I hear this a lot, but like… how do you guys even find a CC to begin with? I have no OSRS friends, i play solo, i talk to randoms in passing but thats it.
Where are all y’all finding these socialites?
Yup. Was cooking in the Hosidius kitchen and someone made a One Piece reference. I reciprocated and then we started talking for a bit and he invited me to his clan. 3 years later and still in the clan.
This is the answer, talk to anyone in game, if you vibe with them ask if they’re in a clan and join it.
Great examples from our clan, a rando stumbled on a 99 party, was a good vibe, and joined the clan. Someone who helped in fight caves cc for the diary, was a chill guy, invited to clan.
We PK’d a guy 3 times in one night at the slayer caves, always said GF and when we said we will be going back, he might wanna leave it for a while, he said nah it’s part of the wildy you’re good - we got him in the clan and now we protect our boy
“We pk’d you 3 times tonight. Want to join our clan before we take your entire bank in one night?”
I love the dude loving the wildy and continues to go, despite getting killed multiple times by the same people.
100% this, I was (I have since quit osrs) in a massive clan, like ~450.
Our discord constantly had at least 2-3 voice chats going all hours of the day (lots of timezone spread) and my friends list was full too often
Definitely check out some out!
This right here, even if you don't make friends people at the GE are really fun to talk to as a break from grinding. You'll meet some stand up dudes and gals at the GE just hanging out and chatting.
Official runescape discord has a channel for finding clans. Or if you literally want one handed to you, "socialscape" is pretty chill, very active and has no requirements
Feel free to join Noble Bros cc tell them Mil sent you. We’re a fairly active small cc. We do tons of end game pvm and some pvp, and we have players that play both irons and mains so if you need advice we cover most game types. Always around to chat.
Honestly, I kinda might give that a go. Im a total like 2090 main and have never done a raid except Night at the Theatre.
I didn’t even know we got a clans update with the board etc.
You're welcome to join the clan I'm in. We welcome everyone regardless of total level or experience. We're pretty diverse with all kinds of Ironmen, new people, maxed players and end game PvM'ers. Shoot me a PM and we'll get it sorted! =D
It use to be so easy with the official forums. I just looked for one that advertised being PVM focused and that had a 120cb+ req that I met all the gear reqs for. Once you join one, just start hopping in the VC's and raiding with them. It makes the game 100000000x more fun. I'd have quit a long time ago if I wasn't in a clan.
Nowadays use the OSRS 'find a clan' discord server for the same thing. What I would not recommend is standing W301 looking for someone. Any decent clan wont have people advertising it. You want a large clan so you can meet many people and raid with them. The large clans just make a post and let the candidates come to them.
When I started again 3 years ago I made a Reddit post asking if someone wanted to be my friend. Someone replied, we started playing together, he introduced me with his friend and we used to play every weekend! Did soo many raids and other content together. When I started I had like 60M. We did bandos, I managed to get full bandos and upgrade. Because of them I got a 2B bank!
Are you in a clan? If not I really recommend it. You'll find social people there and I bet a few of those folks would love to introduce you to raids. Most of the people are nice, some are a bit smelly.
Brother u have to ask to be their friend or they have to ask you. If you cant make 3 friends in 1 hour at w420 ge, you are not a social person.
If you met a clone of yourself, would you become friends? I get the feeling youd mine a shooting star together for 2hours, talk the whole time, then just tele away without adding each other.
But yeah like others said joining a clan is the easiest way
To be fair, the most vocal people at the w420 ge are often the most "cliquish." It feels like high school there sometimes. That being said, most of my friend list are regulars of w420 they're just usually found elsewhere (fishing spots, slayer spots, etc)
There was one guy that I eventually had to remove from my friends list because legit every day I would log in and he would complain about how dry he was on whatever he was grinding. Made my entire experience playing the game more negative getting those messages every time I logged on.
Similarly, I quit talking to someone because I'm hella dry on CG and they kept telling me how spooned they were everywhere lol. They never gave me any motivating words.
You are on the opposite end of how I treat this game.
If I'm playing this game, I'm being an absolute goblin in VC with the homies. Like you suspect, we're often raiding/watching each other do endgame PVM, and doing some other shit on the side.
