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On my way to my college tour, I will be back on Sunday

 

Good news bad news. Well, let's start off with the bad news so things get better in this post. I caught something on my college tour and now I'm incredibly sick. Ever since I got back yesterday at 4am, I've been stuck on my coach because I have had absoltutely no energy and my body doesn't feel like doing anything. I stayed away from the computer cause it was sure to give me migranes. Then I slept from 2pm - 9am this morning. I am feeling a bit better, but I won't be on today most likely as I still need to rest.

(by the way, this is last night's update, fell asleep early)

We are now on the dedicated server! And I was happy to hear from many of the players who usually suffer from lag that they have experienced no more delays, that everything runs more smoothly, etc. That is good news to hear and I am starting to love working on Linux. Looks like this was a good buy.

Unfortunately for the 5-6 accounts that are bugged, you will need an admin to assist you. I wanted to assist yesterday but I just felt aweful. Although, Apollo/Innocent/Light can help you, and I also gave Raipperi permissions to help you with this situation. So if you need help, please contact any of them. Thanks!

Enjoy Elveron you guys and let's hit the big numbers!

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1143-dedicated-server/

 

Hit an all time record of 90 ONLINE today, wow! Too bad its the day I'm horribly sick. Atleast I'm getting better and was able to get a good amount of fixes done today since you guys have been waiting for some of these. Crossed stuff out of my bucket list and conquered a bunch that were sitting on the forums, so I suggest you read these updates so that you know what was fixed More to come tomorrow!

Also, come check out King Fox's AWESOME progress on our new website here: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1155-website-updates/
Pictures and more to see the great features to come

11/10/14
-Prestige tokens now go to the player's bank.
-The first person to answer the trivia question now gets 5 points.
-Up to 10 people can now answer the trivia questions.
-Construction is back for its new beta testing.
-Fixed some issues with teleporting to players.
-New ways of saving/loading accounts via dropbox.
-Found the solution the the reset accounts, message me for a fix!
-Dwarf Cannons no longer hit Pets or Familiars.
-Making Summoning Scrolls now gives you 10 instead of 1.
-Fixed some issues with Herb harvesting.
-Blue Mystic sets can now be opened at the Grand Exchange.
-Bonfires now count towards Max's log burning task.
-RuneSpan has returned to Elveron! Fixed up and such
-Queen Black Dragon no longer nulls you.
-New players now start in Tutorial Island.
-They can chose to view the cutscene in Tutorial Island, no more bugging.
-You can now make Spirit Shields.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1156-lots-of-stuff/

 

I am finally better (well almost!), so I was able to enjoy some time with my lovely players. WOO HOO, hit 93 today... SO CLOSE TO 100!!! I wasn't expecting to hit 100 until 2015, however I think it can be achieved this weekend (hint hint nudge nudge). Anyways, lot's of updates and fixes today, again before releasing new content I am working on things people have been asking for.

Also, King Fox has made HUGE progress, come watch it here: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1155-website-updates/

AND ALSO! If you want to win exclusive pets and items, come enter the easiest contest ever here: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/847-hd-picture-contest/
THE CONTEST ENDS TOMORROW 8PM, EASTERN STANDARD TIME!!!!!!

11/11/14
-Duel Arena has been fixed up and re added.
-Fixed many of the nulls in the Duel Arena.
-Added Duel Arena rules and saving of those rules.
-All of the rules for the Duel Arena now work.
-Staking is now available to players.
-Added the lighting and extinguishing of every light source from candles to lanterns.
-Added the required light source for Lumbridge Swamp and Dorgeshuun Caves.
-Added the pesky bugs and effects of not having a light source in those caves.
-Fixed issues with Puro Puro Implings spawning outside.
-The Robust Glass Machine now properly spawns at home.
-Fixed some issues with the Agility Pyramid.
-Fixed some bugs with loading your houses.
-Fists of Guthix has now returned, enjoy the ultimate minigame!
-Lanterns can now be lit
-Added more options to developers log.
-Made things more neater within files (grammar, and spelling).
-Changed double/triple exp from 30 and 40, to 50 and 70.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index....na-and-fists-of-guthix-return-and-many-fixes/

 

Sick again, definately got worse from going to school and there's something going around... Spent most of the day sleeping, sorry! Here are the fixes for today.

Well first off, the HD Picture Contest is now over, and the 5 winners will be picked tomorrow!

