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I really like how this server is updated often. I'll give this a try when I get back home.

 

Well, today was a day that in the end, made me smile. Days have been spent on this NPC nulling and client crashing issue that have had both @King Fox and I tearing out our hair, because it is the most odd thing ever that just came out of no where and can't be connected with any of the updates we have done. Going through many and many people trying to help us, we finally came near to a solution with the help of Kethsi and Kaleem who with their knowledge of networking, were able to help us pinpoint exactly where the issue was. So, we are still working on making this a lot better, however we were able to conquer the majority of the crashes that we are experiences with the randomly transforming NPC's. Although the crashing is solved, some NPC's still occasionally transform into strange looking NPC's, however they revert back within a short amount of time. Today has made significant progress and I am very happy, although now I am behind on some school work.

Also, I would like to congratulate @Kangaroo on his promotion. Both @Random and @Slimez have resigned and we will be looking for one more support.

Our latest client as well (.rar) includes a lot of debugging which is actually very useful to us in improving the performance of the client. Please share any new data you receive in the cmd line when you crash Thanks!

I hope to see a come back soon, since our nearly constant crashes are no longer common. We have had a significant player base loss from this issue, however we just need to try hard to get back to where we were and I have a lot of faith in our awesome community SPREAD THE WORDDDDD!

12/19/14-12/20/14
- Fixed the Trivia Shop dialogue. You now get the number of spins it says you get.
- Fixed an issue with server tasks always throwing an exception when stopped.
- Fixed an issue with clue scrolls sometimes not giving a reward.
- Removed annoying message wen attacking Ganodermic beasts.
- Reduced attack delay of Ganodermic beasts from 1 second to 3 seconds.
- Increase Ganodermic beasts damage from 10 to 30 to accomodate attack delay change.
- Fixed an issue with Fist of Guthix causing the server to lag slightly.
- Fixed issues regarding the White Portal and Red Portal (still a few more).
- Made significant progress with the NPC crashing on the client.
- Prevented some errors in the client from crashing the game.
- Implemented debuggers that can print out lots of useful information that you guys can use to help me improve the client.
- Fixed some issues that certain Mac users were having.
- Improvement in the combat of certain NPCs.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/2263-major-progress-on-client-fixes/

 

Spent nearly the entire of yesterday working hard on fixing those server ruining bugs. Consequently, I had to spend all day on academics with this research paper, college applications, and ap microeconomics final exam since my class is excelarated and we complete the course in half of the school year to carry on and do an extra class (ugh -____-). Anyways, the great news is that I got the Common App done and I finished my college essay and I think it is pretty stellar. Now I just have to finish my MIT application, so many supplementals...

Anyways, of course I won't let down the server and I tried hard to get some updates in today. So, I got what I could get done with the 30 minutes I had <3

Also, I am so happy to see we had 104 online today, and 80-90 a good chunk of the day. A few days ago, we were averaging on 40-60 due to our crashes and issues, and I was stressing out thinking that we lost all that we had worked for. But, we are already beginning to bounce back and I am so happy to see our playerbase slowly returning back to normal (although we still have a bit to get back into the swing). I would like to thank all of the dedicated players and our amazing community for sticking with us through hard times and I can't wait to see what the future that awaits us <3

WINTER BREAK STARTS WEDNESDAY FOR ME

12/21/14
- Adjusted Blood Barrage from 8% to 25% heal amount
- Added in a Help Book to assist new players and answer questions. Thanks to @Random
- The starter for any class now includes the Help Book.
- The command ::help can give a player the ultimate beginner tips.
- Fixed some null pointers with name entering.
- Did more work on the client, however there is not a new client release tonight.
- Reworked the combat scripts of certain NPC's.
- Fixes with Fists of Guthix since I'm getting ready to host some minigame events over Christmas break.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/2292-players-manual-and-fixes/

 

Another slow day unfortunately due to another final exam tomorrow. However, tomorrow is my last school day before Christmas Vacation! WOOO HOOO (OPPORTUNITY). Let's really boom during this winter vacation. I probably won't be that active Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, however I will start working on the Christmas Event tomorrow after school (and I will literally spend hours on a good one) and it should be out by midnight on Christmas Eve. I will also be doing something special on New Years day, but not on New Years eve since I celebrate it with friends and family.

