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On the advertising side, i'd make a point to identify that this server has RS3 Content with NO EOC. Emphasize that somehow, i.e: Want to play RS3 Content & the newest bosses without EOC? Admittedly I skipped over this server many times because this is what I saw on the advertisement page: 8 fully functioning skills (including Divination, Invention & Archaeology), All 3 Elite Dungeons, An authentic server with NO customs. Mining & Smithing rework, Wilderness slayer, I immediately NOPED, until I realized that there is no EOC system in this game.

I have been here since day dot. Whether it is 1 person on the server (me) or 100+, Sand what you do, are doing somehow makes me want to stay. Keep doing what you are doing. I think I have played this more than RS3 in regards to continuous play w/o breaks. That's saying something. I have even had an account wipe/server reset and still play. No matter what people will always want more, quick, fast and needy. It's the generation of today, we are so used to -instant- Create content that would make you want to play and the followers will soon come behind :)

Zanik is an adventurous and bold cave goblin of the Dorgeshuun tribe who was chosen by Bandos to be his Chosen Commander puppet. Like all Dorgeshuun, she lives in Dorgesh-Kaan, the tribe's subterranean city beneath Misthalin, in the north-eastern part of the city, between the nursery and the Dorgeshuun Council's meeting room. After Archaeology she became the Warforge digsite manager, where you can find her. She also has a big trunk.

You know who I am. IGN is Sterling G/Sterling and Sterling is also is my real name. I come from Indiana and with not a lot to do here, I spend a bunch of time on here. Majoring in Structural Welding. PvM Prodigy with horrible pet luck. Ask me anything if you're interested in knowing more!

Welcome to Velheim, @sterling! Hope you enjoy your stay

surge/ bladed dive (speed up the tempo of the game) quick home teles ( utilized through vis wax) use of the full globetrotter outfit (gloves don't work) being able to use more than 1 eof *weekend events* certain bosses get highlighted and for a few hours they get increase drop rates minigames give 2x points loot share masses including ironmen slayer point shop - increase superiors spawn rate, being able to prefer and extend being able to reset auras through reaper points (or maybe even having the Ring of death lose charges when you die but you keep aura and familiar) Different donator zones or "perks" above diamond. currently there's not really an incentive to excel above diamond ( rank wise ) add nihils and ripper demon familiars to the game make khopeshs a slash weapon being able to access the "wars retreat boss shop" Gizmo bags MORE BANK SPACE above 806

Goal of mine is to hit 200m in all skills on my novice account, I have a regular, novice, and classic, I put alot of work into my classic but found myself getting less and less intrested in playing and always found myself coming back to my novice, for me it's not super easy like regular and not a all out grind like classic. So I've prestiged 5 times now, but now I plan on hitting all 200m in every skill before I do it again. So wish me luck!

Oh... my god.

Dont open if underage..

hey new player sterling im glad you made an introduction if you need any help in game you know where to go

arcadiez what the fuck is this

Armour equipped by players will no longer have specific weaknesses to stab, slash, or crush attacks that are made by other players. Monsters will continue to have weaknesses to specific attack types. Additionally, some monsters will have weaknesses to specific Magic spell elements, such as water spells.

Hey Sand, first of all I gotta say I Love this server and im playing like 5-12 hours Everyday. I was also sad and depressed with the player count dropping because I never want this server to close. Its the Best private server i have ever played. My suggestions are: - Ive read several comments about people saying that staff members were a Little harsh on some players, saying they Dint need them, or if you dont like the server just leave etc. I would change that. I Know It could be hard recieving comments from people saying chance this, change that, It sucks. Or whatever, but if I were in your spot I would def, try to change that (I Know It's Hard). - Add More requirements to the comp/Trimmed cape and maybe even add a New cape (ultra trimmed cape) in which for Example you need to have All the Game perks unlocked, pets, All animations, turn in atleast 1 of certain gear or Hard ítems (for Example all phats, noxious gear etc), all tittles unlocked and maybe get rewarded with either VC/Loyalty points for every achievement completar or some new tokens with a new shop. - I would defenitly add More news announcements for total XP reaching (for Example ARGENTINA HAS REACHED 1 BILLION TOTAL XP IN CLASSIC MODE. also if any day u do add More trimmed comp requirements or a new ultra cape like I Saíd, announcements on completing certain Hard requirements would be nice. For Example. Argentina has finished turning in all ítems requirements for ultra comp cape. - would be nice if for classic accounts and all accounts if U could add a simbol in front just Like When U talk for Example, but when they right click you so they Know Ur classic without having to talk. - Nerf up thieving Stalls for sure a bit higher and make new money making methods maybe. Make It so that you cant be With same accounts doing same thing. That Way, they dont burn a money making method. -Maybe make Donation Well individual. For Example 20m to turn it on for 2 Hours but for individual boost. This will remove a lot of cash making it possible to add other ways of making cash and it not ruining eco ( I think) . - Make boss drops More rare - Not sure if This is possible or if people would like It, but maybe add 200m XP cape which real runescape has not even made.. But if thats possible.. Maybe thats an optión. I would nerf regular MODE 200X and make It max 50x and chance novice to x25. Not sure if thats possible because of prestiging effects. But maybe if someone prestiged 4 times in x200, they would only Have 15 Prestige levels. If thats not possible, just add new modes like people mentioned in other comments. - Make events like, double slayer points on weekends and what other People mentioned in comments above about this. - Add lottery system for sure , Gambling no. It will make a lot of people join, but also a lot of people quit. In the long run, More people will quit I think. Its Hard for me to say this, but im addicted to Gambling. I Don't Want to end up quitting because of that. - I would def get someone to help you with Coding etc. Not sure if U Know someone irl which U could trust or idk. But for you mental health it will Be Good for you. - I would def do another KOTS event at some point but advertirse More with youtubers if U can and on vote websites. It will make server More Known. - When you vote, make It so that every once in a while you have a chance of getting double vote points from a certain vote if It's possible or some Coins (for Example 10M).that would encourage more people to vote probably which will result in More votes and More people in game. Sand, I hope this suggestions help you. Maybe some are stupid. I dont consider my self super inteligent. Please stay healthy and calm, im sure you can make a Heck of a better server than it already is.