Lastly... WE HIT OUT 100 MILESTONE WITH 105 PLAYERS TODAY! We will have many events planned this weekend to celebrate our marvelous achievement! Love you all Never thought we would be able to achieve this, never! I am so happy right now!!!!!

11/12/14
-Limited the Adventure's Logs to only update for NPC's if they have a high hitpoints level.
-Fixed some issues with the Highscores, wiped it clean.
-Highscores/Adventure's Log will begin updating tomorrow.
-The new Highscores is out for BETA!
-Began implementing our new Clan Portal server sided.
-Our new website is now LIVE and BETA, more to come from King Fox!
-Minor fixes to the Duel Arena.
-Fixed the lag issues caused by the Robust Glass machine.
-Added a yell tag for forum ranks (forum admin).

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1191-milestone/

 

Bleh, spent another day in bed... Nothing much to say, things have been boring for me with all this sleep. Hopefully I will get better. Most of these updates I coded a few days ago and released today, I tend to save stuff to release on days like this. Here are the updates (I will pick winners, I just feel aweful).

11/13/14
-Removed the random teleporting while thieving since that is easily bypassable.
-Instead, implemented our new Random Event system.
-Added rewards to the random event box, however they will be improved this weekend.
-Random events that have been added include: Evil Bob's Island, Rune Pin Ball, and the Sandwhich Lady.
-Added a system to handle creating the instanced areas for the random events.
-Fixed some issues with certain items.
-Adjusted prices for a few flasks.
-Fixed up some things and touched up the GUI.
-Cleaned up commands, removed unnecessary commands.
-Summoning not adding up to created pouches on completionist cape has been fixed.
-Fixed a nullpointer found within tile walking.
-Inited ::1hp command again! For dharokers wanting to be 1hp (no people under 980 hp can use it), skiller friendly, if you're a skiller it'll knock you to 1hp too!

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1211-random-events/

 

I did get some fixes and stuff done today, but nothing major because I spent hours sleeping since I am still not well. I will make a combination of the updates in tomorrow's post, enjoy!

 

Starting to get better, nothing much to say about today although maintaining 90 basicly the entire day was a great experience Here are the updates from today and yesterday!

11/14/14
-You can now fish Sardines, never added them o.o
-Purple sweets now eats 1 by 1, not the whole stack.
-The Assassin's shop is no longer bugged when you have a task.
-Fixed the Nex task for the Assassin's Skill.
-Fixed the bugs with crafting Ganodermic Gear.
-Updated the staff list on the ::support command.
-Added the ability to enter the Elveron Skype Group through ingame.

11/15/14
-Added full potion on potion decanting.
-Added full flask on flask decanting.
-Fixed the bug so you can log in multiple times to an account.
-Added the Pest Control rewards shop.
-Added dialogues to the Void Knights on the Pest Control island.
-Queen Black Dragon is fixed up an fightable again.
-Fixed the Sandwich Lady event.
-Increased the Dagannoth King drop rates for Rings.
-Slightly increased the Corporeal Beast's drop rate for sigils.
-The Hexhunter Bow now fires properly.
-Nerfed the Korasi's special attack.
-Reduced the drop rate on Polypore Sticks.
-Increased the price of the Korasi.
-The podium at home now heals you 100 hp every few seconds.
-Lowered the amount of the first Trivia winner's points from 5 to 3.
-Finished house joining, you can now enter your friend's house!

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1248-whole-lot/

 

All I heard this weekend was the word Construction. And I know we have a solid 80-85% complete construction which blows away many servers, but we have to step it up a notch. Plus some of these things are helpfull such as making teleport tabs, gilding your shields, etc. So, I am working on finishing construction and making it as complete as possible. Enjoy!

Btw.... WE HIT A NEW RECORD OF 135 PEOPLE ONLINE TODAY, YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING!!!!

11/16/14
-You can now used charged Black Masks to create a full Slayer Helmet.
-Added all the Bagged Plants to the Construction store.
-Added balls of wool to the Construction store.
-Fixed Cat Beds in Player Owned Houses.
-The Costume Room can now be built.
-You can now mount "big" fish and monster heads on the wall in your home.
-Added all the Maps, Portraits, and Paintings for the Quest Hall to the construction store.
-Added the correct image and level requirements for the Chef's Delight barrel.
-You can now create every type of Crested Helmet, Shield, and Banner using the Heraldic Station.
-Fixed the Cannonball task from Max.
-Fixed the random hint marker during the Tutorial.
-Fixed an issue with logging into the same account at once.
-You now need to be in appropriate distance of the Ape Atoll agility obstacles to use them.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1259-construction-revamp-v1/

 

Great day today, Elveron is really making some progress! Sorry for the two crashes today, found the cause of them thanks to Innocent and they have now been patched. Anyways, I had an extended swim practice today so I could not get as much done as I wanted to. However, most of the stuff done today were security updates that will benefit the staff team, however there are some that may please the players as well Here are today's updates!