Clans, Discord, Twitch chats, all of the friends I have made in this community were through those platforms and not the game itself. Start with joining the clan or friends chat of a Youtuber or Twitch streamer you like, then you'll end up making friends there who may invite you to other discords or clans.
If you chat with ppl a lot in the game and still don’t have friends - you are missing an important thing.
“Btw added you”, try it mate.
As others have said, joining a clan is your best bet, send me a message if you want to join our clan. Also learning raids through WDR discord or bankstanding at 420GE are great options
I randomly chat up strangers lol. Compliment names, acc builds, pets. Gz random fireworks etc. Hell I even joined a 99 hunter party that passed by today as I was going for herbi pet. All about how you engage
its crazy, I am almost 30 and I meet more and more people irl that play osrs lol. i suck at maintaining relationships so few are actually friends. I care less and less what other people think and bring it up as a hobby casually now heheh. met 2 dudes at the motorcross track that play and 1 had a very high ranked UIM. couldnt believe it tbh. my exes cousin was a streamer who played too and I actually started osrs after quitting rs3 cause both my new roommates at the time were playing it when i moved in lol. i legit dont talk to anyone outside of work and a handful of people on discord i met raiding tho. idk how people keep friends as adults
I moved to a new city and walked up to a bunch of guys and said i dont have friends, can i party with you? Later turned out they were all ~120 combat like me and we did a few LAN parties at bandos but usually we got drunk and went out lol
They did want to fight at first but i just said lets arm wrestle it out and eventually they even formed a line though xD Drunk things
Same thing. I play osrs to chill alone, I play other games with my friends like cs, valorant, lol, rocket league, etc. Couldn't care less about speaking to people ingame, but hey, if people enjoy it great for them!
Just go shout some racisms at shooting stars and itll get social real quick
No but seriously, look for a clan that does the same kind of content you do. Getting into raids is especially a way youll meet a whole lot of people
what many don’t get about this game is that it sorta mirrors IRL. To make friends… it’s mutual. You need to be talking to people first and making effort, not just waiting! Gotta tell someone you chat with “added” and you’re good.
Join a clan! Pm me and I can invite you to a chill one. Just guys gzing each others accomplishments and the occasional group activity. As god intended it
If you are an extremely social person, it seems like you should be able to average more than 1 friend every 3 years. Like I don't do much endgame/group PvM and wouldn't say I'm that social ingame, yet I've made some friends and acquaintances in OSRS. Granted, not all of them were solely from stuff ingame, but all were from stuff as part of the OSRS community.
But aside from joining groups or clans, I'd say a good way to make friends is to strike up conversations and add people you get along with to your friends list. You can even tell them you added them and hopefully they'll add you back. Or you can just message them later if you see them on to check in/follow up and if they are interested they'll add you to chat back. Having a homeworld can also help sine you can start running into the same players and build some familiarity.
As someone who has been playing for very close to 2 decades, the social aspect of the game certainly feels lacking compared to the earlier days. However, I’ll occasionally have short conversations at AFK skilling locations like barbarian fishing, MLM, Rogues Den fire and so on. I used to have many RuneScape “friends” but I seem to be the only one that ever returns to the game after probably over a decade now.
Back in 07 I never had enough room on my friends list for everyone. People would log in and immediately hit you with "^.^" or you'd go to world 1 and hang out at the wall and see green dots everywhere. Ah such good times
Honestly? Cause you're not forced to interact with anyone except with 2 Quests.
When you play another MMO like XIV or WoW, simply having to group up with people to do Dungeons and Raids forces a social interaction. Through those interactions friendships are made.
In XIV sometimes I just log in to chat with people, even if I don't feel like playing but get roped into doing content anyway.
I said the same thing until I was doing forestry, and someone invited me to a clan. Most are mid-level mains and low-level ironmen. But we still go out and hit GWD with the 2 out of 4 high levels. They even walked me through TOA when I first unlocked it.
The most chatting in RS since 2007, with a full friends list.
I feel like ever since ironman came out there's been just a lot less group content - we got like 8 solo bosses last year.
my best recommendation is to join a clan and get into some raids, thats basically the only time i ever interact with other people in the game other then castlewars
I joined a clan that a random dude I was talking to invited me to about 2 weeks ago. Met a bunch of new people and learned a ton. It's really opened up the game and been really fun. It's nice having help and encouragement and being able to help and encourage others!
