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Good evening gamers!

It's been a while since the last staff update, so lets get this going. If you are interested in joining the staff team, make sure to apply here: https://www.alora.io...f-applications/

Promotions:

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Ruwk has been promoted to Forum Moderator.

Max has been promoted to Server Support.

Secondary ranks:

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Demotions:

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Resignations:

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Thank you, and see you soon  

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Hello everyone,

With the recent release of our fifth Alora Leagues tournament, we're really excited to hear everyone's feedback about the mode, what they think about it, and how we can improve your experience. We'd like to hear any feedback you have regarding changes that can be made in any and all ways to improve the League. This includes changes to tasks (e.g. reduce 25 Master clue collection log slots to 15), as well as even adding new tasks that would be a fun challenge for players.

We're also looking to hear your feedback about balancing relics that may be underpowered or overpowered. We've expanded this league to include a new region (Tirannwn), a few relics from the recent edition of Raging Echoes League, and lastly the new Echo bosses.

We want the experience to be as enjoyable as possible, so if there is any content in these areas that is missing to improve the game mode, let us know and we'll implement it given that it can be done within a reasonable time frame.

We hope you're enjoying our fifth Leagues iteration, and we're looking forward to hearing your feedback!

Best Regards,

It'll work the same way as old GIM vote book redeeming on release, but on a shorter cooldown.

Gim release:

• Experience bonuses:
  • and Vote books can only be opened once every 12 hours.

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Welcome to the February-March edition of the Alora times.

I hope this year is off to a good start for you all.  If you missed it, our next Leagues event is right around the corner! We're excited to announce that we're hosting our 5th Alora League in less than two weeks, so make sure to mark the date on your calendar! Now lets see what exciting stuff has been happening on Alora for the past two months.

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Bonus Schedule For March

March Vote Competition [March 1st - March 21st]

Moons of Peril, ToB Buff, Amoxliatl & North Varlamore Expansion, Barehanded Fishing & more!

Royal Titans, Scurrius, Obor, Bryophyta, Colossal Wyrm + Varrock Agility & more!

Development Blog #20: Leagues 5 - Raging Echoes

Alora Leagues 5.0 (Launching Mar 21st) In-game & IRL Prizes!

If you want to check out our past updates, click here.

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Alora's Official Rules can be found here.

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The latest Staff Changes are as follows:

To see our past Staff Updates, click here.

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Here we honour our fallen comrades from the last month and there were a few of them! We wish them the best on their new Ironman journeys and better luck next time!

Stay up to date with some of our community members' recent Goals & Achievements: 

1000AtaTime

1000AtaTime - challenge account I’m going to regret

Selenagomez

SG2's Ice Bingo Recap

Cuiii

The Grind.

Muphin

Ivy's Goals and Achievements

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make a topic in our Goals and Achievements section or send your achievement in the #newspaper_submissions channel in Alora Discord to be featured here!

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The winners of January & February MOTM's are...

Danny & Variant !

Congratulations! You have stood out in the eyes of the Alora community. Thank you for being great members here on Alora and enjoy your rewards. :)

The link to the Member of the Month thread can be found here.

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To add to the above, we don't really want to add custom items like that, which don't exist on OSRS at this time.

Hello everyone,

We have been eagerly waiting to reveal something we have been working on recently, and we feel like now is the right time to reveal it to you all, which is the fifth edition of Leagues!

For those unfamiliar with the idea of Leagues, it's quite simple. You make a new account that is locked to the island of Kourend and your goal is to complete as many tasks as you can in 6 weeks. As you complete more and more tasks, you will be given the option to unlock other regions. Achieving certain point milestones allows you to unlock Relics, which are overpowered boosts to your account.

Now lets run through all of this in a little more detail so you can familiarize yourself with what's to come.

Regions

This Leagues, we're spicing things up, rather than unlocking all the regions as you unlock new relics, you will now be able to choose 5/6 available regions as you complete tasks and progress, forging your own path.

You will begin in the Kourend region, with it automatically unlocked, and be able to unlock the Morytania, Varlamore, Karamja, Desert, and Tirannwn regions.

• Second region unlock:
  • 1 task completion required
• Third region unlock:
  • 90 total task completions required.
• Fourth region unlock:
  • 200 total task completions required.
• Fifth region unlock:
  • 400 total task completions required 

Unlocking the Morytania region will provide players with a Drakan’s medallion.