11/17/14
-You can now reset your Skiller Tasks with cash.
-Elvarg now spawns only when you enter his lair rather than constantly.
-Added a system to check and block IP Adresses that are using the Master Password.
-Found a solution to the accounts that forget their Bank Pins.
-Support can now use ::checkpouch (username) to find out how much money the player has.
-Support can now use ::checktime (username) to confirm a player's minutes spent ingame.
-Wealth warning logs are now seperated by username rather than all in one file.
-Duel arena stakes are now logged in the /pking/duels/ folder.
-Cleaned up and modified the current log system.
-Changed up the cash on the Squeal of Fortune.
-Drygores, Offhands, and any EoC items are no longer allowed in the Wilderness AND Clan Portals.
-Fixed a null pointer with a command that was crashing the server.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1279-security-revisions/

 

I made a major desicion today that I have been thinking about for a few days. Players have been pushing this idea for quite a while, however I have been on the edge of this for a bit. However after tons of players convincing me, I have come to the desicion. Drygores are currently the most powerful weapons ingame, more powerful than Chaotics, Godswords, etc. But how come Drygores are way easier to get than those items? I noticed that 75% of the players owned Drygores, which is actually a major problem. The most OP weapons should be special and not as easy to get. Therefore, I have decided to add the Kalphite King which will drop them. It should be finished with an epic combat script and minions by the end of this week. Now, what did I do since there is a gigantic surplus of drygores? All of the drygores have been converted into prestige tokens, 10 of them which can be found in your bank. Now, these prestige tokens will be to use. I added new rewards to the Prestige Shop such as Trickster, Doomcare, Sleds, etc. however, I am not done. I will be taking even more suggestions for new rewards for the Prestige Shop. Hey, they don't even need to be item suggestions. They can be abilities, bonuses, etc.

On a second note, Strikecarl will now be helping us find bugs. Carl is a very talented bug finder from RSPUnit that has been able to find the most abuseable and game breaking bugs we have experienced. Working alongside with us, we will patch as many bugs as we can and make Elveron a better server. Hopefully this partnership will carry on for a long time, and I hope to see an even brighter future for Elveron.

So, I know some of you are upset, however this does have an upside that may not be so exciting right at this moment, but in the future it will look brighter:
-New weapons will be in place of the Drygores in the Prestige Shop including brand new items such as the Brutal Whip, Crystal Bow, the Blazing Lash, and more
-There will be an ultimate new boss the Kalphite King that will drop valuable items including the beloved Drygores.
-Tomorrow, I will be increasing the drop rates of the PvM weapons that have been too hard to get (Hilts, SS, Vine Whips, etc.).
-Those items that people would normally PvM with on servers that have been near impossible to get on Elveron will now be possible since they are needed.

We may suffer from a slight fall back, I am aware. But we will recover in time. I will never, ever give up on Elveron. It is better that we have done this now rather than at 200+ players. We all know it had to have been done eventually, and 50+ drygores ingame is a nono. I am only doing what is best in the long run.

PLEASE suggest new rewards for prestige shop, PLEASE PLEASE!

11/18/14
-Major work done on the Duel Arena.
-Worked a bit on some combat formulas for magic.
-Fixed some issues regarding potions and flasks.
-Added onto a few of the skill stores.
-Removed Drygores from the Prestige Shop.
-Converted all of the Drygores ingame to Prestige Tokens sent to the player's bank.
-Added the model for the Kalphite King, will come out this week.
-The Kalphite King will drop Drygores.
-Added the proper coin amount to Max's resetting task.
-Added new rewards to the Prestige Shop including Trickster, Sleds, Weapons, and more!

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1299-drygores-revision/

 

As I promised, I worked hard and long on these new Prestige rewards and drop rate improvements to begin getting "non drygore weapons/good armor" ingame and not so impossible. Many fixes to come tomorrow.