Yeah gambling ruins servers

I can say after leaving for a few months and finally coming back... I can see potentially why population has declined. The 15 minute AFK timeout has probably made it drop at LEAST 60 or so at any given time. (I know i used to take naps and afk) It seems like there is a lot less people in the help chats and the server has fractured into a lot of clan chats instead, and some of those clans probably scared people off. Some people seem to have forgotten that at ED2 release the Eldritch crossbow was only temp till ED3 came out. Maybe replace it with Blight-bound? Theres also the issues that a lot of countries have returned to somewhat normalcy and people would rather go be outside with their friends than inside grinding on a rsps. I also feel like... maybe there's a bit too much to do for new players? I had a friend join recently and he said the tutorial overwhelmed him with all the text. It been a long time since I did the tutorial so IDK what exactly it is anymore lol. Prestiging seems to burn some people out too. I know I was all hype for 200m all, but now that I've got it... there's a lot of pressure to prestige but I also don't want to do the grind all over again. I've seen people prestige and then never come back. If you introduced Gambling in some form I feel like you'd lose more people in the long run as they would be cleaned or scammed somehow and then subsequently quit.

I'm sitting in the salon waiting to get my hair cut so thought I'd add my 2p to this while I'm here, will probably edit when I get home to add more. First and foremost, @Sandstorm I applaud you on creating and curating this server, it's an often thankless task, I know from experience (have dev/run my own server and been admin of a couple of big ones in another game) People complaining 24/7 can really get you down. Please, please don't let it make you think Velheim is dead, it's still up there in the top lists and you've asked earlier than later for help from a community that is (mostly) full of decent people with a love for your version of this game. We can climb back up! I'd like to echo what some people have said, I'll tl;dr the points I agree with: 1.Bosses/pvm is too easy at endgame. 2. Said endgame is viewed as "easy" to get to 3. There's little in between being a poor noobie and afk bossing all day 4. Combat is very 2D, meaning it's get 2h or go home 5. Adding other little events between the big flagship ones like KotS, Beach and 3x is a great idea, liking a lot of the suggestions here. 6. Polls are a great idea and I agree with only poll between options you're willing to do. Other things that I don't agree with or haven't been said already: 1. Please for the love of Guthix don't add gambling! As an easy fix, it works in the short term, but it's faddy and it will bring in mostly people who make throwaway accounts to see if they can gamble/cheat/cheese a ton of gp from people. If they do, they'll stay, but if they don't, they'll leave again and short term players don't build a good playerbase. That in turn, doesn't foster a good community that will stay and donate because they enjoy the server. 2. For events, you might want to consider making one of your current staff or hiring another person to be an Events Manager. Their role would be to formulate and run little community events regularly between the big ones. Of course all of them would be approved by you for content and rewards, but it would take some stress off of you. 3. Skilling content is a little bit bland. This is quite personal for me as I'm not a bosser yet. There's some good suggestions in this thread and I'd like to add maybe make the skilling pets give a small boost, 1-3% to the corresponding skill when they're summoned. That would give people a little more incentive to get them and to summon them instead of having an army of Mortys and boss pets at skilling locations. 4. More interaction on the forum, maybe some forum based events, art contests, themed costume contests, monthly quizzes, stuff that gets people involved in the community as a whole rather than just the game. They don't have to have big prizes, because they're supposed to be pretty easy, but little prizes that are seen as reachable by the everyday player are really attractive. Like the constructive feedback posts, there's actually a ton of people here who are willing to help out, get involved and not just complain! That's so rare in a PS community!