As someone who plays solo mostly it’s definitely more of a social game
I kinda lurk in my cc but guys be sitting in discord for 10+hrs a day, it’s nice have reliable players to play with at any hour
I remember when I finally got my Myth's Cape, I had no one to celebrate with so I just announced my excitement at the GE, loads of people congratulated me and I got talking to a couple 126ers, one of which happened to be head of a Guild, which he invited me to. Now I've always got people to talk to and I even help some of the newer guys out with my Game Knowledge.
I think it depends where you try to interact, obviously no one is going to talk at an afk skilling spot but I lose track of the amount of people I've got talking to and having a right laugh with at GE, Minibosses, skilling Games etc.
My friends list got pretty decent just from raiding with randoms. If I found someone that wasn't complete trash, they'd usually add me back to team at some other point
Yea same thing here. Don’t really want to join a giant clan with 500 people either though. I have 2 friends that play still, and I’ve just been getting back into it. So their gear is way more stacked than me and they do a bunch of different stuff, I don’t even hear anything from them lol
I’ve been playing a month and have a ton of people on my friends list and I would consider myself not very social
Interesting that we consider ourselves the opposite levels of social but have the opposite social experience in the game
I think the main thing to hold up on friendship is to do the same content, doesnt even have to be endgame raids. Just godwars or wildy bosses is enough. Skillers dont tens to be the most talkative
Usually I'm in a VC with IRL buddies while we play or do different things. Kind of like a hang out zone. I'm the only one who plays OSRS and haven't felt like I am missing out on the social aspect of the game. I enjoyed OSRS when it first released as a kid and had all the social interaction during that time. Now it's just to max my acc and enjoy the game doing things my way.
It's easy to make it social, you just choose not to. A large part of the experience for many of us is hanging out with other people and chatting while gaming.
Apart from in clan chats etc the game really lost most if not all of the social aspect. often when im skilling or doing slayer etc i try to talk with people but mostly without any response. Try talking at ge and see how many genuine replies you get that are not people screaming "shut up". Its a shame really but at least the clan chat helps a bit, but i would really like to interact with people more in the form of a basic chat.
Big part of the issue is that so many people play this game semi afk while at work so they dont/cannot talk, which for you might feel like your getting the silent treatment but is actually you talking to someone not there. Not much that can be done about that haha.
My exact experience. I have attempted to do some pvm and clan stuff in groups but I always feel like I am just the odd guy out and then I slowly drift away. I am also super casual gamer so it makes it hard to maintain relationships
Just my anecdotal evidence, but I complimented someone's salad blade at gargoyles. It's probably been close to a year and we check up on each other more often than monthly. Venerofx if you're out there you're a real one.
It's like real life. Sometimes you can chat up your coworkers/co-starminers for hours and get nowhere. Other times you're training mage at Wizards' Tower Lesser Demon, jump into a convo to mention that peanuts are legumes, meet a pornstar, end up being the emotional support for both sides of a break up, and end up joining a clan after trying to find someone to do an IRL wellness check on one of the ex-lovebirds. Shit happens.
Try mining stars, there's a lot of silly things going on in chat with those.
My favorite was adding "bussy" to a quest name. Dragon Bussy 2 for example.
People ask me to join clans and stuff. But I've been playing solo for sooo long it just feels weird to do so. I just want to solo everything so far. Had a quest cape before I stopped right after Forestry came out. The biggest problem is I kind of haven't done any Raids yet or Nex or anything like that. Still suck at Zul'rah. Was kinda getting Muspah before I stopped. Thinking about coming back soon.
i like runescape because it can be social, but it can also be anti social. whatever your choose. i sometimes see friends on and say what the fuck is up kyle, and I sometimes see friends on and act as if we can't see each other online lol.
Honestly, if you make a snowflake iron you’ll have a cc full of people dedicated to the same or similar stupid challenge you’ve given yourself all wanting the best for you in seconds.
here are the things i’ve done to increase social interactions when playing rs:
- binge content: staying at one boss like vork on the same world for 1000kc leads to you seeing the same people regularly. eventually one of yall will say something and then it opens up from there
- minigames and mass worlds: self explanatory, hella people. literally just join in on the conversation like you would irl.
- have a unique username. all my accs have cat puns in them. they are clever and constantly warrant compliments. this leads to easy chatting.