Anyways, I am going to sleep early so I have a healthy mind tomorrow to finish my last test. Here are today's updates

12/22/14
- Added new option to the Account option in quest tab for custom titles.
- Added ability to set custom title, color, and shade.
- Implemented new methods to detect valid shade and color hex codes.
- Colors must consist of exactly 6 characters, no longer or shorter.
- Colors/Shades must be any combination of A-F, 0-9.
- Implemented new methods to detect valid title characters.
- Title must be between 3 and 15 characters.
- Title must not contain any variation of Mod, Admin, or Owner.
- Title must only be alphanumerical characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9).
- Custom titles set in Account on quest tab will also be used for yell. (Will override preset user titles!).
- Custom yell can only be set by supreme+ donator ranks and admins.
- Fixed some stability issues with NPC's.
- Reverted to another version of netty that we were previously using.
- Updated the security on our portable admin control panel.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/2345-yell-tags-winter-break-and-fixes/

 

It is great to finally be on winter break. Spent most of the day sleeping because of the lack of sleep I have been getting the past few days due to all of this school work. I got lot's of progress done on the Christmas Event and it will be out by midnight on Christmas Eve.

It is now vacation, let's see Elveron boom. Now is the time to get on, invite player to join in on the fun, etc. If we can average 100 this weekend, I have some extra special events that I am ready to unleasch that weekend.

12/23/14
- Started work on Stealing Creations (yes finally) with Kethsi.
- Finally found the coords for the Stealing Creations plane thanks to Cjay0091.
- Found all of the chunks necessary for the Stealing Creations game including skill hotspots, team bases, obstacles, kilns, etc.
- Added special attacks to the extreme godswords: armadyl, bandos, saradomin, and zamorak.
- Improved the special attack of the excalibur.
- Started work on the Christmas Event storyline.
- Nailed some dialogues and riddles for the Christmas Event.
- Thieving random events are no longer so common.
- Updated the new beginner's guide on registration to @Teerent 's new guide.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/2373-start-on-the-christmas-event/

 

Merry Christmas Elveron! Terribly sorry I couldn't make it on today, I had Christmas shopping to do, mass tp attend, preparing for tomorrow's feast, etc. and things have been very busy today. I will be very busy tomorrow due to it being Christmas and I need some time to relax and relieve the stress that I have had recently. So I just wanted to give a heads up that I will probably not be online tomorrow.

Nevertheless, I was able to get the Christmas event done today which can be started at home by speaking to Santa. I am dedicated aren't I?

12/24/14
- New Christmas Event that can be found at home (Dec 25 - Dec 31).
- An awesome and semi lengthly quest with the event.
- Many dialogues created for this event.
- The event is spread out all over the map and you will have to do exploring.
- Added an activity unlocked after helping santa with his quest.
- Added an awesome rewards shop that contains exclusive items that will be discontinued after the event.
- Both Combat and Skilling activities are available in the after quest activity.
- Added awesome effects of the snowball generating snow on the ground.
- Snow can be picked up from the piles you find.
- Snowballs can be properly thrown at people (WOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO).

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/2389-merry-christmas/

 

Well, today was an extremely day for me. I was finishing my college applications, and MIT having a ton of supplementals and these non common app ones are killing me. But, I spent a good amount of hours on them today and I am about 90% done with them, I will continue tomorrow. So, as I announced this morning on the server, that was the schedule for me.*

I will not be posting the updates today as I want to do them in a batch tomorrow, since most of my day was consumed by getting my applications ready.

However....

I have a sneak preview that I may have alluded to on Christmas Eve and earlier for the staff team...

Coming soon to Elveron... (Monday I hope)



Server #3-5 to have Stealing Creations?
Huge shout out to Brennen for making SIGNIFICANT progress in Stealing Creations for Elveron with us.*
There is still a lot more to be done, bugs to be fixed, testing to do, content to finish.
However, Stealing Creations currently stands at 80% complete, including map generating (sizes depending on team sizes) with random locations each time - evenly spread out amongst classes and activities.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/2439-very-busy-day-but-a-sneak-peak/

 

Had a great day with my friends, finally got some real relaxing done. It is vacation, I have been working very hard on college applications and school, the server, sports, etc. that I just need some time to relax this vacation, and I hope that the players agree that I well deserve it.

Stealing Creations? Oh it is going well, and it may be at the same point right now as the other servers that have it, but it is still not complete. However, I will open up BETA access to the minigame tomorrow to a select few people. If you are interested in beta testing it and finding bugs, please message me.