I feel like people have covered most things already, so I'll add my two cents. I'll also sub categorise them people can skip over the stuff that they may feel would have no impact on them. 1: Altscaping and Raw Gp. I agree that the thieving stalls, pyramid plunder and gold drops should be upped again. The answer almost every single new person asks is 'how can I make money' and I don't really have many answers (I do but I don't want everyone and there altscapes farming the crap out of it until it becomes dead content), which leads me to my first suggestion, upping gold drops, thieving/plunder cash I would also heavily re-consider the alt scaping rule and possibly lowering the number of accounts online per mac to 2 accounts (I know when it was suggested to lower it from 5 way back we had more people suggesting it to be as low as 2) or adding a new clause to the rules that if you are to log in with multiple accounts you are not allowed to do the same content type on both at the same time (because we need our charge farms tbh), I've seen this on other servers to discourage farming and as long as it's made clear it tends to work out alright, it will put extra work on the staff team of cause but I feel something should also happen to prevent us going back to being alt scape with 300 online with 150 of them being afk farms or people just afk in general. I don't think the server feels dead, it's just the 15min afk timer kicks peoples alts of because they forget about them, I feel the timer to kick should possibly be removed and it should just be made so that you stop gaining loyalty points if farming points was the issue. 2: The suggestions section. It's currently in shambles, I've had a look over the 9 pages and quite honestly just close them all or add a new achieve folder and put them in there until someone wants to read and sort them. There are suggestions that have been added, bug reports in there and suggestions that are just posted x amount of times. Rather than having people post suggestion threads, I'd consider having 1 thread as the old bug reports were and people comment on that thread and that thread alone for there suggestions, give moderators the ability to edit and delete other peoples posts (big up yggdrasil) so that as people post on this there comments can be deleted and the suggestion can be added to the main (first) post making it easier to manage what has already been suggested and giving the staff team more ability on the forums, so they can help you siphon through them and make sure there are not multiple suggestions for the same things or bug reports posted into suggestions. If a suggestion stands out and you feel it should have community input, have a staff member open a poll thread that'll auto lock it's self (like give away posts do) after x amount of time, giving people time to vote on bigger/higher impact suggestions. 3: Skilling and PVM updates. As sterling has said, I would LOVE, LOVE 120 herblore and farming but, I know this would take a huge amount of resource and time to do. There is a skilling community here on velheim and we are very much alive, we just muddle along and continue our skilling providing resources, charges, potions and what ever else the pvmers need, the past major updates have been pvm focused which is great, everyone needs updates, but just people people are loud it does not mean they should be a priority an example, for the amount of people that were asking for elite dungeons, I am extremely disappointed with the amount of people that run them, most people have only ran for the completionist requirements leaving only a handful of dedicated pvmers actually benefiting from the content. If you are at a cross roads, I would suggest again making a poll, would you prefer me to put my resouces and time into Elite dungeon 3 this month orthen digsite or big game hunter, all of which offer new content and items (elritch cbow for ed, maul from hunter, new powers from orthen) because we know that you physically can't do everything at the pace people expect so having 2-3 large pieces of development for people to vote on as your next project would be great (inb4 people start saying gwd3 when). 4: Gambling. I've said and i'll always say, gambling is something that requires people to be of legal age to do. If you want to gamble there are other places you can do so, it's removed on runescape and I don't feel it has any place in the rsps scene and the youtubers that make 20min+ gambling videos on servers make me cringe, please don't let us be on that list. However, I would be open to having a lottery system if people want that. I mean, this pretty much sums it up, having people just log in to gamble would help how..? 5: PVP. Ignore most people that suggest pvp content, suggestions for adding skilling stuff to wilderness and npcs is not pvp content (This is similar to when people wanting ed3 and those people don't run it, unless it's something you are going to do people, please don't waste your time or sands time on pointless suggestions or saying +1 for some shit you'll never do, I can't stress this enough #rantover). This is just adding more stuff that wont be used (cst wildy stars are mainly ignored), I'm sure Lush and whom ever else might be in the pvp scene don't want to have more content added so they can go shoot fish in a barrel (naked people that go with no risk just for the xp gain) I doubt that's any fun for them in the long run. If you want to improve the wilderness scene here have a sit down with active pvpers (lush) or people who actively do stuff in the wilderness (that dude with the wildy locked ironman) and hash out some ideas of what they'd think would attract pkers to the server since it's there community. I don't have much time to touch on other stuff *work zzzz* But sterling has touched on everything (I have removed stuff that is irrelevant to me and left just this stuff that i'd like to see and the stuff i'd actually use in the spoiler apart from the 2nd dev, also removed this. People are arseholes and most of them would do anything to get there hands on velheim to sell it for a quick buck, it's happened over and over in the past in the development scene, no matter how well or trust worthy you think someone is they rob 5k in donations and sell the source and client .-.), thanks for taking the time to go over everything @sterling Adjust Dual Wielding; It is outclassed almost no matter what by 2h and is completely neglected. Special shout out to this one though, Dual Wielding has been like this since the 2 hit update for 2h and i'd honestly thing more would have been done by now for a better balance between them.

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Very nice, I am so glad I got most of the Archaeology early on, and I saw Sand recently adding one of my suggestions, with quicker teleports when in the digsites, if you have unlocked it. Which will be so much better for Archaeology in the future!