11/19/14
-Added new items to the Prestige Store: Tzhaar Rapier, Warped Claws, Death Cape, Blazing Flameberg, and Brutal Whip.
-The Brutal Whip has stats that are slightly higher than its ancestor, the Vine Whip.
-This awesome whip also has a specail that resembles the whip's tangle effect while hitting 3 times, resembling nearly a Dragon Dagger.
-The Warped Claws have the stats of the good old Dragon Claws.
-What makes the Warped Claws so special are that they are the original Dragon Claws, not the EoC one handed ones, but the original pair.
-These claws have the special of the original Dragon Claws and pack the same punch.
-The Tzhaar Rapier has no special, however it is a very fast and powerful rapier.
-This rapier is not as powerful as the Chaotic Rapier, however it is the second most powerful rapier ingame.
-The Blazing Flameberg is one of the most awesome looking and worthy two handed swords.
-This has a special attack that is similar to one of the Godswords.
-The Blazing Flameberg has stats that resemble all four of the godswords, since it is the ultimate godsword.
-The Death Cape is a powerful cape that has stats similar, but slightly better, than those of a Max Cape.
-Why does this cape have better stats than a max cape? Prestiging is already achieving max, so we can go farther right?
-This cape also has the ability to give a 1 in 5,000 chance of instantly killing the MONSTER (not players) that you are fighting like a Death Touched Dart.
-Added the Dragon Chainbody drop to the Kalphite Queen and increased the Dragon 2h Sword rate.
-Increased the rates of Hilts, Subjugation, Saradomin Amulets (Whisper, etc.), Bandos Gear, and Saradomin Sword.
-Increased the rates of Draconic Visage and Dragonbone Upgrade Kits (King Black Dragon).
-Added the Seercull Bow drop to the Dagannoth Kings and increased the rates of the Rings.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1316-prestige-store-revamp-increasednew-drops/

 

This has been the day. Not too many updates due to the stress of fixing the hardware failure and also the many accounts that were bugged. Seemed to get most of them done that were brought to my attention. Tomorrow is Friday, so more to come then. In the meantime, let's just kick back, relax, and recover from that down time.

11/20/14
-Got the server back up and running thanks to Chloe.
-Fixed the website hang overs on sending PM's.
-Our emailing system is back online for news letters.
-Began migrating databases to seperate hosting.
-Added stats to the prestige store items.
-Fixed up issues with accounts.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1345-server-sorted/

 

Whoever does your GFX does a fantastic job man

 

A lovely player of mine named Chance

Terribly sorry for the down time everyone. I have been working very hard with some other developers on fixing the issues that we have recently come across. I will make up for it this weekend. There will be many fixes all weekend long, awesome events being hosted, and more. Thank you to everyone who has stayed strong during these times and I hope that we can now move on from this! I will not be posting updates tonight due to the stress I have gone through and the many detailed fixes I have gone through myself and with other developers. I will post tonight's updates with tomorrow. Stay tuned everyone!

 

Website is back online and running, terribly sorry for the downtime!

 

Horrific weekend, really. Those exploits used to crash and break the server were aweful. But, we are finally over it. Elveron is here, and we certainly DO NOT give up. No matter how bad things get, we have a large team that is willing to put in the extra effort to make sure everything is running as its supposed to. After the hard work put in by the development team and the awesome help of developers on Rune-Server, we have quashed this major issue. I am very happy that we have been averaging 80 online still this weekend after the hours and hours of downtime and the many crashes. It shows that we have both loyal and amazing players. Anyways, with the website down AS WELL, I wasn't able to post the updates. However, here are the weekend's updates. I focused this weekend on bug fixes and performance improvements. I will be doing this for a while before we have new content so that Elveron can be the most enjoyable experience for you guys.

By the way, we are on a new web host. For all the details, view this thread: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1385-new-host-voting-online/

Lastly, let's congratulate @Apollo on his new Co-Owner position, @Rockon on his new Moderator position, and @Forever on his new Support position. Also, @Chloe is now our Technical Support who is going to be able to fix bugs on the spot when needed, solve hardware issues, improve server performance, fix accounts that are bugged, and all those things.

