Sunday, July 23, 2006

Dark Slayers Prevail

Dark Slayers clan (plus future applicants) claimed victory in a 1 vs 3 clan handicap battle.

Dark Slayers and their future applicants had arranged a battle with the Wilderness Guardians (plus their juniors), Cursed Lands and Rune Raiders (plus their juniors).

The summary of the battle is as follows:

Times

Fight began - 7:30 PM
Fight Ended - 8:00 PM
Total Fight time - 30 minutes.

Statistics

Ds starting options - 399 (190 people)
WG starting options - 330(confirmed)
CL starting options - 220(confirmed)
RR starting options - 250(confirmed)
Ds ending options - 350+

The battle itself was blighted by the presence of the dreaded looter (apparently 120 of them) - In runescape a looter is basically someone too much in love with collecting pixels to get serious about helping a clan improve its wilderness presence.

This showing by DS does tell the clan world that Dark Slayers have a strong future ahead of them due to their future applicant programme. This programme, or similar ones, has been implemented by the majority of the top clans including my own clan, Sacred Templars.

Congratulations Dark Slayers, and hard luck to the other clans who fought in this battle - although it does give a lot of lower level people invaluable battle experience that should ensure the growth and prosperity of their own clans respectively.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Clan Member Lists

In the past, there have been some websites that have tried to get a good clan listing system in place but have since gone down and are no longer maintained.

Currently, there is only one site that I am aware of that is still being maintained and also gives a very solid database for players to check out other clan member lists. The site I am referring to is the RuneScape HighScores Catalogue.

For any players that are not familiar with how the highscores catalogue works, it is primarily used by clans to maintain their members and also get an indication of the overall strength of their clan.

At the time of writing this post, the current top 10 on the clans list is:
runescape clans top 10
As you can see, this is a summary of some of the things that are considered in evaluating who actually are the top 10 clans in Runescape. The number of players in the clan, the average skill level, the average hitpoint level and the average combat level are all factors that can be considered. However, there is no point a clan having all the best averages if they have no activity, and as such, this is a very useful resource regarding runescape clans - but it again cannot give an actual answer to which clans are the top 10 in runescape.

It is invariably the opinion of people at the end of the day that will have their own top 10 clans, and it is fun at times to see how peoples opinions change over time and how actual clans develop as a result of clan leader decisions.

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Free to play - Clan Uniform

Generally all clans will have a basic clan uniform based on melee. In the free to play wilderness, melee is the most predominant fighting style and therefore most clans will expect their members to be fighting in full uniforms.

Free to Play PK Gear The basic uniform is generally full rune equipment with a rune scimitar as the weapon of choice. The cape colour will vary depending on which clan you belong to while some clans may not insist on the leather boots or the green dragon vambraces. This uniform has been an accepted part of clans for a long time. However, the recent new boots for free to play may become part of the uniforms due to having slightly better stats than the basic leather boots. In general, if a clan wears the same uniform they are less likely to attack each other in the heat of battle, although it does happen from time to time.

free to play food inventoryIn addition to Clan Leaders insisting on members wearing an appropriate uniform, they will normally also insist on having a basic inventory of food and potions. On free to play servers this is normally 1 basic strength potion and 27 cooked Swordfish as players on free to play servers cannot use any other potions at this time. Some clans may opt for 2 basic strength potions and fill the remaining inventory with cooked lobster. The choice is purely down to the clan leader and council.

Overall, if a clan does not have a uniform of some sort they will be weaker due to the fact not everyone will always bring the best equipment available to them. If people are not wearing decent equipment, or if they dont wear a full uniform, then collectively as a unit, they will have lower overall strength, defense and power.