Miya

Discord Tag - Deran#1964

How long have you been in ICE? - I've been in ICE since early 2019.

What position are you applying for? - Captain or Lieutenant if deemed unworthy due to my absence.

Have you ever been in a staff position or position of power? - Yes, I've been a staff member in numerous private servers and I was a Captain in ICE. I don't have any leadership experience in real life situations though.

If so, where and what did your duties entail? (Put N/A if not) - I helped manage the community, advertise the clan and held some events occasionally.

How much time do you spend on Alora and in the CC daily? - I'm always in the ICE CC when I'm not raiding. I usually spend around 3-4 hours in-game on weekdays and 5-6 hours on the weekends.

Being in the Discord is REQUIRED. Are you willing to be active in the Discord and attend weekly meetings? - Absolutely, that's not a problem.

Why would you like to work with us? - I already know that this is a fantastic community filled with great people. I'd like to help the clan grow and help it stay #1.

What skills do you possess that would make you a good addition to our team? - I'd say I'm a great guy and I'm always happy to help.

Is there anything else you would like for us to know when considering your application? - I'm idiot

What is your suggestion?: Tweaking ToB HM rewards

Is this in OSRS?: Yes

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

How would this benefit Alora?: 
Making drop rates closer to OSRS rates would bring more of an 1:1 feel. Whilst I've enjoyed seeing more purples in HM than in regular ToB, rates seem to be a bit off based on the data I got from #game_news channel on Alora discord. 
As of now, we have seen these drops from ToB HM:
- Total amount of drops so far: 228
- Avernic defender hilt: 23
- Holy/Sanguine kits: 26
- Justiciar faceguard: 42
- Justiciar chestguard: 36
- Justiciar legguards: 35
- Sanguinesti staff: 31
- Ghrazi rapier: 28
- Scythe of Vitur: 7
Based on numbers and explanation of drop rates @Omicron posted on another topic https://www.alora.io...s/#entry409538 there should've been a 27% increase of "good loot" drops, these being weapons and Justiciar pieces. On OSRS regular ToB rates these items are on a rate of 2/19 when hitting the drop table. Currently, Justiciar pieces have drop rate close to 1/6 (~3,15/19) on average per piece, when Ghrazi rapier and Sanguinesti staff have an average drop rate of around 1/8 (~2,4/19). Compared to OSRS regular ToB rates where Scythe of Vitur has a drop rate of 1/19 when hitting the table, Aloras current rate on HM is closer to 1/33. 

Based on these numbers, mentioned 27% boost on the "good loot" table only seems to make Justiciar pieces 3/19 instead of 2/19 when hitting the table. 

I have two possible changes for the droprates:
1. Using the rolls currently allocated to Holy/Sanguine kits to be used on Avernic/Rapier/Sanguinesti rolls, since Justiciar and these two weapons should have the same weight on the drop table.

1 - Scythe of Vitur

3 - Ghrazi rapier
3 - Sanguinesti staff
3 - Justiciar faceguard
3 - Justiciar chestguard
3 - Justiciar legguards
3 - Avernic defender hilt

2. If the first suggestion lowers the Avernic rate too much, doubling the amount of rolls on the table and using following weightings:
3 - Scythe of Vitur
5 - Ghrazi rapier
5 - Sanguinesti staff
5 - Justiciar faceguard
5 - Justiciar chestguard
5 - Justiciar legguards
10 - Avernic defender hilt

You can ban us or you can mute us but you still can't KILL US LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. 

TY for 10b+ in a week make sure to hit those ;;raids so you can keep filling our banks

In 1789, unrest grew from the French people. Dissatisfied with their current regime that gave privileges to, and treated the French ruling class and nobility as higher citizens, while simultaneously failing to meet the needs of the common people. The French people battled against this ruling class for egalitarianism, and equality of life regardless of their place within their current regime.
 

While many men were focused upon equality of life during this time, a French politician and physician, named Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was focused on equality of punishment, and death, regardless of class. He revolutionized a machine prototype previously devised by the then king's physician, and changed the outcome of the French Revolution forever.
 