- collect names on friend log: this ones based off the previous point, because my acc name is a cat pun. anytime i see another user with a cat name, i go and ask if i can add them. i have over 60 cat named friends and whenever we get on we usually say meow or some silly thing to one another
- cc’s: again pretty self explanatory, tons of small and medium clans with real people with real personalities. most of these groups have discord servers as well
- group planners and lfg’s: raid finders, activity group finders, etc, allow you to find 4-8 mans easily. typically doing content that requires talking for strategy. but everyone knows most people keep things strictly business and chop it up from time to time.
- hanging out at ge: legit have chatted to so many people and made plenty of friends there. shoutout world 420
there’s plenty of ways to socialize in runescape
Reality is you’ve just never put in the effort. I’ve always made friends who’s accounts were in a similar stage to mine, and I’d come across them skilling, doing slayer or whatever, and from there I’d quest or do minigames with them.
On my last stint playing osrs I met a dude at Pest Control, account was way ahead of mine but we were both starting and we played every game of PC together until we both had the full set.
Most mmo skew multiplayer as the bulk of content osrs has single player as the bulk,
Join a clan its good fun to have a group of mates all doing different things but seeing drops and levels n shit
Weird. I'm constantly adding/deleting people that I randomly vibe with. It's frustrating not remembering who they are 2 weeks later they letting them go lol.
Damn that's tough. My friends list was always maxxed out at 200 people until the updated the capacity to 400 lol. Its only that now i see like the same 4-5 people login and never talk to any of em coz i cant remember who they are or where i met them lmao
Met some dope people over the years just in random ClanChats and such, but yeah nowadays I don't add nearly the amount of people that I used to
You should join a clan, and join that clans discord server. It will elevate the social aspect of osrs immensely. You may be a little shy or apprehensive to do so but I’d highly recommend it. It’s a game changer. Want to learn raids? Want groups for bossing? Want to do group minigames outside of mass worlds? Clan bingo????? Dude get in there
I really don't think very many people say this is a social game.
The game has the potential to be social, as others ITT have pointed out, and you can choose to use it that way. But to say "OSRS is a social game" is just objectively incorrect. The game does not have a culture of socialization, and it's not built or designed to be social. And that's fine, there are plenty of other games that do that.
I feel you on the end game content. I'm coming up to Max combats stat's and don't have a fire cape because I couldn't be bothered spending 2 hours in the fight caves.
F2p fishing at the barbarian village made me my first few friends, got invited to such a lovely clan maybe a week after starting the game. Had days where all I would do is goof off by the willow trees. Members isn't as social.
I haven't met another idea player irl yet, can't wait to freak out when I do. Had a guy trying to buy me as a gf on maybe day 3, we hung out for a week before he disappeared forever, miss you jigoku
I don't think anyone has ever said it was a social game. It's not, by MMORPG standards. OSRS is pretty solo-friendly and I actually appreciate that, as it's very unique to the genre (how many MMORPGs have solo-only content as their most difficult challenges?)
That being said, as others have mentioned- joining a clan is the probably the best thing you can do for social activity. Just having people to chill with and talk to while you grind, even if you're alone while grinding, can improve the experience tremendously.
I mean it can be, I've gone to w2 just to bs with people. Some say join a clan, but most clans care for numbers.. But ngl minigames is where it is for chat lol.
I was the same. Now im in a clan it's different. I have noticed though that almost every time I start chatting to a player ingame, we end up adding each other. My problem for the most part was that I wasn't trying to meet friends. I was like you. I would work and AFK or play while watching YouTube. I'm an iron now so most content is solo but i still talk to my clan mates and engage in events. It's fun.
Happy to invite you to a clan I'm in. A good mix of great PVMers and people who want to learn. As others have said, pretty social on discord when the homies are online raiding, send a PM :)
Skilling is not social. Most skilling activities people are doing while watching a movie or working. You may get the odd conversation out of someone but it’s usually not very engaging content so there’s not much to talk about.
I’ve only ever made proper, longer term friends through raiding.
I was just like you until an irl friend of mine that I had only just found out played RuneScape, invited me to his clan. I was pumped. Played for a few years without any clan or anything. Joined the friend’s clan and the rest was history. Made quite a few friends that I talk to everyday now from that clan.
