and as fairly as possible.

 

You hereby agree that by registering on these forums, you know that your contract with Alora.io also correlates to the server and any service that is owned by us. You understand that because Alora is associated with US and Netherlands that both the Electronic Signatures in Global and International Commerce Act (ESGICA) and Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council laws are in effect within this community and failure to follow these rules will result in permanent removal from the community.