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Hey guys, welcome back to the latest edition of the Alora Newspaper. So Christmas is around the corner &
in this months winter edition we will be going over some huge updates, some new staff and a couple of rules updates as well as introducing a new feature that from now will continue every month - Member of The Month contest!
Read till the end to find out the results, thanks for actively voting everyone!
Enjoy reading! :)
Alora Official Rules have been updated & reposted!
There have been no specific rule changes, however be sure to visit HERE to view our new rules page.
Thanks to @
The Updates that come out on 21/12/17 was huge! The following was added;
- Christmas giveaway:
- As our way of getting into the Christmas spirit, and to show our gratitude for all of your continued support over the past year, we’re hosting a giveaway with IRL prizes this holiday season!
- You can enter in-game by purchasing tickets from Haris at home (leaning on Well of Goodwill). This is not to be confused with Haris’ Christmas giveaway, as this one is run by myself!
- Tickets cost 50m each, and each player (household if multiple people play from your house) can only have 20 tickets at most. This is very important, if your name is drawn and we find that you’ve purchased more than 20 tickets on multiple accounts you will be disqualified.
- The drawing will be on January 1st, 2018 at 09:00 EST.
- Prizes are unlocked as everyone collectively hits milestones.
- Prizes:
- 2.5b milestone: Razer Mouse (DeathAdder Chroma)
- 5b milestone: Razer Keyboard (BlackWidow Chroma V2)
- 40b milestone: PS4 Slim Console (1TB)
- You can enter in-game by purchasing tickets from Haris at home (leaning on Well of Goodwill). This is not to be confused with Haris’ Christmas giveaway, as this one is run by myself!
- FAQ:
- How many people will win?
- Assuming the full 40b gets donated, there are 3 prizes for 3 players.
- Can the same person win multiple items?
- To make it fair for everyone, if the drawing lands on the same person twice, there will be a re-roll.
- Can anyone enter?
- Yes, anyone can enter, including staff.
- If it reaches 40b for the PS4, can the other prizes still be won?
- Yes, if the 40b is reached, all 3 prizes are rewarded. If only 5b is reached, the first two prizes will be rewarded.
- What if I win but do not want the prize?
- You can also take the cash equivalent of the prize(via PayPal), or 1.5x the equivalent in Alora tokens.
- I have a brother/sister who also plays, can we each enter 20 times?
- Unfortunately, there is a cap on the number of tickets and it is set at 20 per household. This is to ensure everyone gets a fair chance and that nobody is cheating. We will be looking into the winners to make sure that they fairly purchased their tickets.
- How will the winner be picked?
- A random number will be picked, which will correlate to an entry on a list of names. Your name will appear on the list as many times as you’ve purchased tickets, meaning the more tickets you purchase the more likely it is to land on your name.
- How many people will win?
- As our way of getting into the Christmas spirit, and to show our gratitude for all of your continued support over the past year, we’re hosting a giveaway with IRL prizes this holiday season!
- Server updates:
- Christmas theme:
- Alora has been covered in snow!
- You can turn the snow on/off by typing ::snow in-game.
- Festive makeover:
- Alora’s NPCs have gotten festive this year, with many of them sporting Santa hats! These include many different pets, as well as certain NPCs such as the stray dog in Varrock and every rat around the world.
- Alora has been covered in snow!
- Christmas event:
- Huge thanks to @uTorrent and (?) @Volta for writing most of the script for this year's event!
- Christmas has arrived on Alora! Someone’s up to no good this year, and they’re doing their very best to ruin Christmas for everyone. The Town crier at home, near the Christmas tree, is asking for your help and will take you to the North Pole to investigate the disappearance of Santa further.
- You’ll have to work together with the fairy elves to find Santa and save Christmas this year.
- Your efforts will be rewarded with an exclusive, never seen before Snow Imp costume only available to those who complete this event!
- You’ll also unlock a Christmas themed mesh net, meant for catching sprites, but it can also be used to catch implings or butterflies. Even Psykk bats in Raids are catchable with this net.
- All of these event items are reclaimable for 100,000 GP each if lost on death.
- You’ll have to work together with the fairy elves to find Santa and save Christmas this year.
- Christmas has arrived on Alora! Someone’s up to no good this year, and they’re doing their very best to ruin Christmas for everyone. The Town crier at home, near the Christmas tree, is asking for your help and will take you to the North Pole to investigate the disappearance of Santa further.