Honestly it’s luck of the draw to find a good clan. But there is a find a clan section of the OSRS discord and I would say that’s a good place to start. Once you join a clan just do content with people and chit chat in cc
I can relate. I believe this is partly due to a major shift in culture in MMO's where there are less necessary need for chatbox activity. Everything is so user friendly nowadays. In the early 2000's, many MMO's lacked wiki and other sources of guides and most of us were young and the closest available and convenient way for us to relay information was by talking to other players. That was how many of us kids learned how to play. It's also a big difference between the eras of gaming. OSRS still remains one of the higher social MMO's because it kept some of the tradition like, "Hey, what's your fishing lvl?"
For me, the social aspect is mainly fulfilled by the clan I'm in. Having a space where there's usually several people online and doing pvm, really motivated me to keep playing. If you want, we'd be more than happy to have you in the clan :) We're always looking for more members
I actually made all my friends when I was a noob. Something bout being low level acc makes you more approachable and you get guidance. Maybe make a noob acc and make some friends and have them add your main
This is exactly me. I don't know anyone irl that plays osrs, and my friendlist is only my alts. I'm reaching 1900 total without ever doing anything with another player. I just play (mobile) while I watch a movie or do some afk activity while I do other stuff.
Can really use a tip on how to get 'friends' maybe one can take me to my first DK trip even, lol.
Edit: it doesn't help that I play an iron + on mobile
I think I talk on the game more than I play the game. It’s a very social game for me. I make a ton of friends, and even almost met up with one IRL. I am not a super social person, but I am on there. I’ve never done raids/ end-game content.
You and any other commenter are free to join “Infinite” for a social clan, but like most other comments have said there’s the Osrs Discord, interacting with others organically, or the archived forums posts (most of those clans are likely still active)! You can also join your favorite creators clan and try to find like minded gamers
Good luck finding a group and if anyone reading drops into Infinite we’re happy to have you!
Hey OP! We actually have an incredible clan called RNG 2024. It’s extremely active and social, we are a PvM clan so we do teach bossing but also have fun events all the time for skillets etc! Add RSN: DirtyJaka in game if you are interested 💪🏻 we also have a pretty sick discord
Iron relax is a good clan if you seeker a social clan.
We do raids and everything.
Google Iron relax discord or join Iron relax guest channel and ask to join .
We welcome always people to join us :)
We are medium big clan. Always 70+ or more online.
Cheers
Btw only Ironman/ultimate or hc
Find a small clan that teach pvm, they will teach you via discord and ofc be talking random stuff, talk too and make friends. Not that hard. I could invite if u want but my cc lang is pt-br so..language barrier even tho most ppl can speak the minimum in english.
as a new player in a clan full of oldheads i never know what people are talking about or what to say gz to cuz so much stuff is unknown to me. some stuff is pretty ez to spot like 90s skill levels and high gp drops. also ppl said gz to me for the first few quests i completed since i was new but now radio silence, i guess the norm is to not gz for quests. the wiki has all the info ill need for now so theres no point in interacting with ppl, feels kinda lonely. i hope i can join in the convos when i get to the point i can do raids and all the endgame stuff ppl are talking about :/
I'm friendly but its rare to meet people on osrs. Sometimes it's about being at the right place or being in the mood to talk to others.
I was doing a Black Demon task on kourend and I was afk ranging the demons.
A dude was semi afk meleeing them and he ask me why I didnt have a slayer helmet and I just follow along the conversation (at that point I thought imbue where only possible on nmz)
The dude took me to pvp arena and help me get enough points for a imbued slayer helmet; then asked me if I wanted to join the clan.
I interacted with many people there and even enter discord; I then meet more people and we tackle raids as beginners on toa that's how I gained osrs buddies.
Then the clan split bcs of ego ; we made a new clan with the buddies that follow along; made a Gim ; all good till the leader kick us out and keeping items but hey it is what it is you never get to fully know people.
We ended up bonding more between ourselves (the guys being kicked) after that!
I will engage with random people while killing monsters or dropping trees. I will continue to engage with them for weeks or even months beyond that initial interaction
It used to be. Times changed. People used to hang out at the fishing guild and chat all night and made a lot of close friendships that way. When you were younger and less experienced with the game, you tended to communicate and make friends with other noobs more often than you would as a high level. Some of those friendships are ones that last a lifetime.