Lastly, I got home a bit late but I was able to get a bunch of those naggy bugs done that have been a pain in the ass. Some small, some large, some just suggestions. I did the ones that didn't take me too long, here we go

Actually. One more thing, please suggest some things on our new content thread (VERY IMPORTANT) or atleast read it: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/2458-end-game-content/

12/27/14
-Cannons can no longer be placed at home.
-The recent issues with instanced areas and freezing is now solved.
-Patched every single null that has occured over the past week.
-Major improvement in finding regions, shouldn't overlap with existing maps.
-Patched a possible abuseable bug with Adrenaline/Special Restore Potions thanks to @DaloZ
-Adjusted the proper strength bonus of the off hand Dragon Battleaxe.
-Increased the stats of the ultimate Brutal Whip.
-Worked on future specials and plans for currently only costmetic weapons such as the Frostmourne.
-Since Drygores are no longer "common items", I increased the stats of them.
-Major work on Stealing Creations accomplished, I will list these tomorrow.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/2459-item-bonuses-and-fixes/

 

First things first, I saw the Hobbit today and thought it was amazing, although it was a bit too much centered on one battle which kind of irritated me. Anyways, noticed that the dwarf cannon issues were really lagging the server and eating an enourmous amount of memory, so decided to patch that bug. But while I was at it, I worked more on improving general things about the dwarf cannon.

I am sorry to inform you guys, but Stealing Creations may be a bit delayed for beta testing. I still have some multiplayer issues to sort out with it. I hope it will be ready soon and have considered everyone who has requested beta access.

12/28/14
-Cannons now properly dissappear upon logging back in.
-They also properly go into your inventory.
-The cannon should no longer hit any pets or familiars.
-Cannons should no longer multi shoot a npc five times in one fire.
-You can no longer noclip with cannon placement.
-Fight Kiln crystals can only be used in Fight Kiln.
-Improved some issues with Trading and declines.
-Spent the day looking at trade bugs and possible dupes, think I nailed them all.
-Addressed the issue with Dungeoneering and no movement.
-Trades are now efficiently logged with acceptances, declines, lent items, etc.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/2476-dwarf-cannon-improvements/

 

Starting to take more personal time off, just to relax and stuff. This is not permanent, it is just till January that I am not as active as I usually am. I have been working on the server, day by day, non stop for literally many many hours each day. I have not missed a day, even during Thanksgiving break, etc. I have decided it is best for my health to just relax and enjoy winter vacation due to all of the effort I have been putting into the server. I am still getting stuff done, however it is not the maximum and I will not be ingame that much until January 1st. I am just giving myself time to recooperate, time to get my applications submitted by January 1st, and some recreation time. I just wanted to give everyone a heads up and hope you guys understand!

12/29/14
-The Money Pouch can now be used with trade.
-You can no longer remove your main garden room in your house.
-Both Queen Black Dragon and Bork controlers are now working properly.
-Fixed not being able to move in certain instanced areas.
-General performance improvements.
-Major work continued on Stealing Creations.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/2499-general-fixes/

 

Long day Woke up early to elite hax0rs on the server causing mayhem. Worked vigerously to spot and patch the exploits, but I think it is good. Going to be busy since it is New Years Eve (oh my, still got applications due tomorrow night), cooking a great meal since it is probably one of my last New Year's Eves with my family in a while. Stealing Creations to come soon, I know you guys are eager

Congratulations to @Quad on his new support position. #TeamEuro

12/30/14
-Temporarily removed Tetsu from the Prestige shop, no more crashing
-Finished up the hotspots for Stealing Creations.
-Fixed up the path finding in instanced regions.
-Dung/Cons/etc. generated regions no longer null.
-Removed overlapping in certain maps.
-Repacked the cache with fresh client scripts.
-Hopefully patched up the exploits of today's hacking.
-Began work on a beta, more stable client that people can test tomorrow.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/2541-instanced-region-fixes/

 

Happy New Years to everyone on behalf of the staff team! I hope everyone has had a wonderful year as Elveron has had a great one. I finished applying to most of my colleges and now I can truely relax. Just a friendly reminder that votes reset today. We need to take advantage and vote like crazy so that we can maintain our spots at the top. For that reason, I have turned double vote rewards on. Enjoy!

On a last note, Stealing Creations is now active for BETA! Please understand that this is a beta and it will not be flawless. We need your help to find and patch bugs, and there will probably be many. There is no rewards shop yet and you can access the beta in Gamer's Grotto. The people who PM'd me prior to this asking for beta access will have beta access along with any donator. Please report bugs to me in the form of a PM.