- Huge thanks to @uTorrent and (?) @Volta for writing most of the script for this year's event!
- Imbued God capes fix:
- The recently released imbued god capes from Mage arena II were not correctly giving their 2% Magic damage boost. This has been correct for all capes, as well as their Max cape counterparts.
- Completionist Monkey cape fix:
- The Completionist Monkey has now been updated to have the best stats of the Imbued god capes, as well as the 2% Magic damage boost as it is a composite of all of the best capes in the game.
- From +12 to +15 Magic defence
- From +10 to +15 Magic attack
- 2% Magic damage boost in both PvP and PvM
- The Completionist Monkey has now been updated to have the best stats of the Imbued god capes, as well as the 2% Magic damage boost as it is a composite of all of the best capes in the game.
- Change password command has been added.
- You can now type ::changepassword, ::changepass or ::changepw to be taken to the change password page on the forums directly from in-game.
- Report bug command added:
- You can now type ::reportbug in-game to be taken directly to the bug report section.
- Cape of Legends (Veteran cape):
- Players who have been around for more than a year can now claim an item of their own to show off their veteran status!
- As the requirements for forum veteran can be quite difficult to obtain even to some of our oldest players, this cape will provide players who don’t meet those requirements with an item to show off their achievement.
- As long as your account is 365 days old or more, Hans will be able to sell you a Cape of Legends for 2,500,000 GP.
- Speak to Hans in South-east Edgeville.
- If you die with the cape in the wilderness, you can recover it from the Lost Items manager for 250,000 GP.
- Players who have been around for more than a year can now claim an item of their own to show off their veteran status!
- Construction fix:
- Some players have noticed that sometimes pathfinding / following in houses could get very buggy. We’ve attempted to locate this problem and have pushed a patch that will hopefully resolve this issue once and for all and fix pathing within houses.
- Bloody key change:
- The world event which spawns a Bloody key in the wilderness every so often has had the following update applied:
- You can no longer loot the key if you are under level 57 combat.
- This only applies to the wilderness spawns, but not to key parts dropped by Crystal NPCs or by Revenants.
- The reasoning behind this is that players are heading into the wilderness with no risk on level 3 accounts to loot these keys, which doesn’t promote wilderness activity as was the intention of this update. Level 57 leaves plenty of room for pures to be able to loot the key as well.
- You can no longer loot the key if you are under level 57 combat.
- The world event which spawns a Bloody key in the wilderness every so often has had the following update applied:
- Twisted bow buff:
- Currently the Twisted bow is most useful within Raids, but limited in its use outside of raids.
- To combat this, we’ve boosted the PvM bonuses that this bow provides:
- Accuracy boosted by 20%
- Damage boosted by 15%
- To combat this, we’ve boosted the PvM bonuses that this bow provides:
- Currently the Twisted bow is most useful within Raids, but limited in its use outside of raids.
- Pest Control changes:
- You must now have at least 4 people in the Pest Control boat for the game to begin.
- Fixed a bug which would cause the Pest control game to get stuck with no players inside, and no new players able to enter.
- Miscellaneous:
- Fixed some bugs with the game engine which may cause lag over time.
- Karil’s top now has the correct 70 Ranged requirement.
- Jester scarves now equip to the correct slot.
- ::rules has been updated to the new rules thread created by @Lowkey
- A bug with the rune pouch has been fixed.
- Risk protection changes:
- Previously, you needed at least 1/5 of the wealth of your opponent to attack them. For example, if your opponent has 10m risk, you must have at least 2m to attack them.
- This has been cut in half, and you now only need 1m in the same scenario to attack the other player.
- Keep in mind that as long as you have over 7.5m worth of risk, you’ll always be able to attack any player.
- This has been cut in half, and you now only need 1m in the same scenario to attack the other player.
- Previously, you needed at least 1/5 of the wealth of your opponent to attack them. For example, if your opponent has 10m risk, you must have at least 2m to attack them.
- Christmas theme:
- Forum/website updates:
- The Uber userbar has been updated to better match the other user bars (Font / Color / Removed capitalization)
- Christmas updates:
- Alora’s logo is now Christmas themed.
- Big thanks to @Chase for his work on this, as well as the slogan on the homepage!
- The website will also forcibly be blue for the rest of the holiday season (rather than colour-changing).
- Snowflakes are now falling on all pages of Alora’s website!
- We know that some users have older computers that may lag with these snowflakes falling, so we’ve added a toggle button to the top right corner of all forum pages.
