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Clan Wars
It's been a source of concern for many players that the free-for-all arenas would discourage people from using the Wilderness. We originally developed the free-for-all arenas in the days when the Wilderness didn't permit PVP combat, and before PVP worlds were available; Old School RuneScape does allow Wilderness PVP, and we think we could give you PVP worlds if you liked, so perhaps there's not so much need for the Clan Wars free-for-all arenas in OSRS.
That brings us to the challenged battles. We're a bit limited here by what the game engine can do for chat-channels; most of the systems we used to write Clan Wars were originally added to the engine for the development of LootShare, late in 2007, so they're not available in Old School RuneScape. Instead, we could write a version of Clan Wars that identifies teams by some other criterion, such as the capes they wear.
With the teams no longer linked to the chat-channels, clan leaders might need some alternative way to prevent gatecrashers from interfering with their battles. For example, players entering the arena could be held in a lobby until the clan leader accepts their request to enter.
Another technical difficulty in implementing Clan Wars is the lack of a suitable arena, since the original Clan Wars arena hadn't been created in August 2007, and we haven't had a map editor that could work on the 2007-format map files. However, some of the tricks we invented while working on Nightmare Zone could be applied here to make a basic arena for Clan Wars, and once we're working with our long-awaited map editor we could quickly create you a better choice of arenas, like RS3 has.
If you'd like Clan Wars in Old School RuneScape, and you'd be prepared to accept a version that didn't work off the chat-channels, we'd be very happy to work on this for you.
Clan Wars
It's been a source of concern for many players that the free-for-all arenas would discourage people from using the Wilderness. We originally developed the free-for-all arenas in the days when the Wilderness didn't permit PVP combat, and before PVP worlds were available; Old School RuneScape does allow Wilderness PVP, and we think we could give you PVP worlds if you liked, so perhaps there's not so much need for the Clan Wars free-for-all arenas in OSRS.
That brings us to the challenged battles. We're a bit limited here by what the game engine can do for chat-channels; most of the systems we used to write Clan Wars were originally added to the engine for the development of LootShare, late in 2007, so they're not available in Old School RuneScape. Instead, we could write a version of Clan Wars that identifies teams by some other criterion, such as the capes they wear.
With the teams no longer linked to the chat-channels, clan leaders might need some alternative way to prevent gatecrashers from interfering with their battles. For example, players entering the arena could be held in a lobby until the clan leader accepts their request to enter.
Another technical difficulty in implementing Clan Wars is the lack of a suitable arena, since the original Clan Wars arena hadn't been created in August 2007, and we haven't had a map editor that could work on the 2007-format map files. However, some of the tricks we invented while working on Nightmare Zone could be applied here to make a basic arena for Clan Wars, and once we're working with our long-awaited map editor we could quickly create you a better choice of arenas, like RS3 has.
If you'd like Clan Wars in Old School RuneScape, and you'd be prepared to accept a version that didn't work off the chat-channels, we'd be very happy to work on this for you.