Raids Megarare Vouchers

This league, when you complete the Theatre of Blood, Chambers of Xeric, and Tombs of Amascut, instead of obtaining the corresponding mega-rare item (Scythe of Vitur, Twisted Bow, Tumeken’s Shadow), you will instead obtain a voucher than you use to claim any of the 3 mega-rare items.

This is great for people that enjoy doing a specific raid but would love to experience a megarare from another raid.

Echo Bosses

Each region has a specific boss that players will be able to take on in a harder echo variant.

Players can do so by killing the normal boss, and obtaining the corresponding echo orb to challenge the echo boss, similar to the Awakener's orb in the main game.

Rewards

• Sol Heredit:
  • Sol heredit (echo) will drop the Sunlit Bracers and the Sunlight Spear:
    • Sunlit bracers:
      • These bracers, when equipped, will double any base healing received from sources such as the amulet of blood fury, blood spells, guthan’s, etc..
      • The effect does not double modifiers, such as the Zuriel’s staff/bloodbark effect on blood spells.
    • Sunlight Spear:
      • This is a powerful spear that can charge up special attack stacks, one for every time the players attacks with it, up to 20 stacks.
      • It has a unique special attack that consumes 7 stacks, attacking all enemies in a 3x3 area with typeless damage.
      • The damage is also boosted by 3% for every prayer bonus the player has.

• Kalphite Queen:
  • Kalphite Queen (echo) will drop the Drygore Blowpipe.
    • Drygore Blowpipe:
      • This is slightly weaker version of the toxic blowpipe, but has no special attack and does not require zulrah’s scales to use.

• Grotesque Guardians:
  • Grotesque Guardians (echo) will drop Gloves of the Damned.
    • Gloves of the Damned:
      • These have the same stats as Barrow’s gloves, but also apply the effect of the Amulet of the Damned.

• Corrupted Hunllef:
  • Corrupted Hunllef (echo) will drop the Crystal Blessing.
    • Crystal Blessing:
      • This blessing provides +5 prayer bonus, and allows all melee weapons to take advantage of the accuracy/damage bonus of crystal armour.

• Hespori:
  • Hespori (echo) will drop a Nature's Reprisal.
    • Nature’s Reprisal:
      • This is a very powerful weapon that can attack with magic/range/melee, similar to salamanders, but more powerful, having an attack range of 7 tiles.

Relics

Relics are powerful buffs which are unlocked with League Points. Relics offer bonuses that boost actions related to gathering, processing, teleportation, and combat. Upon completing the league tutorial, players are presented with the choice of their first relic between three. Additional relics can be unlocked as players reach certain point thresholds and unlock new tiers.

We thought it would be a good idea to show you all of the relics so that you can plan ahead, so lets dive right into it!

Tier 1:

Tier 2:

Tier 3:

Tier 4:

Tier 5:

Tier 6:

Tier 7:

We will have another thread posted soon, which will outline general information and showcase some of the in-game & irl prizes.

We hope to see you enjoy our fifth edition of leagues on the 21st of March!

Wishing you a great week,

Alora Staff Team

Not a fan of this to be honest, no support.

Been waiting for something like this for a while, glad to see it finally being made and a big thank you to @Pase

I would much rather if we reworked/added some donator perks, rather than a donator zone for higher donator ranks, not really a fan of those to be honest.

No support.

Seems to work fine, and you can buy the keys so it makes the grind easier. No support.

 

1. A couple of months back, I suggested that the ore veins in Motherlode Mine should take longer to deplete, similar to how they do in OSRS. I suggested 23-27 seconds for the lower level and 36-40 seconds for the upper level. Omicron accepted the suggestion but decided to keep the lower level depletion time at about 10 seconds and adjusted the upper level to 24-36 seconds. I'm bringing it up again, hoping Omicron can align the depletion times for both levels with the original game.

Support.

 

2. More Motherlode Mine QoL suggestions:

• Make it so players are warned when mining ore veins with a full sack at the Motherlode Mine.
• Support.
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• Have coal provide XP when harvested from pay dirt.
• Support.
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• Change the Mining level required to unlock the upper level from 72 to 57.
• Support.
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• Add bonus MLM nuggets to the vote book.
• Support.

3. The Smithing interface should remember the last item crafted, and can be selected with a space bar if all the required materials are currently held.

Support.