 

Again, Happy New Years everyone! Had a great day of rest, relaxation, applied to most of my colleges, had fun times on teamspeak with the community (yes we even had @Rockon 's favorite flute). Also, we were able to test out Stealing Creations with around 10 players with beta access and it worked out well. Sure we have bugs to quash that we found today, but all is going well and I am really excited.

The community has been speaking about the donator revamp, and it is something that just had to happen. So, I worked on it today before I forgot about it. Fixed up some non working features, added in some promised features, etc. Note that the Supreme/Angelic/Demonic zones are still under construction as I am collaborating on ideas with other people.

1/1/2015
-Added ::rules which links to the rules forum post.
-The Kalphite Queen and Giant Mole are now Assassin tasks.
-Regular, Extreme, and Legendary Donators receive their Donator Capes upon auto donation.
-Donator tokens and gear now go into your bank rather than your inventory.
-All the Donator Capes are now in the respected Donator Shop.
-Updated the Regular Donator shop with new items.
-The Extreme Donator shop has been added back to the Donator Zone.
-Added in the donator Squeal of Fortune chances.
-Supreme Harmony and Divine Armor are now in the Divine Donator Shop.
-Mr. Ex is now in the Divine Donator Zone.
-Added in an Angelic Donator Zone with a new Angelic Donator Shop.
-Angelic and Supreme Donator Zones still under construction, throw me ideas.
-Mackers can no longer be exploited for penguin points.
-Pest/Jad can no longer be wave-skipped using a specific exploit.
-Fixed SOF Tab not being present when dismissing a familiar.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/2570-donator-revamp/

 

Some simple yet important things done today. Most of today's effort has been spent on finishing Stealing Creations and a new and more stable client. More to come tomorrow

1/2/15
-Rewrote alot of how Troll Invasion handles leaving the game (either win, death, logout, etc.)
-General Graardor and Commander Zilyana no longer take ages to respawn.
-Patched some bugs with Stealing Creations.
-Added the option to the Estate Agent to reset your house.
-Added the Purple Sweet running effect.
-Players no longer get hit in the Death Room by bosses with special combat scripts.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/2593-important-things/

 

Got some great things coming out tomorrow, however I have spent a ton of time doing homework and I have a presentation due in less than 2 hours. Therefore i don't have time to finish some updates nor post the ones done today. I will make a post of both of the updates tomorrow, stay in tune Elveron!

And I know it is Saturday, however it is homework from over the break so I still have a lot to do in the morning/afternoon

 

Light has been demoted due to extreme immaturity and corruption thanks to the influence of Justin. Anyways, enough is enough and I will no longer put up with bad staff members. Light was once good, but things have changed and he along messed up the forums which should be organized up by the morning.

On a more positive note, I am getting excited to approve and release the event list for Phil tomorrow along with a new and improved official rules list.

Also due to increasing demand, I will be adding in the Iron Man Mode into the game tomorrow and white portal should be up again tomorrow as well

Lastly, I have no school tomorrow because the weather will be in the negatives. So, I will see you guys on teamspeak tomorrow and ingame :3

1/8/15
- Fixed some possible abuseable bugs with the crystal chest.
- Gave summoning charms a value, possible new money making method.
- Removed the Edgeville home as it is better to just have one.
- Touched up the starter cutscene so that it runs more smoothly for new players.
- Reduced the distance of the Abyssal Demon teleport special move.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/2735-some-quick-things/

 

Today was a rough day, did not get as much accomplished as I wanted to. Where do I start?

Well first of all, you may have all noticed that our forums is fresh to a new start. This is because Light and Justin were able to use hidden accounts and destroy the forums. We were able to recover data, however it was time that we started fresh on the forums. So we started this off by purchasing a legitimate IPBoard lisence so that we are running off of official software and have access to all of the hooks and downloads we need to make our forums awesome. @5ive and @Shadow are working hard on restoring the forums and making it a lot more organized and easy to use. The next few days you will see major improvements. There are some things that you can claim back:

If you have a thread that you lost and would like to post it again without rewriting it, refer to this: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/3-recovering-your-posts/

If you want your forums points that you earned transfered to your new forums account here, refer to this: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/58-claim-forum-points/

If you are requesting your donator or forums rank back, refer to this: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/87-request-your-rank/

On the bright side, we hit a record of 85 registrations in less than 10 hours Hopefully we will see great things to come with our brand new and improved forums. Themes and such are still being tweaked so please be patient.

