Chris

Been playing this server off and on for quite a few years now. Almost there, lol.

pretty sure if you open the drop searcher / monster searcher ingame it scales with your current drop rate (donor + scrolls) so you can see it there

What is your suggestion?:

Improvements to the RuneLite presets plugin:

 

Problem: Currently if you have multiple clients open, make a new preset, close both clients - your new preset may not have saved. I thought it was dependant on whichever client was closed last, but this doesn't seem to be the case. This is confusing and frustating to deal with.
 

Fix: Make presets save dependant on which account is logged in (just like loot tracker).

EDIT: Syncing works if you log into runelite with a gmail account. This suggestion is unneccesary :)

Is this in OSRS?: No

Has this suggestion been accepted already?: No

How would this benefit Alora?: Small QOL for all Alorians

Welcome to the January edition of the Alora Times! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. Huge year ahead of us with many big updates and events to come! First big content coming our way is the Desert Treasure 2 release, keep an eye out for that!

Hope you enjoy the read! Make sure to follow Alora on FB and Instagram above and join our Discord.      

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Bonus Schedule for January

January Vote Competition [January 1st - January 21st]

Weekday Events 1/10/2023 - 1/11/2023

Development Blog #16: Desert Treasure 2 and Mobile Plugins

If you want to check out our past updates, click here.

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There were no rule updates this month!

Alora's Official Rules can be found here.

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The latest Staff Changes are as follows:

To see our past Staff Updates, click here.

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This month we have some great interviews from Moe & R e i. Enjoy the read!

 

H: What is one of your accomplishments you're most proud of?

Moe: I was going to make this answer Alora related, but I will actually reply to this in question 3 as this seems like it is more in general. I think my favorite accomplishment in life so far is having built real online side hustles to generate a real income instead of working the classic 9-5. I hope to get back on that track later, but right now my focus is Alora!

 

H: What is something you think everyone should do at least once in their lives?

Moe: TRAVEL or Psychdelics (SAFELY/CHECK HEALTH FIRST), Maybe both? Seeing the world and experiencing other cultures/people for yourself I think is huge, and it sort of connects with psychdelics. In the sense that we are all connected, and in the end we are here for a short time to try to live a fulfilling life together until we go back to where we started!

 

H: What is your most memorable moment while playing Alora?

Moe: I have made many memorable moments here at Alora, thankfully to all you beautiful souls I have gotten to meet. So I will answer this with joining the staff team, as it has given me the opportunity to be a part of something much bigger. A loving community in a stupidly addicitng game we all call home.

 

H: What do you do in your spare time apart from play Alora?

Moe: For the past 3-4 months as most of you may have noticed, I have been a little less active. I have been busy with IRL problems, most have been sorted now and I will finish with a surgery end of this month. Which is basically what all my spare has been going to (doctors). Before that my average day consisted of meeting up with friends to go out, turning up of course, expanding my online gigs, investing in crypto, & playing FIFA/Yu-Gi-Oh on PS5.

 

H: If you were given $10,000, what would you do with it?

Moe: Invest it into another online business, I don't think these days I would use money for anything other than trying to make more money with it. The beautiful thing about the online world and the reality these days, you can make money out of ANYTHING! Just get creative, all you have to do is create demand for a service/product you can easily do yourself (in any market)!

 

Next up is R e i

 

H: What is one of your accomplishments you're most proud of?

R e i: I don't usually speak about it, but my most proud accomplishment, was beating cancer, It was during a very low point in my life with depression, family issues and all that and to top it all off being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer was something that borderline almost killed me, not because of the severity of such cancer because it was thankfully caught on very early, but the stress and mental toll it took on me, that a certain instance i thought about taking my own life, thankfully I sought help, got said help and still am here today, healthier and a happy person.

 

H: What is something you think everyone should do at least once in their lives?

R e i: Travelling, visit a new country, there's so much out there to see in the world, a lot of beautiful place to see and enjoy all in ones capabilities naturally. I had the chance to visit a friend in Hong Kong and it was an amazing experience for me, being someone from Europe, travelling so far into the Asian continent was a beautiful and enjoyable experience for myself and I got to see a new culture, try out new foods and visit their awesome casinos   I think life is best lived when you have the possibility to go to new places, try new things and just enjoy yourself in general.

 

H: What is your most memorable moment while playing Alora?

R e i: I would definitely say becoming a staff member, I've had been apart of the community for awhile around the time, I decided to try and become apart of the team, although I wasn't exactly a very friendly player back then, I feel like I did reform to some degree and that enabled me to join a lot of great people at the time, even tho I have a lot of regrets about that past.

