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NOTE: This is a copy & paste of an email that was sent to all members, but I wanted to make a public copy for all to read & comment on here. Let me know your thoughts! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2021 Year-in-Review Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to each and every one of you. I would like to start with this; I know emails can come off very impersonal but it's very personal to me. I know a lot of you that read this on a personal level. I've spoken to many of you one way or the other. Either through Discord, the forums or in-game. When I am writing this email, I'm writing this to you directly, each and every person individually. Ely is very personal to me and each member of this community is a friend of mine. With that said, I want to re-cap what Ely has done, accomplished & failed on this year. As well as discuss our plans moving forward into the new year. This has been Ely's 4th year since going online (officially 4 years in February/March 2022 actually) and that is a huge milestone for me/us. When I launched Ely in February 2018 I did not imagine at the end of 2021 I would be here writing an email to thousands of members recapping the year and how far we've come, it's crazy to me. I got you to thank for that, so thank you. Ely has become an absolute staple in RSPS when it comes to this revision. We've set the bar for this revision for time to come, and that's amazing. Let's get started with some miscellaneous statistics from Ely for the year 2021. Each of these stats below are for this past year only, not lifetime stats. Pretty insane, right? You guys knocked it out of the park. Over a quarter million visits to our website, over half a million times Ely appeared in Google search results, over 2.8 million drops were picked up from drops and over $100,000 were received from purchases. Absolute insanity, like I said - you guys knocked it out of the park this year. Also, 99 punishments issued? I guess I maxed my "Moderating" skill, finally. If you enjoyed statistics like this, let me know! For our 4-year anniversary I plan to post lifetime statistics from Ely & much more than what you see here. Up next, updates. This past year we introduced some of the largest, most incredible updates to the server we've ever done. Get your reading glasses on & let's recap. We started the year on January 6th with our introduction of the full Wiki available in-game with it's own dedicated tab. Players were now able to search drops, NPC stats, Clue Scroll tips, Grand Exchange offers and more while on the move. We followed that up with the ability to craft Armadyl Runes, increased cannon capacity via Slayer Rewards & a slew of bug fixes. Next up was the highly request bank overhaul, resulting in doubling the amount of bank storage players were able to hold as well as a bunch of miscellaneous sorting & withdrawing features. Next, we finally finished moving over the referral system to the new forums with another batch of bug fixes resolved. Following this we came out swinging new Discord commands, Vote Parties & Player Examine features - in this update we also reduced the amount of money required to start the Well of Goodwill. We instantly followed this update with another banger - the Achievement Diary with over 1,200+ achievements & a Summoning overhaul. This was also the month Splash completed our custom-made Cerberus set that was uber popular. Next up was an update that introduced the new quest "Camel's Boy" by Winter with the herblore-assisting NPC "Zahur" that changed the way that skill was trained forever, as well as another batch of bug fixes and more. As if we didn't have enough bangers yet, the following update was a more fully featured Runelite client, featuring countless quality of life updates, the first 718 ever to do it. After all these bangers, we pulled back and focused on the back-end of Ely. Stabilizing our client and performing efficiency updates silently. Then we came back swinging with 3 consecutive updates featuring nothing but bug fixes as we focused on stability and overall smoothing game play for everyone. When it was time for the next update we came out with a complete Farming rework as well as tons more bugs fixed (resulting in 17 pages worth of bug reports completed at this point). We followed this up with another massive list of fixes as well as a bunch of quality of life updates and changes. Then wouldn't you know it - we came out with yet another banger - the Upgrade Chest. The ability to sacrifice gear & items in exchange for gems to upgrade your existing gear & make it 10% stronger. This update also included the "Beginner's Amulet" which auto-upgrades new players gear from Iron to Rune while they train. Next up was yet another massive list of fixes, adjustments & the introduction of the Fire Max cape & Team capes. Also included in this update was the massive client update that allows players to now customize their own draw distance & better zooming! The following update was again, more bug fixes and also going back & adding disassembly options to all overrides. We came out swinging with another banger that included completely overhauling all our NPC's & the Magic skill and spellbooks. This update made Ely act & feel much more accurate than it did previously. Following this we released another highly requested update; Daily Challenges. Every day players now get assigned random tasks that are based off their account progress and a new shop to spend points earned in. The last two updates of the year were; more bug fixes of course & then "Perks" were introduced. This is the ability to purchase individual donor benefits (such as access to ;;Bank command) for a limited time without donating to reach the specific rank required for that benefit. As you can see, we stayed very busy this year. We posted a total of 20 patch notes which averages out to 1.6 updates per month. Ely is now in a state that is leaps & bounds ahead of any competing server in our revision. That begs the question then, what's next? Let me tell you. In the background we've recently began development on a web client. We even hired a dedicated developer for this. Why a web client, right? That's so 2012. Not quite. One of the most prevalent issues we've had over the years with Ely is client related. While we've largely eliminated most of these issues, some still persist. There a few barriers we must cross to on-board a player. One of the toughest is of course, discovery. The next issue is then getting them to download our client. Many people are skeptical of what they download on their PC, especially in RSPS. Then we have to hope they experience no trouble booting up our client. Often times when a player downloads Ely and experiences trouble, they just delete the client and move on. This is where a web client can resolve much of this. They find Ely and learn they don't have to download anything. They can load it right in their browser and give it a try before committing to it. Thus also eliminating any issues they may experience trying to load it from their PC. I've included a picture of a very early version still very much in development, web client I loaded on my iPhone. Yes, my iOS device. Yes, that is a picture of me playing Ely on an iPhone. This client has incredible potential, but we are months from release yet. I just wanted to showcase the potential this web client has. What else? Many of you may be aware we have spent a significant amount of time trying to get Chambers of Xeric to you. This is still very much in development, but due to it being such a large piece of content it takes a lot of time and resources. This is not something we can willy-nilly whip together, because no one would want to play a terrible CoX. We are making this as accurate as possible and bringing in many people who have a deep understanding & lots of experience doing CoX. With their help, we hope to make this as accurate as we can. It will take time, but we've already made incredible process & already have a version much more accurate to OSRS than most servers today. Couple months back we posted a progress / Development Blog update regarding this project, so if you would like to learn more and see some images of CoX in Ely, click here. On top of all the above, we have much more on our roadmap. We truly hope you'll be here to experience it all with us, because without you none of this is possible. Every player matters, every vote counts, every dollar makes a difference. You are the reason we are here almost 4 years later making incredible progress & seeing incredible numbers. If your already an active player, thank you so much. If you've played in the past & haven't been online recently - come visit us! I love seeing older players come online even just to say hey. With that said, thank you again. Seriously, what a year it has been. Next year is right around the corner and together we can crush even this year's records. LFG.

