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Hello everyone, welcome to the newest edition of the Alora Newspaper!
This newspaper is a bit overdue, I decided I was going to change some things with the interviews
so it took a bit longer. Anyways, let's get started!
There has been an addition to the World Yell rule since the last newspaper.
14. World Yell
Members may not use world yell to advertise clan chats with the exception of the server clan chats such as Alora, Help, and Help1. Group activities are acceptable. This includes gambling chats, clan chats, etc. First offenders will receive a warning, followed by 24 hour mute, with the ending result being a 48 hour mute. If a member has been given direct permission by another staff member, they may disregard this rule.
Keep up to date with our rules & full list can be found by clicking HERE!
Since the last Newspaper there have been 2 updates. The first update was dropped on 05/13/2018,
and the second update was dropped on 27/05/2018.
The first update added the Daily Tasks, Arclight, PVP updates, and more!
Hotfixes (May 13th):
- Arclight fix:
- In addition to the previously affected creatures, the Arclight will now work on:
- Abyssal Sire
- Zamorakian GWD enemies:
- K’ril Tstusaroth
- Balfrug Kreeyath
- Tstanon Karlak
- Zakl’n Gritch
- In addition to the previously affected creatures, the Arclight will now work on:
- Daily tasks:
- Daily tasks are now available! (Thanks to
- Mr. Daily can be found in Edgeville bank, and he’ll tell you which tasks are available today.
- Features:
- 3 daily tasks, one easy, one medium, and one hard.
- These tasks are changed every 24 hours, based on UTC (server) time.
- Each task will give a set number of points, typically 3, 5, and 10 for easy, medium and hard respectively.
- Extreme Donators will receive an extra 1, 2, and 3 points for each task respectively.
- Legendary Donators will receive an extra 2, 3, and 4 points for each task respectively.
- Uber donators will receive an extra 3, 4, and 5 points for each task respectively.
- 3 daily tasks, one easy, one medium, and one hard.
- What types of rewards are available?
- General:
- Bloody key, Crystal key
- Anglerfish, super combat potions
- Looting bag
- Shayzien outfit (tier 5)
- Mask of balance
- Dark totem
- New items:
- Prospector outfit — provides 2.5% Mining experience when full set is worn.
- Dwarven helmet — Highest crush bonus for a helmet in-game
- Arclight — Extremely powerful sword against demons (provides 70% accuracy and damage boost, but requires charges from Ancient shards)
- Achievement armour set 1
- Achievement armour set 2
- Western banner 1
- Western banner 2
- General:
- Features:
- Mr. Daily can be found in Edgeville bank, and he’ll tell you which tasks are available today.
- Daily tasks are now available! (Thanks to
- PVP/Combat Updates:
- Bloody key changes:
- Bloody keys can now only be picked up by players who are at least level 57.
- Bloody keys can now be dropped upon killing your Bounty target!
- The rate at which these keys drop is based on your Wilderness level as well as your target’s risked wealth.
- Guidelines for wilderness levels:
- 50 Wildy: 2.5x as likely
- 35 Wildy: 1.5x as likely
- 20 Wildy: 1.25x as likely
- 10 Wildy: 1.15x as likely
- The majority of the influence for risked wealth is in the <100M range, meaning that if the target’s risked wealth is greater than 100M (eg. 2b) it will have essentially the same chance as someone who has 100m assuming the same wilderness level.
- Hotzones:
- The hotzone feature has been revamped! Hotzones are now rotating spots where you will earn double PKP. The zone will rotate every 30 minutes and will always be different than the last one.
- Possible zones:
- Edgeville
- Mage bank
- East dragons
- Dark castle
- Demonic ruins
- You can see whether you’re in a Hotzone or not in the bottom right corner, and you can also view the current hotzone in your quest tab.
- You’ll also receive notifications globally when the hotzone changes.
- Bloody key changes:
- The Arclight is now available!
- Available in the Daily tasks reward shop
- This sword, requiring level 75 Attack, is extremely effective against demon type monsters with it’s 70% increase in accuracy and damage against them, making it more effective than the Abyssal tentacle. The affected creatures include:
- Imps
- Lesser demon, Greater demon, Black demon
- Abyssal demon
- Nechryael, Nechryarch
- Demonic gorilla
- Skotizo
- Porazdir (Zamorak boss from world bosses event)
- Charges:
- This sword holds charges (up to 10,000) for its effect. Charges can be added by using Ancient shards on the sword, every 3 providing 1,000 charges. If there are no more charges, the sword does not provide any accuracy or damage bonus against demon type monsters.
- Untradable reclaim:
- Upon death, this item will go to the Lost items manager and can be reclaimed for 500,000 GP.
If you want to check out the entire update list, click HERE!
