A UIM

What is your suggestion?:
Create a "high ping status" account modifer which adjusts certain content for players with extremely high ping.

As some of the Alora communtiy live far from the US based server, myself for one, we have to deal with very poor ping which can severely impact our ability to complete some content. After discussing with Omicron he believes it may be possible to create an account modifer, which could be applied for via the forums and granted upon proving your location. This modifer could for example, delay the attacks of specific npcs by 1,2,3 ticks to compensate for the slower connection.
I would assume this could not function in team content as people would be attacking on different ticks, but the majority of the content is solo anyway.

See below for reference, this first clip shows my non VPN ping which averages 430, but spikes to over 530 at times.
Given this is almost a full tick, it can create issues like this during the memory puzzle at Akkha where one of the tiles just doesnt light up, and leaves you guessing where to move.



This clip shows on VPN, which brings the average down to 220 or so, + 12ms to the VPN itself, making 240 or so. While this is of course better than 4-500+, there are still crazy lag spikes during fast content.



This also doesnt always fix the puzzle lagging and missing a tile lighting up

This clip just shows general movement at home, notice at 30s the blow pipe switch is a full tick behind.



And heres a clip of the Manticore flicks in Colosseum, you'll notice general slow prayer swaps & at 45s it spikes and all 3 prayers end up activated.

https://vimeo.com/1015642071?share=copy#t=0

Now dont get me wrong, I'm not saying im the best raider / pvmer in the world, but I can do 450 toa, colo (in my exact gear setup), inferno etc, but I and other high ping players are definitely at a disadvantage due to poor ping.

I suggest the following, by no means the only solution so please give other opinions.

Colosseum - Receives a 2 tick attack delay
COX - Olm falling rock special receives 1 tick delay
TOA - Akkha memory puzzle 1 tick delay, white orbs at final stage slower?
TOA - Baba ground slam 1 tick delay
TOA - P3 Warden floor slam 1 tick delay between change, if 'Insanity' invo is active 2 ticks, & phantom bosses 2 tick delay


 

Is this in OSRS?:
No

Has this suggestion been accepted already?:
No

How would this benefit Alora?:
It would allow players from high ping locations to have a better chance at completing end game content, that requires fast actions / gear changes that heavily depend on good ping.

What is your suggestion?:
When a player disconnects inside a raid, have it save their location and if logged back in within 60 minutes, load them back into the raid as they were.
If part way through, have it place them back in the staging room to enable quick leaving via the stairs if wanting to quit rather than continue.

Is this in OSRS?:
No

Has this suggestion been accepted already?:
Not that im aware

How would this benefit Alora?:
Disconnecting isnt nearly as big an issue in osrs as it is here, which makes sense why its not a feature there, but given the frequence of disconnects across the alora playerbase i think it would be a great addition. Theres nothing worse than getting to a raid boss (which is where I seem to DC the most for some reason) only to disconnect and loose the last 30 mins of progress, let alone any boosters used.
I know this is a feature other servers have so it would be great to see it here as well.

What is your suggestion?: 
Add the Dizana Max Cape to the POH storage
 

Is this in OSRS?:
No
 

Has this suggestion been accepted already?:
No
 

How would this benefit Alora?:
Another UIM specific QOL change, but would allow the max cape to be stored somewhere, as I'm not aware of it going to item retrieval on death? If this isn't the case, then if / when any UIM is able to get the max cape variant of the quiver, it can't be stored anywhere outside of the Nightmare 'deathbank'

What is your suggestion?:
Add the ability to clear / hide private chat on mobile

Is this in OSRS?:
Yes

Has this suggestion been accepted already?:
Not that I could see

How would this benefit Alora?:
Unless I'm just an idiot, there is no way to stop private chat showing outside the 'private' tab on mobile, it all appears below the chat box, and currently its not possible to clear private chat as you can on Runelite. Due to this, having any convo on mobile, or even just having friends added and seeing the log in / log out messages, ends up taking a fair bit of limited screen space.
Being able to either have private chat only show in the private chat box, have the option to 'clear' as you can on Runelite or the ability to set a timer for X seconds / minutes before messages vanish would be a great QOL change

( Excuse the formatting, tried to post a few times and it wouldnt post correctly)

What is your suggestion?:
I would like to see the Admins / Event managers to be able to schedule when a server boost starts, as I believe this is currently not an option?
This would be the first step in working towards being able to schedule server events at different times, so other time zones dont miss out on the vast majority of the better boosts. Its unfair to ask the staff to log in at stupid hours to start an event.

 

 

Is this in OSRS?:

No

 

Has this suggestion been accepted already?:
Not that im aware of, at least in terms to allowing it to be used to schedule events for other timezones

 

 

 

How would this benefit Alora?:

Using myself as an example, I'm east cost Aus and the current 4pm/7pm server time for cox, toa, tob etc boosts is 2am/5am.

I realise the majority of the server is probably pretty close to the server time so its not the end of the world for them to schedule around hitting these events, but that minority of us who are not simply miss out. 
If this change could be implemented, it would allow staff to schedule when an event starts / ends and then maybe once a month have the server event times swapped 12hours before / after the current times, so other time zones can be more involved.
We already suffer from ping, dont make us miss events too   

 

(Or make me an admin for 3hours a month and I'll run events )