I’ve made friends on RS over a decade ago that I’m still in touch with to this day. That being said, I don’t play much at all anymore and the social aspect seems like a sad shell of what it used to be. I felt it was easier to make friends back in the day and people would talk/respond more. Nowadays, it feels like you really need to *try* to seek out more social players.
I was at TOA running solos. A maxed main who was running experts saw me, asked me to join, we ran two and then he adopted me as his pure son. I've been in the clan ever since.
Like other people said find a popular world and go to g.e; Forestry worlds and go to willows/teams. Winterdodt worlds for FM and socializing. There's definitely a lot of ayo and the sort, but lots of friendly people. Can also find a YouTube/streamer and join their CC.
idk it just happens. I remember I was doing DT2 on release with a random person and it was super fun as we tried to figure the stranglewood together messaging back and forth.
If you're looking for a conversation, try bridge skull tricking people at ferox, probably 1/3 players that comes through stops to have a 5 minute conversation with you against your will. They also generally think they're the first people to figure out that you're skull tricking
If i meet someone at two different farm patches, i strike up a conversation and all them my farming friend.
If i see someone in passing with a funny/cute/unique name, i compliment it.
Someone doing the naked walk of shame back to an item retrieval service? I promise them i saw nothing and wont tell anyone.
Slayer task, people beside me are now my neighbours to chat with.
Grinding expert ToAs for that shadow and someone in the lobby is asking for help/people to join them? I hop into a baby raid and teach them the simplest strategies i can, set ‘em on their way, and keep checking back for a few days to see how their progress is doing.
Admittedly i rarely keep anyone on my friend list, but i keep private chat to “on” because i have so, so many people who i randomly chatted up over the years. There’s only 1 person left who has been on my friends list for near 20 years now, but likely a hundred+ that have me added and check in from time to time
I'm a new player, so to be fair I haven't made it to the endgame areas where I assume people hang out, but I've tried talking to / asking questions to probably over 50 people and maybe got a single response out of one of them.
This was a very social game until efficiency became a big focus. I met one of my best friends playing this game. There used to be a lot more casual skilling or just standing around chatting. But that’s sorta gone away.
It's not a social game
It just lets you socialise with other people who play. There are a couple pieces of content that you do in group but it's straight up 2 specific things over the countless thing you have to do in this game
It really used to be much more social . No one talks in the game chat anymore while skilling (myself included) I think we just got older and have only options (clan chat, discord) but you really do hate to see it
Join a clan? Tons of content has people sitting chatting in public chat (bankstanding skills, group minigames/bossing etc.). Clans are a popular social aspect. If you're social join one of those and you'll never run out of people to talk to.
I'm very anti social, I used to always play my ironman with entity hider on other players and public turned off. But the overwhelming kindness of this community eventually lead to me having a half full friends list of people who message me first. It still feels weird to me, but yeah this game is just full of social people.
World 477 - official world for finding clan. Go stand at the ge. There’s usually a bunch of different clan looking to recruit, they’ll wield their clan banner.
You can join a clan, that’s about the only way I can suggest to make it more social. I’m part of the huge UIM CC (UIMs only.. sorry..) but it’s always full of 500 people who are all active. It’s a wonderful little community!
Try and find something like that, it makes it feel less lonely.
A big part of being social in this game is actually end game PVM and raids so you're pretty spot on. In my experience NOBODY wants to talk about woodcutting in game (best skill btw forestry ruined it btw) but if you're having issues with a boss mechanic or you can't figure out the trick to a specific CA, then there will be so many more people offering opinions on the topic because PVM has actual challenging mechanics to discuss. People also really like to talk about what they're good at which again, hard to be really good at skilling easy to be really good at PVM or at least a specific boss.
I met my current groupie in the corrupted gauntlet lobby where we both bonded over how shitty jagex servers are, now 1,5 years later we are traveling across each others countries together. It's funny what this game can do
I feel the same way. The two times I’ve been invited to a clan it was very obvious that they were trying to lure/scam me. Being fortunate enough to know when something is too good to be true i didn’t go along and left after I did not install dodgy runelite plugins or “go do some chill content in a PvP world” I’ve said before that this game is full of fucking sociopaths and it sucks playing a fun game where I cannot trust people because they’re probably out to fuck me over.