 

4. Combining the mining gloves and superior mining gloves currently costs 60 unidentified minerals. Adjust it to align with OSRS (40 unidentified minerals).

Support.

 

5. Reduce the failure rate when pickpocketing Heroes and add a rare chance for Heroes to provide elite clue scrolls from successful pickpockets.

Support.

 

6. Bump up the XP from the final jump gap at the Ardougne Rooftop Agility Course from 529 to 625, just like it is in OSRS.

Support.

 

7. In OSRS, Butlers can take logs to the sawmill for conversion into planks. It would be great if this feature existed in Alora.

Support.

 

8. Add teleport Dark Mage previous to the menu entry swapper.

Already possible.

 

9. The left-click/tap option on runecrafting pouches should dynamically swap between “Fill” and “Empty”, depending on our status and what we have in our Inventory.

Not experienced with mobile. If it helps, sure.

 

10. Grimy herbs should begin to automatically clean themselves after cleaning the first one in your inventory.

Support.

 

11. Increase the number of points awarded for healing Pyromancers from 30 to 75 at Wintertodt.

A wintertodt rework to match OSRS would be nice.

 

12. Introduce the new interface that lets players 'make-x' for fletching darts, along with a toggle option in the menu settings. Keep in mind, though, that this method isn’t as fast as fletching darts manually.

Not really a fan, neutral.

 

13. The colossal pouch should now be usable from level 25 Runecrafting and its capacity should scale with our Runecrafting level:

• Level 25 should have a capacity of 8.
• Level 50 should have a capacity of 16.
• Level 75 should have a capacity of 27.
• Level 85 should have a capacity of 40.
• Support.

 

Support to a store revamp, but mixed on some of the stuff you suggested.

 

I think it's time we revamp the store, it's extremely out dated, and some items can seem like a scam at the current prices. Ideas listed below.

 

Also, please understand, ALL of the items I'm suggesting to add for 'normies' are already able to be purchased via custom donations (even if it seems p2w, its already like this sadly), while the cosmetic items i suggested for ironmen (3rd age included) can ALREADY be purchased on ironmen as well via custom donations, this just takes some of those requests off Omicron's back.

 

Items to be removed:

• Cow outfit
• Gnome scarf
• Yes

 

Item Price Change: 

• Crystal key- from 10 tokens to 4
• No
• Dragon Warhammer: from 600 tokens to 150
• No
• Armadyl/Saradomin godswords: from 350/300 to 100
• Yes
• Abyssal whip: from 45 to 20
• No
• Toxic staff of the dead: from 185 to 50
• Yes
• Ancient wyvern shield: from 600 tokens to 250
• Yes
• Barrows sets: from 75 tokens to 20
• No
• Prayer Scroll: from 350 tokens to 60
• No

Items to add (including ironmen)

• Booster Pack (2 drop, 1 pet, 1 raid): 40 tokens
• No
• Scroll of imbueing (removable from 1 item to imbue another like osrs): 300 tokens
• No
• Super Cosmetic Box: 2,000 tokens (allows you to pick a cosmetic item from a list of items of your choice, preferably from the ;;customs list that range from $100-$150 -excludes 3rd age-)
• Neutral
• Ultimate Cosmetic Box: 5,500 tokens (allows you to pick cosmetic costumes like santa, anti-santa, clown, druidic, etc)
• No
• 3rd age equipment box: 2,500 tokens (allows you to pick a 3rd age item of your choice from a pop up interface)
• No
• 3rd age weapon box: 3,500 tokens (allows you to pick one of the 3 3rd age weapons)
• No
• Rainbow Phat: 10,500 tokens (same cost as phat set)
• What's the point? Just buy the phat set and combine it.
• Silver Phat: 3,500 tokens
• Yes
• Ring of Levitation: 10,000 tokens
• Yes
• Flying Carpet: 10,000 tokens
• Yes
• Golden Coffin: 5,000 tokens
• No.
• Graceful set: 250 tokens (already can "buy" with dark dye, and reselling to grace's shop, just a different method)
• No.
• Group name change ticket: 250 tokens
• Yes.
• Wise Old Man's Staff: 10,000 tokens
• Yes.

