Many, many RuneScape players have been in at least one clan in the online world of our fantasy life stealing game. However, how many of us have actually considered running a clan of our own? No, I’m not on about a cheap, ill-mannered, ill-planned attempt at creating a solid base and abandoning the project after a few days. I’m thinking more of the lines as to having a very popular thread on the official forums, a website for your clan, around 15 people online in a VoIP at any given time, an event per day that churns up many dedicated players to ensure everyone has a ‘whale of a time’ (man I love that saying!) and to have many clan-to-clan wars.
Basic Understanding Of Clans
To begin, you need to grasp what a gaming clan actually is, what it involves, how it is created (and managed), what happens day to day and how to recruit members. Online gaming guilds/clans/communities (which ever you prefer to choose, RuneScape normally go with clans) started with gaming over the Internet, it wasn’t introduced in RuneScape, nor is it part of the game itself. The main idea for these uprising gangs of people at keyboards was to come together to enhance their enjoyment and experience of that covered game, while participating in events, going all out against other erected clans and create a name for each other.
That being said, the same principle and reasons behind today’s RuneScape clans are exactly the same. Let’s start this off at a nice, steady pace with a few points to consider:
- Time: You need to make sure you have enough time on your hands to dedicate to your clan, also consider time zones.
- Communication: What will your clan use to communicate? The in-game Clan Chat is almost useless, possible VoIP solution?
- Hierarchy: Careful consideration is required in deciding how your clan ranks will be structured.
- Members: You need to have an application, requirements, maybe even a trial to ensure all your recruits are the best.
- Events: What will you guys do? Clan events will need to be organized to daily, weekly and monthly occurrences.
- Location: Where will your home be? You may need to consider a website, meeting place in-game and other geographic possibilities.
RuneScape itself doesn’t have the best clan features available, but they are in the process of fixing this. Hopefully sooner rather than later. I really do think there needs to be greater clan management, maybe even built in VoIP functionality and other basic features that other games already implement (which is a big downside of RuneScape in my opinion). However, there are many events that your clan can do once created, these can include the following:
- Castle Wars
- Clan Wars
- Revenant Hunting
- King Black Dragon Slaying
- Barbarian Assault
- Pest Control
- PvP/Bounty Hunter
- House Party
- Skill Grinding
- TzHaar Fight Pit
- Kalphite Queen Hunting
Planning
First step on your clan creating journey is to figure out what on Earth you are going to do! This huge task isn’t one to go rushing into, nor is it to start right away without thinking about the sacrifices you will be making: for example, you will have a lot less time for your own needs, you really do need to have a steady income of gold. You need to strongly consider the serious time dedicated your clan will need. To begin planning, have a look around my blog, some other RuneScape blogs, help sites, fan sites and maybe some articles on clans to really get a good, solid background on RuneScape clans themselves.
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