- Alora’s logo is now Christmas themed.
- Terms of Service update:
- Refreshed the TOS that was shown to newly registered members as there were some inconsistencies and errors within it.
- Staff updates:
- Staff members can now remove event NPCs by using a Holy wrench on them.
- This is useful in the case of badly spawned event NPCs (bad location or wrong NPC id) during server events.
- Staff members can now remove event NPCs by using a Holy wrench on them.
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 December 2nd/10th/22nd, 2017:
Promotions:
Elvemage jr has been promoted to Server Moderator
Hondenei has been promoted to Server Support
Hexza has been promoted to Server Support
HC Proxy has been promoted to Server Support
Resignations:
Demotions:
Poor Level 3 has been demoted from Server Support.
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
Greetings.
Diva: What song do you play most often?
Diva: What would you do if you won the lottery?
Diva: What's your favorite holiday and why?
Diva: What is something you think everyone should do at least once in their lives?
Diva: What is your biggest pet peeve?
Diva: If you could go back in time, what year would you travel to?
Diva: What's the longest you've gone without sleep (and why)?
Diva: What is your favorite meme?
Diva: Is there anything you want to get for Christmas?
Diva: Lastly, what are your New Year's resolutions for 2018?
Thank you for your answers, 
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Next on our list is Hondenei!
Greetings.
Diva: When people come to you for help, what do they usually want help with?
Hondenei: Anything, seriously. Sometimes I get questions like: what to put on my Domino's pizza? (double pepperoni with BBQ sauce ofc!).
I guess the most Alora related question is how to make money. I normally just answer 'by thieving' lol.
Diva: What are your two biggest pet peeves?
Hondenei: 1. When you are waiting on a train and the train arrives, while it is slowing down people will walk along with the train. Like, why would you do that? Just wait on your spot and a door will end up near you. FFS
2. I got 2 cats, and sometimes they like to claw my foot while I am asleep. Seriously, sometimes I am to afraid to even sleep when they are around, little devils..
Diva: How did you find out about Alora and how long have you been playing it?
Hondenei: I hadn't played Runescape in a while before I saw this ad about Alora and how it has raids content. Guess I was just bored, so I checked it out lol. And now we are here...
Diva: What is one of your accomplishments you're proud of?
Hondenei: Being the first to reach 200m hunter on Alora! People these days don't know the horror that was known as hunter in the old days.
Diva: Are you usually early or late?
Hondenei: I used to be always late and I hated that, so I tried to change this and now I am always early!
Diva: What’s the best thing that happened to you last week?
Hondenei: I had my very last test for my bachelor and I past it! So now I only have my internship left.
Diva: Where would you spend all your time if you could?
Hondenei: Last summer I had a small Techno/house festival that was on a boat. The sun was shining, had some drinks, music was good and out with my mates. If there was some place I would like to spend all my time - it was that place on that one boat, at that one festival.
Diva: What is your favorite meme?
Hondenei: You know those Deja'vu drifting memes? Whenever some one spins out and they start playing Deja'vu? Cracks me up every time. Like these ones LOL:
Diva: Is there anything you want to get for Christmas?
Hondenei: All I want for christmas is 1:1 exchange rates for mole skins to birds nests @SantaOmicron.
Diva: Lastly, what are your New Year's resolutions for 2018?
Hondenei: Getting my bachelors degree, and starting my masters degree! Oh and of course, becoming an admin on Alora!
Thanks Hondenei 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 December community awards event has ended!
Go to this link to see all the nominees of December:
http://www.alora.io/...y-award-results
Congrats to the winners, be sure to claim your badges from @Chase!
Community awards will return in January! Stay tuned.
This month, long-awaited Member of The Month contest was hosted as an experiment to see if everything goes smooth so it can be done monthly. We're happy to announce that a lot of players have participated in voting for the best player of the month on the poll found here: http://www.alora.io/...h-december-2017
The votes have been casted by the community & the top 3 players with the most votes have been picked in order to go through another vote within the staff team & pick the final winner!
Here are the results:
The winner of December's Member of the Month is....
Congratulations @
Be sure to keep an eye for next month's MOTM!
The poll will be posted and advertised for everyone to give their votes.
That concludes the end of this newspaper!
P.S. You can read our last newspaper by clicking HERE!
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Finally, we want to wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thank you for being supportive and sticking around. Hopefully 2018 will be another great year for Alora! See you soon!
- Alora Staff Team