Peeks guerrilla fighters and ICE insurgents present:

The Guillotine





 

I'm glad to announce that since our previous thread marking our return, things have shifted dramatically.

After releasing it we sat and watched the fireworks that resulted from forcing our competition out of the wilderness, even going as far to watch them congregate in voice chat immediately after and attempt to rationalize what had just happened to them.



Paragon discord has been VERY quiet since learning the news that they are absolutely INFESTED with spies, more and more members of theirs realizing the sinking ship they're apart of and attempting to save themselves via spying. Internally, they’ve been attempting to quell their members fear, trying to brainwash them that we would be leaving August 25th due to the re-release of Deadman Mode on 07!



We’d like to formally announce, regardless of what Lieutenant ‘gim crohn’ has attempted people into believing: We will be staying, this onslaught will NOT be stopping for the foreseeable future!
 

Paragon leadership has been HARD at work though MAC muting our members for scathing insults such as “Donkey” and “Victim”, filling up their VERY active NSFW channel, and hosting PvP events that we took EVERY prize from.



We’ve even caught them out in multi a few times, attempting to regain control over the wilderness that was once theirs. The results went as anyone would expect!





Wait… while writing this we’ve JUST now noticed something.

Look closer.

What’s that..?

Accidentally killing their OWN members! Maybe they took THIS time as an opportunity to spy hunt! Odd strategy but alright!



We’re going to do this in sections. Our kills on Paragon since our previous thread, a few cheeky kills we picked up on randoms, our exhibit on the namechanging creature known as Brad Jr/xPUNISHERx/Oregon Rs, and one of the biggest kills in recent Alora history we’ve been saving to announce for this thread.























Really not a great two weeks for them!
Let’s move onto some kills from randoms we picked up along the way!













Next, onto our exhibit of the mystical, namechanging creature known as Brad Jr! Or xPUNISHERx! or Oregon RS!





After slaying him for multiple max sets, he has decided to shed his identity using the power of a name change scroll!
We don't think he's found out about the ::profile feature yet, let's not tell him!

Now we'd like to present something VERY special: one of the biggest kills in Alora's recent history.
We found this wandering the wilderness, obtained his loot, and managed to sell the entire set for a cool 9b!
 

That’s fun, we know. But we also know what you’re really here for.

And we didn’t skimp on the fun stuff this time.
 

Let’s take a formal tour of Paragon discord.
 

Welcome to #members-lobby, once a bustling, thriving place, it’s since gone quiet or members are only spamming gifs, afraid of what eyes may be watching!

Here we can find such beauties as:




 

Lieutenant Realmungard trying to convince people that the problem ACTUALLY is that they’re giving us fights, and that simply hiding until we left would be a viable strategy!





Spy paranoia!

And much more!

Now, welcome to #pk-lewt, their dedicated PVP channel (although they complain they AREN’T a pvp clan), only accessible by members with their @Shooter rank, (fortunately, that wasn’t an issue for us!)
 

Here we can find such goodies as:



To Gain unsuccessfully attempting to mass a whole THREE members to fight us!

It seems like low morale has been a thing amongst their ranks for quite a while, look at this time they couldn't pull ANYONE for a fight with Aftermath in the past!



Absolutely brutal!

We can also find things such as killpics (however rare they may be between the barrages of unsuccessful spamming)!



Truly remarkable, astounding, phenomenal.

For our final look through Paragon discord, swiftly stepping by the VERY active NSFW channel, let’s take a look at #announcements, the center for knowledge regarding Paragon activities!



Very sweet! We hope that possibly this thread will be the subject of their next movie night together!



Very sad! Always depressing when a leader has to step down from his clan!

We don’t know what’s next in store for us regarding Paragon, but we have NO doubts that if there isn’t loot due to them hiding, atleast we will be entertained from our internal surveillance!




This post was made with thoughts and prayers for previous member ‘smackingthat’, a senseless causality due to the rampant toxicity inside Paragon. We wish him the best in whatever he chooses to pursue next. Very tragic.

I think this post identifies your main flaws as well.

You come back to realism after a long break.  Find out you can't buy your way through.

Complain about how TP doesn't sell as fast as you're used to... how items don't have set prices...