 

H: What do you do in your spare time apart from play Alora?

R e i: Have been into coding lately so definitely that, working out, spending a lot of my time with friends and family is something that i've started to do a lot more this past year because i see both as equally important and spending a lot of time infront of the computer is not something that I personally enjoy anymore. Games wise, I am very addicted sadly to league of legends and horror games, survival ones more specifically I just find those absolutely engaging as fuck to play and sometimes lose track of time.

 

H: If you were given $10,000, what would you do with it?

R e i: I would give it to my mom, I work very hard to make sure that she doesn't need to work and deserves to enjoy life, sadly my stepdad died 2 years ago on new years day and she hasn't been the same since, so I put a lot of attention towards her care and quality of life, so i think 10k would go a long way as to take her to a few places and make sure she gets the life she deserves.

Disclaimer:
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Here we honor our fallen comrades from the last month and there were a few of them! We wish them the best on their new Ironman journeys and better luck next time!

Stay up to date with some of our community members' recent Goals & Achievements: 

Kareem Sqr

My Account

Milkbone

Milkbone's UIM Log

Sassa fras

III - Wilderness Completed

 

 

 

 

Make a topic in our Goals and Achievements section or send your achievement in the #newspaper_submissions channel in Alora Discord to be featured here!

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The winner of December MOTM is...

Sassafras!

Congratulations! You have stood out in the eyes of the Alora community. Thank you for being a great member here on Alora and enjoy your rewards. :)

The link to the Member of the Month thread can be found here.

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That concludes this month’s edition of the Alora Newspaper! If you would like to see something added to the paper make sure to message H!

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What is your suggestion?:

Under the player statistics catagory in the quest tab, add a section showing what the total drop rate % boost a player has currently, and have it change if a player has a drop booster on. 

How would this benefit Alora?:

Makes it easier for us non math wizards to know what our boosted drop rate is over main game (the 21% boost over osrs + rank) This would work similarly to how it shows our xp rate boost.

Part I - https://www.alora.io...pic/78554-i-46/

Part II - https://www.alora.io...ic/80968-ii-17/

After returning six months ago, I decided to finish what I had originally started: in Part II, I had completed all collection logs of the old versions of the wilderness bosses... but there was a lot to do after the rework.  Of course like the dummy that I am, I had dropped all of my inventory and gear when I had quit, so I had a clean inventory and slate to work with. I would not have to endure one hour death-pile another hundreds of times, thank God. I would risk it all (other than my 3-4 protected items) for the following three goals:

1 - All Wildy collection logs

2 - All Wildy combat achievements

3 - Obtain Voidwaker

My quick and simple path to finishing these goals

1 - Kill Revenants ::redskulled with crystal bow for Rev weapons and ether - Obtained Craw's Bow and Viggora's Chainmace

2 - Die often to PKers, go kill Revenants for ether

3 - Complete log and CAs at Venenatis - Upgraded Craw's to Webweaver Bow, Obtained Voidwaker Piece 1/3

4 - Die often to PKers, go kill Revenants for ether

5 - Complete log and CAs at Callisto - Upgraded Viggora's Chainmace to Ursine Chainmace, Obtained Voidwaker Piece 2/3

6 - Die often to PKers, go kill Revenants for ether (I am sensing a pattern here...)

7 - Complete CAs at Chaos Elemental, Chaos Fanatic and Crazy Archaeologist - Dropped Webweaver Bow

8 - Die often to PKers, go kill Revenants for ether (Copying this over and over again is almost as frustrating as having to replenish ether)

9 - Go dry at Vet'ion for Voidwaker piece, back to revs for ether

10 - Complete log and CAs at Vet'ion - Obtained Full Voidwaker!!!

11 - Die often to PKers, go kill Revenants for ether (Someone make it stop)

12 - Complete miscellaneous logs like full Dagon'hai, Eternal Glory, Kruk Jr (wildy course laps) and Ecumenical Key

13 - Die often to PKers, go kill Revenants for ether (I am dead inside)

14 - Complete Revenants log, praise Omicron that I don't have to step foot in this fucking cave ever again - Dropped everything

15 - Get basic gear and supplies for KBD outside of wildy: Hasta, Fury, and lots of potions (went to Herbiboar for antifires/prayer/super restores)

16 - Complete KBD log

17 - Cry because it's over:

Tips from my time as a UIM in wildy

1 - Always try to do any PVM on task for ancient emblems and Larran's Keys. You can trade in the emblems for PKP, great for quick supplies when PK'd:

2 - Learn which of your targets are friendly, and which are not. Having Iron/HC/Fe/etc. in their username does NOT mean they won't be hunting you.