The second update added Chaos Altar, Client overlays, Daily Task streaks and more!
Make sure you update your client launcher before playing! (alora.jar) Read here for more details:
https://www.alora.io...-your-launcher/
- Daily task changes:
- Weekend bonuses:
- Event managers can now enable bonus Daily Task points on the weekends! This will give you up to 2x as many points for completing Daily task.
- Daily task streaks:
- Every day you fully complete your daily tasks will now count towards your streak! You have to complete every day’s set of 3 tasks to keep your streak going, otherwise it’ll reset back to 0 if you miss a day.
- By completing all 3 tasks every day and building your streak, you can earn streak bonus points (only when fully completing the tasks of that day):
- First day ~ 0 bonus points (starting the streak)
- Second day ~ 2 bonus points
- Third day ~ 4 bonus points
- Fourth day ~ 6 bonus points
- Fifth day ~ 8 bonus points
- Sixth day ~ 11 bonus points
- Seventh day ~ 15 bonus points
- ALL days after 7 days (no limit): 15 bonus points
- Fixed the following tasks:
- Fish 250 Manta ray
- Cook 250 Manta ray
- Cook 100 Monkfish
- Defeat TzTok-Jad
- Defeat TzKal-Zuk
- Complete 1 (or 3) Wilderness Slayer tasks
- Was completing the task after 1 or 3 kills, not 1 or 3 tasks.
- Complete 6 Raids
- This one was working, but only required 5 Raids. We’ve decided to leave it at 5 Raids as this is difficult enough, and have renamed the description to avoid confusion.
- Fixed the following tasks:
- Weekend bonuses:
- Wilderness updates:
- The Chaos Altar (level 38 wilderness):
- The altar in this temple will now be highly useful to players due to the following perks:
- 1. It will provide the same bonus experience as a Gilded altar (POH) with two incense burners lit (the maximum experience in-game)
- 2. There is a 50% chance of the Altar not consuming the bones that are sacrificed to it. This means that, in the long run, you’ll only need to use half the bones that you normally would to level up.
- 3. The Elder Chaos druid immediately outside the temple can unnote your bones (and only bones!) for 200 GP each.
- The altar in this temple will now be highly useful to players due to the following perks:
- PKP Exchange changes:
- The PKP shop prices were too low following a recent update and introduced too many items into the economy, so the prices in the shop have been increased by 25%.
- The Chaos Altar (level 38 wilderness):
- Slayer updates:
- Slayer reward changes:
- Ammo mould has been reduced in price from 15,000 Slayer points to 7,500 Slayer points.
- Superior Slayer Encounter drops:
- Some of the Superior Encounters were dropping bars (sometimes up to 15) that were un-noted. These should all drop noted now if they are noted on OSRS. Affected monsters include:
- Marble gargoyle
- Night beast
- Some of the Superior Encounters were dropping bars (sometimes up to 15) that were un-noted. These should all drop noted now if they are noted on OSRS. Affected monsters include:
- Slayer reward changes:
- Boss drop table patch: (Thanks to
- Callisto
- 1 guaranteed drop
- Venenatis
- Vet’ion
- Crazy archaeologist
- Chaos fanatic
- Chaos elemental
- King black dragon
- Cerberus
- Lizardman shaman
- Corporeal beast
- Kree’arra
- K’ril Tsutsaroth
- Commander Zilyana
- General Graardor
- Kraken
- Giant mole
- Vorkath
- 2 guaranteed drops
- Kalphite queen
- Zulrah
- Callisto
- Client updates:
- Rank icons in Private messages:
- Previously, when someone PMed you, the only icons that would appear were Moderators and Administrators. After this update, you’ll be able to see icons for all of the following ranks:
- Ironmen:
- Regular, elite, hardcore, ultimate
- Classic players
- Server support
- Ironmen:
- We’ve chosen to leave out donator icons at the moment, simply because it isn’t necessary to display them over PM (whereas it can be useful to know that the person you are speaking with is Server support, or even an Ironman)
- Previously, when someone PMed you, the only icons that would appear were Moderators and Administrators. After this update, you’ll be able to see icons for all of the following ranks:
- Item names overlay:
- You can now choose to have item names displayed over ground items!
- This setting is completely optional, and you can find the toggle for it in the settings tab. It is turned off by default.
- It will show items that have a High alchemy value of more than 50,000 GP in a special colour.
- You can now choose to have item names displayed over ground items!
- Bank tab value overlay:
- A new toggle has been added to show the value of your bank tabs!
- Notes:
- If on the main tab, the entire value of your bank will be presented.
- If on any other tab, only the value of that tab will be presented.
- If on the main tab, the entire value of your bank will be presented.
- Untradable items do not add to the total value of any tab.