Next, we now have gone over the rewards and events and @philelelele 's schedule is now posted in his Events section ( http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/91-weekly-event-schedule/ ). Here you can find all you need so that you will not be missing out on these awesome events. Get ready for a great time with the community! We will also be implementing a beautiful calender with a more user friendly way of viewing and scheduling the events. Can't wait to see you!

Lastly, we have an awesome new game mode that people have long been awaiting, THE IRON MAN MODE! Test your abilities and chose the hardest game mode possible when creating a new account. This is a very competitive game mode and will appear on the highscores very soon.

WARNING: If caught getting items on an iron man mode account from a regular player account, the iron man account will be permanently disabled. Cheating on an extremely competitive mode is unacceptable and we have enough information logged to know whether an item is legitimate or not.

You guys may appreciate these updates today, I pin pointed things that were of great importance and turned one of the worst days possible into something more positive.

1/8/15
- Fixed an exploit with staff pin being avoided.
- White Portal FFA is now up and running, in preparation for awesome events!
- Increased a lot of security all over the server.
- Enhanced the trade logs, now extremely detailed for security reasons.
- We now have a legit IPBoard Lisence (woo hoooo!)
- New forums set up, new theme, MAJOR CONSTRUCTION.
- New Wilderness registration system to keep track of who is in the Wilderness so bugs can't be abused.
- Iron Man mode can now be selected in Character Creation.
- Players in Iron Man mode have no Strength Cap and Increased Drop Rates on rare items.
- Added in all the Iron Man restrictions, giving the game mode it's meaning.
- Iron Man will be in the highscores very soon, don't worry.

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/95-iron-man-mode-white-portal-and-more/

 

Hey I cant get the game to load idk if its trying to load java from the wrong path or what it gives me a press any key error in the compiler.
The webpage doesnt let me run the client and I havent gotten a registration email so i cant check the bugs forum

 

Try the regular client.jar on the website

So, I planned on releasing a lot today such as fixes and what not, however my computer decided to act up and I can't finish coding the updates. That means there are unfinished things on the server right now and I can't restart. I will post the updates tomorrow and I will try to fix up my computer and finish the updates in the morning. Sorry for the inconvenience!

 

I apologize my absence for the afternoon/night. I have 5 midyears and 4 projects this week, and I need to get ahead of my game so that I am not suffering. So, the last half of the day was consumed with school work and then tomorrow may be busy as well.

However good news, two actually. First of all, Stealing Creations beta v2 occurred today and it is absolutely fun. Most of the bugs from the first beta were patched and the game is running ALOT more smoothly (can still be tested by donators). I just have a few more things to fix and finish then it will be released to the public.

Secondly, I am very happy to have heard from @Chloe today, and since things started to smooth out for him, Chloe is now returning to the Elveron team. Many people may not know who Chloe is because he had to leave quite a while a go, more than a month ago due to events in real life that Chloe didn't want to effect the server. We thought that was the last we would see of Chloe on Elveron, however I was so excited to hear back today. Chloe has EXTREMELY helped us with the stability of our server in the past and has successfully kept Elveron up and running. Now what was Chloe's job? Chloe was our first and only technician of the server. Chloe did any technical tasks such as maintaining hardware on the Dedicated Server, guiding me through the process of converting our server environment from Windows to Linux, properly allocating our resources and network for smoother performances, fixing issues with the server including solving nulls and such when I am not available, etc. Chloe does a lot and was immensly recognized for his work when he was around and we will get started tomorrow when I wake up and have another chat with him.

1/9-10/15
- Fixed a null pointer with ground items
- Players that could not create Iron Man mode accounts can now properly.
- Iron Man NPC drops no longer stick to the ground forever.
- Added some more restrictions to prevent Iron Man smuggles.
- Players no longer lose items in the White Portal.
- Remade skillcape requirements cause Fox is bae...
- Added in accept aid for Lunar Spells (because people like to group veng everyone).
- Accept Aid can now be toggled in Settings.
- Rewrote a lot of Castle Wars in preparation for Phil's big event!
- Added a ::kdr command to see kills and deaths along with a ratio.
- There are also PKing highscores found in Edgeville.
- Gravestones that were not letting certain game modes pick up items are solved.
- MAJOR MAJOR STEALING CREATIONS WORK DONE, SO CLOSE!

Thread Link: http://elveron.org/community/index.php?/topic/183-accept-aid-minigames-and-fixes/