Items to add (excluding ironmen)

• Ancient blood ornament kit: 7,500 tokens
• 100% no.
• Infernal cape: 1,500 tokens
• 100% no.
• Dizana's Quiver: 1,500 tokens
• 100% no.
• Enhanced Crystal Key: 25 tokens
• 100% no.
• Thread of Elidinis: 500 tokens
• 100% no.
• Mage Arena 2 capes: 500 tokens each
• 100% no.
• Holy/Sanguine orn kits: 5,000 tokens each
• 100% no.
• Keris crystal set: 3,000 tokens
• 100% no.

 

Support to kc announcements, seems like an oversight.

No to the pet thing, or else you'd have to do them for every pet, similar to the bad luck mitigation system from Runescape 3.

With all due respect, I don't think you realise the amount of time and effort required to add something like this. It's literally less than 1 hours work to add it. You're just copy pasting UIM, but making it so that if you die anywhere, you lose the rank, same as HCGIM. This isn't some 2000 hour workload that will have Omicron scratching his head. It's all there, simple copy+paste.

 

 

Is this an assumption, or do you know for sure it’s under an hours worth of dev time?

I don't know for sure. I'm basing it off of how fast Omicron was implementing stuff behind the scenes. If it took him longer than 3 hours to add, I would be disappointed.

Versus a UIM game mode where you can't die?
- affects 10%, 25%, or at most 50% of the Alora playerbase 
If we were adding content based on how much people it affects, we'd not add half the content to the game, including Realism. 
I still think it’s a fair point. Updates have been slow, so the more we can add that effects everyone in a positive way would be more beneficial than adding dead content that a handful would try for a couple weeks.

I wouldn't say slow. An update every month or 2 isn't that bad. Sure, it could be faster.

I don't agree with your argument that focusing on stuff that benefits more players would be better. You're making it seem like Omicron has limited access to his computer or something. If its dead content, I'm shivering thinking about your thoughts on HCGIM, Realism, Mixology, Nightmare, etc.

Questions regarding HCUIM
- How are you supposed to use zulrah/nightmare storage?
You don't use storage, that's the point of HCUIM. If you want weird workarounds to use a mini bank, go play normal ironman. When UIM was first added to OSRS, these storages didn't exist, but over the years it has become a lot easier, hence the HCUIM suggestion.
If OSRS is intending to make it easier this way, then it’s for a reason. I think it’s fine we’re following what OSRS does, and if players want to play the way it was made from the beginning, nothing is stopping them from doing so.

They didn't add these storages specifically to make it easier for UIM. Storages were added because OSRS needed a money sink, as well as combating the world ddosing that was happening at the time, which caused many players to lose their items. UIM took advantage of this mechanic.

And sure, players can play the way it was made from the beginning, but making it hardcore means you have 1 life, which is fun, if you've played HCGIM or HC you would understand.

- Is the PoH storage mechanic "can store individual pieces, but cannot withdraw them until the full set is obtained" in play?
Yes, I'd hope so.
This definitely shouldn’t be a thing, not only was this just recently introduced, but you’re asking for this “purist” form of UIM while still wanting this scapegoat. I don’t think you should use storages in your poh at all, but if you can, it definitely should require full sets, not this easy mode 1 item at a time stuff.

Think you misunderstood. I'm saying yes to "cant take out stuff until you have a full set". Sure, the costume room might be a little lame gameplay wise for UIM, but it is what it is.

- Maybe for a 2 week competition this would be fun, but in terms of long term benefit -> I don't think it's worth 
Are you referring to the game mode itself? If so, I believe it would be very beneficial to add. I don't think many servers have HCUIM so that would be appealing for those that play it.
I feel like many servers don’t have it cuz everyone knows it’d be dead content. Like you said an hours dev time, so why wouldn’t other servers do it just to be “the first”? Because it wouldn’t be good..

Or maybe they are preoccupied with other updates. We have been around for 8 years now and have loads of stuff from OSRS added, while other servers might be a bit newer and chasing other updates. I disagree with your last sentence, and I'll leave it at that.

- If OSRS announces that they're adding HCUIM -> I would support this 
If we don't include normal/classic/realism modes, half of our game modes were before OSRS, so I'm not really seeing what you're implying.
Part of the decluttering suggestion I made, condense these “game modes” and just let players pick their xp multipliers when making their accounts, but it gets complicated and I get why we don’t do that after the fact. Regardless here we are.

I'm sure most of us are adults here, if you're getting overwhelmed with too many game modes on login, I don't know what to say. Different exp modes and stuff would be cool, but its probably quite a bit of work.