Controls - Clan Chat
The clan chat interface can be accessed by clicking on the icon in the bottom left of your sidebar interface. This lets you chat with your friends and clan-mates in a private channel: ideal for those expeditions to the Wilderness, fighting in Castle Wars or just keeping in touch as you work on your skills in various locations around RuneScape.
Setting up a Clan Channel
To start chatting, you'll need to either set up your own channel or join one that someone else has made. You can do this by clicking on one of these buttons:When you click the Join Chat button you will be prompted to enter the name of someone who has set up a chat channel. If you enter a name that does not exist or has not set up a chat channel you will not be able to join a chat channel (there are a few other reasons you might not be able to join outlined further on). Otherwise, you should find yourself in a chat channel within a minute.
Other reasons you may not be able to join a chat channel include:
- You are on the channel owner's ignore list
- You do not have a high enough rank in the clan
- The channel is full and you do not rank higher than anyone already chatting
- You have recently been kicked from the chat channel
When you click on the Clan Setup button you will be presented with an interface like this:
The people you see in the centre of the interface are those people on your friends list, so if you have a clan member that you'd like to be able to assign a rank, you will need to add them to your friends list. You can set your clan chat channel to allow anyone to join - allowing players that aren't on your friends list to join - but you will not be able to assign them a rank, and they may be kicked if the channel is full and a ranked clan member joins.
Clan name
This button enables you to give your chat channel a name. This will identify chat on this channel when it appears in your chat box. Your chat channel will not work until you assign it a name. |
Who can enter chat?
You can set this to allow only ranked members of your clan to join your chat channel, or leave it open to anyone. If you adjust this to increase the rank required while people below that rank are in your chat channel, they will be kicked off when the change takes affect. |
Who can talk on chat?
You can set this to allow some people to talk while others can only observe. This could be useful if you have a message that you want everyone to see without other chat pushing it up the chat box too quickly. |
Who can kick on chat?
By adjusting this, you can give other members of your clan the ability to 'kick' people out of the chat. There is more on 'kicking' below. |
Who can share loot?
When you are a multicombat area you can set this to let only a specific rank share loot while LootShare is on (see below for more details about loot sharing). |
The first thing to do when setting up your channel is to name it. This is the name that will appear next to any chat made inside the channel, which will help you identify that something is being said in that discussion, as opposed to public chat or private messages from your friends. No one will be able to use the channel until it has a name. Be aware that characters with accents (ö, ä, etc.) will not be displayed. Any word normally blocked by the chat filter will also be blocked for use as a channel name and using offensive words to name your chat channel will be punished with black marks.
Please note that any changes you make to your clan chat options will take up to a minute to go into effect.
The other fields on the left show their default settings. If you wish to change those settings, simply right-click to bring up the other options, which you can see to the left. As you can see, these are the rank restrictions you can apply to each category. These ranks should be varied enough for you to customise your chat channel exactly the way you want it.
Note that a Jagex Moderator can always join a chat, will always be able to chat on it, and can kick any player off the chat. In your favour, though, you can assign them any rank you want!
To assign ranks to your clan, right-click on their rank in the main section of the interface. This will bring up the options you see to the right. The owner of the chat channel can adjust these ranks as they see fit. It's probably a good idea to allow a couple of other people to kick players from the chat, just in case you're a bit busy slaying some mighty beast or are offline.
Once you have set up your chat channel, your interface should look something like the one below:
Judging from its name, this clan is obviously one that fights solely with the cooking weapons earned from Recipe for Disaster!
In this example, you can see that the player 'Friends' cannot enter the Spoons chat channel, that the player 'Clan Mates' is able to kick other users off the chat channel, and that 'These' and 'Friends' will be unable to share loot with the rest of the group.
Anyone assigned a rank or on the owner's friends list will also have the following icons in the clan chat list:
| Friend |
Recruit |
Corporal |
Sergeant |
| Lieutenant |
Captain |
General |
Channel owner |
If a chat channel is full, lower-ranked players can be dropped from the chat when a higher rank joins. This means that the owner will always be able to join, and that players who are not on the channel owner's friends list will be removed first, followed by unranked friends and so on. Up to 100 players can be in a chat channel at any one time.
Using the Chat Channel
As noted earlier, you must click 'Join chat' and type in the name of the channel owner to access a clan chat channel. Be aware that you must do this even if you are the channel owner. Also be aware that you can join a chat channel even if the owner is offline. This is another good reason to have a few people that can kick from chat if you are offline.
To use the chat channel, all you need to do is type before anything you write. If you are connected to a channel this will automatically be sent to everyone else in the chat.
To leave the chat again, simply click the 'Leave chat' button that has replaced the 'Join chat' button.
If someone is abusing the chat channel and breaking any of the Rules of Conduct, they can still be reported as normal.
Kicking People from Chat
If you find that someone is abusing a chat channel, and you have the privilege, you can 'kick' them from the chat. To do this, right-click on the player's name and select 'Kick'. This will drop them from the channel and prevent them from joining again for one hour. You can only kick a player with a lower rank than yourself - the owner ranks above everyone in this regard.
Note that if everyone leaves the chat channel, then all 'kicks' will be lifted and those players will be able to join again.
If you'd like to keep someone from joining your chat channel, you can place them on your ignore list. This will prevent them from ever joining your clan chats. If you wish to allow them to enter again, simply remove them from your ignore list.
LootShare
LootShare is an entirely optional way for you and your clan to share monster drops in multiway combat areas. The sharing of items is fair, and is designed to ensure that everyone receives an equivalent value of rewards over a period of time. This system cannot be used for drops gained by player-killing.
How to set up a LootShare Clan Chat channel:
The owner of a Clan Chat channel (see the top of the page for how to set one up) can activate LootShare on the bottom-left of his Clan Setup menu. The owner can then decide who LootShare is available to, by selecting a rank. Everyone of this rank or above can activate LootShare and receive drops in multiway combat areas.
Note: Any monster drops are allocated to the clan or player who has done the most damage to the creature. For this reason, LootShare can only be activated on certain worlds. This is so that solo adventurers do not have clans gathering the majority of rewards.
How to start LootShare:
To join an existing LootShare clan, you must be of a suitable rank, be on a LootShare world and be on the correct clan channel. Once you have satisfied these conditions, you can click on the grey bag of loot in the sidebar of your Clan Chat interface. After a short period of time (during which your loot icon will have an hourglass over it), you will be able to LootShare with your friends!When a monster dies, you will be informed if you have received the drop, so you can go and collect it. See below for an example of how this message will be displayed.
If you are unlucky enough to receive a small, or less valuable, share of the monster's drops this time round, then you will be much more likely to receive a better share in the future. This way, everyone sharing loot should receive an equal share, given enough time! Note that the distribution of drops is based on the market value of items (as determined by players trading) rather than the shop price.
LootShare will not allow untradeable items to drop, as these are either quest items or items that should be earned by an individual player and not a group.
Note: You must be within 16 squares of a kill to receive any rewards from it.
How does the Lootshare system ensure 'fairness'?
When an item is dropped, its value is calculated using the Grand Exchange. Each player is given a 'virtual' share of that value in LootShare points. The system then chooses a player to receive the drop. The system looks at the points for all players in the group and whoever has the most LootShare points stands the greatest chance of getting the drop.
The person who gets the drop then 'pays' for the drop in those same points, thus reducing the chance that player will get the next drop. So, if someone else in your group gets a valuable drop, your LootShare points and chances for the next drop increase a lot. If they get a less valuable drop, your points increase by less.
These points are stored from game session to session, but they will tend towards zero by a percentage every day. |
