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Hello and welcome back to another exciting edition of the Alora Newspaper!
We had some pretty awesome updates this week and I must appreciate Omicron on all his hard work.
Combat/wilderness changes:
We've reworked the way the formula which determines whether you will hit or not works, The formulas overall were inaccurate and have been tweaked to be more similar to OSRS. This includes special attack accuracy which has also been reworked.
PVP/Wilderness updates:
Vengeance timer fixed(sometimes it would not appear client-sided)
Fixed bonus PKP on wrong days
Ruby bolts (e) effect fixed:
Ballista bonuses changed to match latest on OSRS
Miscellaneous:
Fixed Guthix battle mage animations
Fixed broken Dragon chainbody drops
Fixed experience boosts from Karamja gloves and the Ardougne cape(and max cape)
Banking Palm tree seeds will no longer turn them into Calquat tree seeds
Tool leprechaun added to South Falador farming patch
Fixed size of potion options in herblore interface
Removed tags from clan chat text(Eg. <col=> or <img=>)
Thieving NPC now walks around
Fixed herblore inventory refreshing
Amulet of glory can now teleport you to Draynor Village
Time for global item respawn(eg. Blue dragon scales, snape grass, etc) reduced from 55 seconds to 30 seconds
Rooftop Agility added:
Seers village rooftop: Level 60 agility required
30% chance to obtain 1-3 marks of grace per lap
Ardougne rooftops: Level 90 agility required
50% chance to obtain 3-5 marks of grace per lap
Mountain daughter quest added:
Speak to Hamal the Chieftain in Draynor village to fight against the Kendal
Unlock his shop to view:
Bearhead
Proselyte gear packages
Gambling
Mithril seeds added to the webshop.
The "Gamble" clan chat has been created. Ranks will be added soon.
Christmas updates:
Some of your pets and certain bosses have received a festive makeover for the holidays!
Falador has been struck by a snow storm! The town crier in Edgeville will notify players that their assistance is required in Falador!
Santa's factory has shut down due to an infestation of pests. Speak to Carol in Falador to help out!
There were not any rule updates this week in alora, stay tuned for next week!
There were a couple of changes to the staff team this week.
The following promotions happened.
Thunder has been promoted to server mod.
Udead has been promoted to server support.
Unfortunetly we also saw one of our staff members go.
As always it's time to announce he's this weeks Player Of the Week. This player has been pretty helpful these past few days and has shown commitement to the server. We'd like to congradulate Mewtwo on becoming this week's player of the week.
The Interview process as been changed. Strato has Volunteered to do the interviews for the newspaper from now on. This week he interviews Elvemage & Omicron
Elvemage's Interview
Strato: You've proven yourself worthy of every staff position you've ever held in Alora, what is the #1 advice you can give to non-staff members who have been applying for the team?
Elvemage: The most important advice I can give about being a staff member is that you've got to understand the need of the player.
The conversation between a regular player and a staff member has to be effective.
Let him know you're taking the question seriously even if the question is silly.
This will make the indivual happy after you helped him out and that's all we need as a crew.
Strato: If there was one thing you could improve about yourself, what would it be, and why?
Elvemage: I'm taking my postion very seriously. I also know I could improve myself in many ways. I feel I need to focus more on prioritizing things.
With the ever-increasing player base, I get an extremely large amount of PMs every day, from something extremely silly, to something of utmost importance. I will try my best in
prioritizing the issues so that everything gets handled the right way.
Strato: You clearly dedicate a lot of time in contributing towards Alora, What do you get in return?
Elvemage: I do not think of my role as a moderator, a chore at all. It is the simple joy of helping out the server overall that motivates me. I do what I love and love what I do.
Omicron's Interview
Strato: As the founder and developer, where do you see Alora in the near future?
Omicron: Alora has always exceeded my expectations, and we've grown and flourished more than I had anticipated in the past month and a half. Taking that into consideration, I could only expect the same for the future. I intend to do my best to provide the most enjoyable experience for the community, as well as future prospective members.
Strato: You've seen some good days, as well as some rough ones. What keeps you going?
Omicron: Some days are definitely better than others! There have been days where it seems that everything that can go wrong has gone wrong, but we've always managed to persevere and come back even stronger. I could not do it without the support of the community though, otherwise I'd feel like I'm in this all alone. I can't express how crucial the staff team's support has been, especially during those bad days where they all work together to keep things in order. When things aren't going great and I get discouraged, I also remind myself of how many people in the community love and enjoy playing Alora, and how I'd be letting them down if I didn't give it my all.
Strato: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be, and why?
Omicron: One of my not-so-great qualities is that I'm not always as calm and collected as I could be during stressful situations, and consequently I tend to not think rationally. Tying in with the previous answer, there are times when I could become irritable if I'm stressed out, which isn't good at all.
Special thanks to Strato for helping me this week!
Thanks for reading this week's newspaper. Feel free fre suggest any additions for next week's edition on a post below. :)