3 - Don't get greedy hoarding ether for your Rev weapons, since you lose it all to a PKer on death. It's just more time you have to spend in Rev caves.

4 - Don't get greedy hoarding cash from Revs, either. Very easy to store it in LMS, Miscellenia Coffer, or Servant's Moneybag in POH.

5 - Use untradeables to your advantage, like Crystal Bow, Salve Amulet (ei), Barrows Gloves, Slayer Helm (i), etc.. They're cheap to buy back from Lost Items Manager when PK'd. Just make sure you protect your Slayer Helm (i)!

6 - Be very careful what items you are protecting, and always make sure you have some prayer-restoring potions to avoid getting Smited. Here's a sample inventory and equipment I was using at one point:

7 - If you are trying to complete Revenants log, make sure you start killing Maledictus sooner rather than later. I procrastinated and suffered the consequences of leaving it last. From my experience, it spawns once every 27 minutes...this is an incredible 2 kills per hour. Here are all the Revs I slaughtered:

8 - Use Daily Rewards (Food, Prayer Potions) and Daily Task Shop (Super Combat Potions) to replenish supplies.

Other Highlights

The SWH dream never came true...would have been such a flex, oh well:

B2B Rev weapons:

My only announced drop from Bloody Chest:

My First (and ONLY) Kill!!!

Finally got this little guy while prepping for KBD:

And here is the account as of right now!

Thanks to all the PKers on the server who were pretty reasonable - you could have killed me indefinitely, but there were many that would tele to me just to say Hi. It was a lot of fun getting to know all of you. And Thanks to Ice for keeping me sane and motivated to finish this, much love

See you in Part IV.

-Sass

 

 

 

I value your thorough explanation and share your perspective. The crux of the matter lies in the perceived inactivity of the forums, and diminishing the significance of forum engagement doesn't seem to have an impact on the standing of both current and prospective veterans. Upon reviewing your profile, it's evident that you joined Alora in 2020, actively participated in the forums, and earned the veteran rank. It appears unjust that despite joining two years earlier, my lack of forum activity prevents me from attaining the rank, despite fulfilling all other requirements. The decline in forum activity adds an extra layer of difficulty in meeting the necessary post count. Your candid opinion is appreciated, and I'm curious to hear other responses to this post as well.

Dear Chris,

I established my account in 2020 but only began actively playing in March 2022. I attained veteran rank in January 2023. During that time, forum activity was minimal as it is now, with the exception of @Selenagomez consistently spamming weird suggestions.

Gotta hustle my g

The healer at Wt is not a necessity. It's cool if it's there and makes it somewhat more appealing, but is not a make or break by any means.

When wearing full warm clothing and keeping Wt below 10% the damage is drastically more infrequent and you do not need that much food to complete a full 13.5k point run, not to mention there's a safespot to fletch kindling.

No support.

Happy New Year!

As we enter the New Year (or have already entered, as for our time-traveling European friends), the Alora Team would like to wish you all the best this upcoming year! Be safe if you're out celebrating tonight, and if you're celebrating with your Alora family, we made sure to turn on all the server bonuses (including all 3 Raids, Nex & Gauntlet) to ring in the New Year.

We'd also like to take the chance to express our gratitude for the unwavering support we've received from the community over the past 7 years -- your support and feedback makes us want to continue to improve the game and community, and we simply wouldn't be here without you. It is an absolute honor to be celebrating our 8th NYE together, and every year it is an even more powerful reminder of just how strong of a community Alora is.

As per usual, we've got a whole lot in store for this year, as we showcased with our Development blog for Desert Treasure II & Mobile plugins, but we've got much more planned for the rest of the year that we can't wait to share with you.

All the best!

Omicron & Alora Staff Team

Hello Alorians,

First and foremost I want to thank everyone on the staff team for a great time and for welcoming me into the group with open arms. Thank you to everyone who I interacted with and who supported the streams! Due to the baby getting closer to being born, working more, and trying to have some social life while I can I have decided to step away from Alora and the staff team indefinitely. Definitely will miss everyone and the endless grinds but here is to my next chapter! Wishing everyone a Happy Holiday and happy grinding! I will be around forums and discord to say hi :)

Peace

Toothpaste Man

Sounds good to me, not sure why it's missing in the first place.

To add onto that, I think once the last skill has finished(Construction on the 22nd day), I think it would be sick if the last days of the month were randomized. 

Can you please try to elaborate a bit with a gif or a link to the plugin/wiki ?