It brings a tear to my eye

Bug Fixes Kalphite Queen pet collection bug fixed (release pets and re-collect from pet manager to update) Examiner Assistant mining bug resolved Brimhaven fruit tree patch bug fixed Inferno Adze + Ring of fire / flame gloves bug fixed (XP granted upon log burning while cutting) Unfinished dragon bolts been removed on all drops with usable dragon bolts Looting bag + seed pouch stacking (noted) bug fixed Harmony/salvaion/corruption aura's fixed Crafting Onyx achievement fixed Pathing bug fixed (includes not being able to attack Blink in specific tiles, etc) Using Insta-Kill darts at corp (max damage cap) fixed Lucien HP in Monster Carnage fixed Enchanting dragonstone jewelry requiring 86 Magic fixed (now correctly requires 68) Attacking NPC out of range with darts, bug fixed Vyrewatch longsword made tradable (disassembly coming soon) Polypore/Ganodermic/PvP Items will now drop upon death instead of being deleted Wolpertinger pouch fixed Misc achievements fixed

Hello there. As my side project here is to add new armours/weapons. Ill be listing in this topic everything ive added in-game & where to find them! Lets start with Dragonstone Armour: King Black Dragon as of now drops ''armour shard''. The armour shard can be used to dragon full helm, dragon platebody, dragon platelegs, dragon boots, dragon gauntlets. This will give a slight advantage in stats over dragon armour. Obsidian Armour: This armour can be obtained from ::Tele Fight you can obtain these armour pieces by farming Tzhaars-Ket's that have a drop rate of 1/789, Kill NPC's in fights cave for tokkuls, Kill Jad for Tokkul rewards & buy the armour pieces in Tzhaar shop. 1 Armour piece sells for 500k tokkuls. The obisidan set doesnt provide the passive bonus yet but it has been replaced with +10 accuracy on all pieces. Elder Chaos Druids: The Elder Chaos Druids have been added in-game. You can find these Druids in Chaos Temple just south from graveyard of shadows. Swampbark & Bloodbark Armour: There is a small invasion in a Canifis village, ::Tele Burg to defeat the Uprising Evil Undead army and (miniboss) leader Evil Ash We might need that broomstick from Evil Ash. Swampbark: Bloodbark: (Armour will be adjusted later on for proper rs3 style so ignore the hands and head for now) Lumby Moo Moo: Moo moo mo moo momomo mooo moom oooom moooooo mooo moom ooo moo obtain by slaying moo's i mean moo moo moo ::tele lumb moo moo moo moo moo mooooooooooooooo Hailstorm Dagger: This dagger can be obtained in ::tele canifis. Enter the canifis bar and a man should be waiting to mug you. Abyssal Dagger (p++): This dagger can be obtained via Abyssal demons. Best way to obtain this is in ::Tele hell where you can cannon them. Mythical Max Cape: You can obtain a mythical cape from vorkath, combine the mythical cape to max cape and it creates a mythical max cape. Broomstick: Do i even need to explain Can be obtained from Evil ash at ::Tele Burg Snow imp costume: Evil santa was not very happy when he was not introduced as the evil villain in 2021 event so he sent his loyal minions to sabotage the christmas. The evil snow imps stole Lations christmas presents. You can find evil snow imps in ::Tele snow, on top of the snowy mountain near ice strykewyrms. (will be editing more)

Recently I created a new Hardcore Ironman, Hilarious. I thought it'd be funny to see what I can do without dying for once, so I'm out here making goals for my new baby. Goals: Not die.