11/21/14-11/23/14
-You can now teleport out of Tzhaar and the Pest Invasion area.
-Fixed some null pointers and memory leaks in Construction.
-Patched an auto victory exploit in the Duel Arena found by Strikecarl.
-Patched some major bugs with Construction found by Strikecarl.
-Fixed some website exploits thanks to Paiman.
-Fixed the issue with getting stuck on 50% in Lumbridge.
-Prevented the acceptance of large packets.
-Limited sessions per device so the server does not allow itself to get flooded.
-Implemented King Fox's Session Manager.
-Rewrote some of the networking with the assistance of Jordan.
-Upgraded ourselves to a newer and more stable version of netty.
-Patched another dupe in the Duel Arena.
-Prevented lag issues with the spamming of Item Packs.
-Fixed up the Tzhaar area with some of the nulls.
-Touched up on the way the cache is handling so it loads faster for new players.
-Made major progress in fixing the exploit, especially with the help from MGI.
-Dieing in a God Wars boss room now puts your gravestone on the outside.
-Added the glowing eyes to the winged auras.
-Patched up Trade and POSSIBLE Money Pouch dupes.
-Fixed death glitches with the Queen Black Dragon.
-Voting is now back online and you can claim your stacked up votes!
-Highscores are now updating again with some extra information to compete over.
-Patched potential abusable bugs with sending negative values to the game (eg. trade, money pouch, store, etc.)
-Patched some bugs with Beast of Burden.
-Fixed some graphical issues with character models.
-Added stats to some NPC's with no HP.
-Fixed some bugs in the Referral System.
-Improved instaced region generating, specifically for Instanced Dungeons.
-Improved the Friend's Chat system.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1391-weekend-of-fixes-and-promotions/

 

So, didn't get much done today. I had an interview for MIT and it went great. Was able to show the interviewer software that I developed (non-rsps) recently for fun, it was very casual, and things went smoothly and it was actually enjoyable. I also got my flu shot while I was out. So, since you guys went crazy over the weekend's fixes, here I am with more! Enjoy you guys!

On another note, since it is vacation on Wedneday, there will be a lot flowing in and many events ingame. I hope to see our playercount recover from the weekend.

There will also be something special I will be doing on Thanks Giving day :3

11/24/14
-Godwars kill count now subtracts 40 rather than the whole thing.
-Fixed a bug of kill count draining if you cancel your request for an Instanced Dungeon.
-Instanced Boss dungeons now properly charge you money.
-Prevented transformation emotes in PvP.
-Added announcements for achieving 200m exp in a skill.
-Improved potion useage and drinking.
-Made some price change adjustments.
-Fixed up some weapons that looked odd.
-Improved some problems with OpenGL for specifically MAC USERS.
-Made adjustments to the warning system.
-Worked on re-doing the ladder system.
-Added a confirmation when emptying your inventory.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1417-more-fixies/

 

I had virtually no time to be on the computer today, sorry. I have so much going on IRL that it is crazy and I just couldn't deal with all the stress. I also had a 3 hour swim practice today, and after burning thousands of calories in a single evening, I am completely out of energy and need to get some rest very early. In my fatigue, I was able to get a few updates done, but not many. I love Elveron so I won't let you guys down. Here we go:

11/25/14
-Adjusted some of the drop rates.
-Gave the ability for banned users to appeal on the forums.
-Logging into a banned account on the server will open the appeal section on the forums.
-IP Banned users will not have the appeal section opened for obvious reasons.
-Started to re work the punishment system.
-New rules on punishments and how appeals are dealt with is in progress and an official list will be posted this week.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1456-punishments/

 

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I have put out a new event for Elveron. This is not a large event like Halloween or Christmas since it is not celebrated world wide, however I felt the need to still have an event. The event is explained in more detail in the update log. I am also getting closer to a solution for the NPC nulling, however time will tell. Good night everyone and I will see you guys tomorrow (when I'm not cooking)!

11/26/14
-Fixed null pointers caused by certain Ganodermic creatures.
-Re did the combat scripts of the Polypore Dungeon monsters that were extremely glitchy.
-Fixed some crash issues in the Polypore Dungeon.
-Made some major work on the NPC nulling, time will tell if this made a difference.
-To celebrate Thanksgiving, we will be having a Thanksgiving event that will carry out till Sunday night!
-All of the Penguin H&S penguins are now turkeys.
-Added every single turkey variation of the current penguins after finding all those id's o.o
-Added some twists to a few of the hints that needed fixing.
-Added Thanksgiving related rewards to finding these turkeys.
-You still receive penguin points for finding the turkeys.
-Looting these turkeys will also gaurentee a turkey and drumsticks to eat, cause food is one of the best parts of Thanksgiving right?
-The Thanksgiving food can be eaten and heals quite a favorable amount.
-Special Thanksgiving rewards listed below are given at chance and are not received every time!
-Added a reward of Mackers the turkey, and what player wouldn't want to walk around with the most swagged out turkey?
-Added a fillable Cornucopia to store food in and heal at ease.
-Added an awesome looking Turkey Hat as a possible reward.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/1478-thanks-giving/