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Hi guys and welcome to the latest edition of the Alora Newspaper. In this weeks edition we have some awesome ingame updates along with some new staff changes, a couple of new rules updates, some juicy winners & much more!
The update that came on 11/03/17 was another big one! The following were added;
Wilderness/PVP updates:
Combat fixes for prayer; Previously, a major bug in combat to do with the timing of prayer switches caused the game to not recognize your prayer if you toggled it as soon as another player's attack animation began.
Barrage orb added; This content is not from OSRS, but it is a useful feature that shows an "orb" graphics if you land a barrage on a target that is already frozen.
Food dropping in the wilderness is now limited; While you are still able to drop food/brews in the wilderness, any dropped will now have a 10x longer delay before appearing to other people.
Bonds update reverted:
Bonds are now back to how they were before due to popular request -- that is, granting a rank increase past Super donator.
Corporeal beast sigil rates fixed:
The previous update did not have the correctly calculated sigil drop rates. These have been corrected, and are matched exactly to OSRS: 1/585 chance to hit the sigil table, then a roll between 1-7 (not 1-100):
Elysian (1/7 chance)
Arcane (3/7 chance)
Spectral (3/7 chance)
We've decided to keep the rate exactly like OSRS as our version of Corp is considerably easier and faster to kill. This means we didn't apply the usual 1.23* multiplier which we do to our rare drops, but we did essentially make it 10x easier to get Sigils.
The Woodcutting Guild;
To get to the guild, you can use the newly added option in the Teleport wizard's Skilling section.
Any player with 60+ woodcutting may enter. An invisible +7 Woodcutting level boost is present within the guild.
The guild contains all common types of trees, as well as the new Redwood trees which are exclusive to the guild!
Extreme Slayer task updates:
Corporeal beast: 3-10 assignable.
Kree'arra (Armadyl boss) & Commander Zilyana (Saradomin boss) 5-25 assignable.
K'ril tsutsaroth (Zamorak boss) - 5-30 assignable
Other updates:
You can find the full update list here!
Many thanks to Omicron for the great work put into them.
There's been some new rules added over the past couple of weeks. They can be viewed in RED.
We've decided to officially allow PvP multi logging in Alora as well as change the ragging restrictions to only levels 1-5 in the wilderness.
Part added/Changed: RED
10. 3rd Party Software
We will not tolerate cheating of ANY kind as we know that it causes unfair advantages over other members that are attempting to play the server through fairness. We will do our best to enforce this and such things includes auto-clicking, cheat clients etc., that help the member gain EXP, cash or other various way of helping them better their experience either faster or unfairly.
a. Autoclicking:
First Offence - 5 hour ban | Second Offence - 24 hour ban | Third Offence - Permanent Ban
b. Botting Clients:
First Offence - Permanent Ban | Second Offence - IP-Ban
c. Playing on multiple accounts at once while participating in the same activity is prohibited. For example, having one account at corporeal beast and one thieving is acceptable while having two accounts thieving is not. PvP multi logging is exempt from this rule.
PLEASE NOTE - If you are caught botting on one account, it will result in that account receiving a permanent ban, and your main account will receive a 48 hour ban along with a bank wipe; greater offences take precedence.
First Offence - 48 hour ban (+ bank wipe on all accounts involved) | Second Offence - Permanent Ban | Third Offence - IP-Ban
d. Autotypers: This will be allowed to a certain extent, you can use an autotyper HOWEVER it must be set 15+ seconds any less will be considered spamming.
First Offence - 24 hour mute | Second Offence 48 hour mute | Third Offence - Permanent Mute
11. Player Vs. Player (PvP)
Alora is not held responsible for members who have lost, disconnected etc., while in the wilderness. We also do not have set rules for the wilderness, so go in there at your own risk.
a. PVP-Farming will be an automatic permanent ban with no chance of appeal. | Second Offence - IP-Ban.
b. X-Logging from the server is a banable offence, as this causes an unfair advantage for other members of the community.
c. Luring players into the wilderness will be an automatic permanent ban with no chance of appeal. Second Offence will be an IP-Ban.
Ragging is prohibited from levels 1-5 in the wilderness on Alora as it negatively affects our PvP community as a whole and debases the dignity of the wilderness. Our definition of a ragger is one who consistently attacks other players without true intentions of killing them as they purely want to prevent them from participating in PvP. All ragging reports must be reported with video proof. Video proof for scam reports must be approximately 5 minutes long showing that you are being prevented from participating in PvP.
First offense - 5 hour jail | Second Offence | 24 Hour Ban | Third Offense - Permanent ban
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.
Diva has switched across to Forum Moderator. This is a small change in position for Diva and gives them a little more responsibility. Good luck with the new role!
Iron Sux has been promoted to Server Moderator. Congratulations and good luck with the new role!
Unfortunately there have been some demotons & resignations.
Poor Level 3 resigned from Server Support. We'd like to thank Joey for all their hard work and efforts. Best of luck with the future.
Gigabyte was demoted from Server Support. Best of luck with your future endeavors.
We have decided to change Player of the Week to a Player of the Month award. The player who wins the Player of the Month will receive 1x Bond and an Award. As Syntax was the last winner of Player of the Week, we've gone ahead and made them the first winner of the award. The winner will be revealed on the 1st of every month.
This week
O - Hey Haris. Great to have you joining us today for the interview. Firstly, tell us a little about yourself?
H - My name is Haris, I was mainly known as "Frac7ure" for a couple years before dropping that and changing everything to my irl name. I'm 21 years old, and I was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Currently living in Upstate New York.
O - Are you in any sort of education(if so what?) or do you work?
H - Currently 1 year in for my Financial Services Management degree, taking a break at the moment though. Working at company that supplies medical supplies to hospitals across North America and some Asian countries.
O - How did you first hear about Alora and what made you decide it was the server for you?
H - I heard about Alora from Blank and Utorrent back when it was released. But I stopped playing RSPS for some time so I wasn't really interested at that moment in joining. After a few months of working and irl things, I started getting bored at home and had nothing to do. A friend of mine started playing Alora and asked me to join. As I knew Omicron from his previous server, I knew the quality of it would be great so I decided to try it out. I'm glad I did and plan to stay for a long time.
O - What is your prefered activity to do ingame?
H - May sound cliche but I don't have a preferred activity, I want to enjoy everything the server has to offer. Things like reaching max cape, getting achievments done, buying all things from achievment shop, doing raids, and trying out all the bosses.
O - What's your favourite type of Music?
H - Hip hop/Rap but I give everything a chance, as a genre I may barely listen to could have songs that I really like.
O - Why do you enjoy that genre and who's your favourite artist?
H - It's been my favourite genre since I was young, my brother introduced me to it shortly after we came to America. In both languages we speak, english and bosnian. My favourite artist at the moment would be, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. I think he's got great talent and expect him to rise furthur in popularity as he makes nothing but great music.
That concludes our interview for today with
We ran a poll regarding how often the Alora Newspaper should be released. The results are in and it's to be released twice per month. These dates will be the 1st and 15th of the month.
The NH Ironman tournament drew to a conclusion. There was a lot of fun had by all the participants and overall the event was a huge success. I personally took part and although I couldn't make the final, it was great for Alora and we'll look at doing something similar in the future.
Skot was the winner of the tournament. In the process they bagged themself a $150 cash prize and an exclusive Black Santa hat. Congratulations!
In second place finished Main Yasuo, winning a $50 cash prize and an exclusive Ankou set!
In third place was HOPES ENDING who won themself a $25 cash prize as well as 4 Mystery boses.
Great job by all and congratulations on your prizes!