So you try to get a suggestion passed to allow you to go to classic without transferring ranks, citing a bad eco as your primary reason.

Then when you get called out for your poor reasoning... you switch over to complaining about Alan's high prices and market manipulation.

 

 

Buying items and selling items is how an economy works bro.

Any player can sell any item for any price.  No one is forcing people to buy.

If you want to buy uncut diamonds at 20k each, that's on you.  That's not manipulation.

You... and no one else... decided your crafting experience and time was worth that amount.  

If I want to buy vote books on normie and sell them on realism, that's not also market manipulation.

Any realism player is welcome to do the same on normie. 

But if they're too lazy to... I just offer them an easier alternative.

Don't like my prices?  Don't buy from me.

 

The problem isn't me.  The problem isn't the realism economy.  The problem is you.

You don't want to grind.  You don't want to sell items cheaper.

Just keeping it real.

This is up there among the dumbest, most ignorant, things I've read on the forums. Believe me that is saying something considering I dealt with appeals for over two years of people pretending their "brother" or "cousin" committed the offenses on their accounts.

Perhaps the reason this strikes you so personally is because you quite literally try to control and manipulate the Realism game mode and markets. You and your cult force players to sell things cheaper just for you to buy them and list them at your prices. This isn't an issue with KP considering handfuls of Realism players, past and present, have reached out to him agreeing with his points. It's actually quite sad that they're too scared to speak up publicly on the matter because you will cut them off from the "homie" deals and they'll be forced to progress as an ironman in an economy game mode.

Just keeping it real. :)

What is your suggestion?: 

I believe that Realism Player should have the option do change to classic, as it feels like the natural option if they don't want to play the gamemode anymore.

Is this in OSRS?:

N/A

Has this suggestion been accepted already?:

Highly doubt it

How would this benefit Alora?:

It would make people play on the account they love without being crippled with difficulties they absolutely didn't sign up for.

As it currently stands, Realism is nothing more than a bigger GIM gamemode, with the other 90% of players killing revenants.
The economy is ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED. Theres barely any endgame items circulating, and supplies cost fortunes. Some of the players that have ludicrous amounts of GP simply use it to swap, or try to.
I respect this grind a lot, and the difficulties only small amounts of players managed to overcome, but when I personally picked this gamemode I didn't sign up for GIM with very low XP rates. The challenge in the gamemode was the XP rate, not trading for items. I don't find it a challenge to pay 80-100K for a super restore, while not being able to sell me PvM drop, unless I accept votebooks/boosters.
My Suggestion is to have an option for whoever wants, to change to the classic gamemode. The economy will only become worse, so a bit of a hot take would be that it is time to merge the economies. That would be disrespectfull for any legends that managed have insanely good accounts on the respective gamemode, so for now I would be very happy with the option to remain on a low XP rate gamemode, where I don't have to get absolutelly robbed if I want to buy something, and look at my PvM drops die out in the trading post.
To sum it up, I signed up to grind it out on a very challenging XP rate, not a Very challenging trading  post. I have been through this with classic already, and I didn't sign up for that either.

A small example, not the best but you get the point:

^ In no way shape or form did a realism player sign up to get extorted for every item, or to have no endgame items availiable to buy/sell.
 

Much love and thank you for reading it.   
 

500 Cox run achieved 26/10 2020 

Collection Log

Still hunting that top to finish this

11/10 Post & took a lot of what I've been wanting to say but am honestly afraid to because I know my ranks will fly if I do so. 

With the 'troubles' coming to Alora soon, delaying updates & releasing a donator rank, which will fuck custom prices much more, seems to be a few steps in the wrong direction. 

Loc dev blog updates? 

It's a damn shame that posts like these won't change a thing, only $ talks on Alora. 

In my opinion a TEMPORARY revert could be helpful, but not permanent. Reverting to the old COX until all the bugs and issues with the "new" cox can be fixed would be helpful to people who actually need items from COX and want to camp it. If there were no bugs or issues, the new cox is a great switch up from the way it used to be.

SUPPORT

I mean miya, all i can say is F

That ToB log is pretty grim, but nevertheless, good work! Keep it up