- The value used will be the highest of the exchange price or the high alch price.
- IMPORTANT: Please note that this is often not the exact market value, but a rough estimate based on previous trading post prices.
- Notes:
- You can toggle this setting in the settings tab.
- A new toggle has been added to show the value of your bank tabs!
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue with some users (on 32-bit Windows OS) not being able to enter HD after downloading the client (or re-installing it). It will now work properly, but if you were previously affected please delete the entire (C:/aloracache/) folder and re-launch the alora.jar client.(Thanks to
- Fixed an issue with some users (on 32-bit Windows OS) not being able to enter HD after downloading the client (or re-installing it). It will now work properly, but if you were previously affected please delete the entire (C:/aloracache/) folder and re-launch the alora.jar client.(Thanks to
- Rank icons in Private messages:
If you want to check out the entire update list, click HERE!
Many thanks to Omicron for all of these updates and fixes!
We currently have a Clan Tournament with top prize being $250 being hosted by our Event Manager
There are many more prizes to be won as well, go sign up NOW! Click the link HERE!
Over the last month there have been some changes to the staff team, you can see them below:
Staff updates as of May 5th, 12th, 19th, and 31st:
Promotions;
Xuf has been promoted to Administrator.
king purple has been promoted to Global Moderator.
hsoJ has been promoted to Global Moderator.
Draisaitl has been promoted to Global Moderator.
Pkdealer has been promoted to Global Moderator.
To gain has been promoted to Server Moderator.
Marushin has been promoted to Server Moderator.
Kaamea has been promoted to Server Moderator.
EIM Hentai has been promoted to Server Support.
Dylain
has been promoted to Server Support.
Resignations;
Thorr2 has resigned from Administrator.
Another Cow has resigned from Global Moderator.
Hondenei has resigned from Server Moderator.
Demotions;
Nobody has been demoted! Woohoo!
For more info on the Staff updates, click HERE!
I have decided to interview two other members of our staff team! I hope you enjoy hearing what they had to say :)
The first person I interviewed was Marushin!
Greetings.
Xuf: If you were going on death row, what would be your last meal?
Marushin: Anything with pasta I LOVE PASTA
Xuf: What is your favourite pass-time outside of slaving on Alora?
Marushin: Slaving my ass at work. Other then that prob going out for dinner with friends and family and enjoy the time with them.
Xuf: If you could have anything for no money right now what would it be?
Marushin: Xrapierx unbanned kappa
Xuf: What is your favourite and least favourite colour, and why?
Marushin: Blue is my favourite to be specific cyan I just love the colour
Xuf: What is something extremely important to have that you can’t acquire for money?
Marushin: Everything that my mother has done for me.
Xuf: What is your favourite genre of music?
Marushin: Definitely rap my oldest brother showed me it when I was around 6years and I still love it.
Xuf: What are your plans for the weekend?
Marushin: Work work and more work.
Xuf: If you could be any animal in the world what would you be?
Marushin: Prob a dog always wanted to know what it would feel like to be a dog. To have that "dog life".
Xuf: What was the last thing you watched on TV/Netflix/Streamed and why did you watch it?
Marushin: That would be Deadpool 2.
Thank you for taking the time to answer those questions Marushin, I really appreciate it!
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Next on our list is
Greetings.
Xuf: What kind of character were you in High-School?
Xuf: What is the funniest/most memorable thing that has happened to you recently?
Xuf: If we were to hire you on our Alora Team as a Tech Support would you be okay with a cubicle near a window? Also what would you have on your desk?
Xuf: What are you known for by your friends/family?
Xuf: How would you convince someone who doesn’t want to do something, to do it?
Xuf: What is something that would be complicated for most people but you find easy?
Xuf: Where would you go in a Time Machine?
Xuf: If you could sit down with anyone in time and interview them (dead or alive) who would it be and why?
Xuf: If you won $10 Million from the lottery, what would you do with the money?
Thanks
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Next on our list is
Greetings.
Xuf: Say you were dead, what would your close ones say about you?
Xuf: What song relates to you the most?
Xuf: What is your favourite piece of clothing you have?
Xuf: If you could go to a fictional place, where would it be?
Xuf: What job would you be amazing at if it were a job?
Xuf: If you could choose any skill to master, what would it be?
Xuf: Are you usually early or late?
Xuf: What do you wish you knew more about?
Xuf: What is a perfect weekend for you (no BXP)?
Xuf: What is the farthest you’ve ever been from home?
Thanks
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 May MOTM is....
Congratulations
Contact
Stay tuned until the next month when voting takes place!
The May Community awards are out now!
Visit this link to check it out;
https://www.alora.io...-award-results/
That concludes the end of this newspaper!
Read our last newspaper by clicking HERE!
I like the interviews alot :)