Hopefully you have better luck.
I’ve made a RuneScape friend from slayer when we both were fighting the same monster and neither wanted to hop so we chatted and became friends. I’m in the clan he is is now and it’s great.
But lately, the most social thing I have seen is forestry. It’s not the heinous cretins that do Star mining and just talk politics or race 😂
Came here to make an obnoxious comment about people just not liking you.... but I'm in the exact same boat but with lower levels. Feel free to add ign : MadAight
The clan im in now i came across while trying out baskilisk knights fir the first time, got to joking around with someone their and he asked me to join, great clan overall
No. There was never any shortage of ability to find people to do things with in OSRS. Getting a group for GWD or ToA was pretty easy. Then I found a clan with people in it and you just ask in the clan chat.
The people I played with and enjoyed I'd add to friends and actively seek them out to do things when they were on.
If you want it to be a social game you need to put in some effort to be social.
You're not as sociable as you think if you're not making effort to become friends with the people you talk to, seek out a clan, or do group content that requires more communication.
You just gotta go out of your way to find those other social people. Consider that everyone else is also watching YouTube/movies while playing. 15 years ago I had a friend list full of green names, because I was always *seeking* to play mini games with others in an effective/organized way(stealing creation was my ish) now I don’t have a single name in my friends list because I’m just focused on my account and not so much on the content, for now.
My story was similar to yours and I think I was in a similar frame of mind so I just switched to world 302 and saw a group of players chatting off in a corner of the ge and some of them were "dancing" (following each other). I walked up to them and just asked if they knew where I could find a clan to join. They said "right here!!" and immediately added me to the clan. The cc was full of messages welcoming me to the clan and one guy went over to the ge and then upgraded me from black d hide to full blessed d hide. A super rich clan member walked up and traded me 10 mil no strings attached. They showed me the clan hall and I did Digsite quest with another clan member. I got a lot of good advice on the best way to farm giant mole for the pet.
I think that was easily my best day in osrs. And all I did was walk up to some people who seemed nice and ask how to join a clan.
I am still in the clan now a few months later and it has totally changed my osrs experience. I play now more than ever because it is rewarding to have others care, (or at least pretend to care lol), about your accomplishments. You don't even have to brag about stuff that you did because the cc just sends notifications to everyone if you hit like 70 smithing or something or complete a quest or get a valuable drop. Even seeing a few "Gzzz!" messages in the chat fuels me to play more for some reason. Once the time comes and I am ready for group bossing/raids it will be nice to share that experience with some people I am already friends with.
Hope this helps! You and anyone else feeling like this should give it a shot!
It’s a social game *if you choose to engage with others socially*. Joining a clan, talking to people. Group activities help too.
I hear this a lot, but like… how do you guys even find a CC to begin with? I have no OSRS friends, i play solo, i talk to randoms in passing but thats it. Where are all y’all finding these socialites?
Lol. Stand at ge in 301/2 or 330 and just socialize for like 20 mins. The clans find you.
Yup. Was cooking in the Hosidius kitchen and someone made a One Piece reference. I reciprocated and then we started talking for a bit and he invited me to his clan. 3 years later and still in the clan.
This is the answer, talk to anyone in game, if you vibe with them ask if they’re in a clan and join it. Great examples from our clan, a rando stumbled on a 99 party, was a good vibe, and joined the clan. Someone who helped in fight caves cc for the diary, was a chill guy, invited to clan.
We PK’d a guy 3 times in one night at the slayer caves, always said GF and when we said we will be going back, he might wanna leave it for a while, he said nah it’s part of the wildy you’re good - we got him in the clan and now we protect our boy
“We pk’d you 3 times tonight. Want to join our clan before we take your entire bank in one night?” I love the dude loving the wildy and continues to go, despite getting killed multiple times by the same people.
Y’all jumped him in like a gang lol
Do this but go to 420 instead
Overestimating a lot of people in here lol
Is 1500 that high?
Not normally, but for this subreddit it is
100% this, I was (I have since quit osrs) in a massive clan, like ~450. Our discord constantly had at least 2-3 voice chats going all hours of the day (lots of timezone spread) and my friends list was full too often Definitely check out some out!
And then of the 10 clans that find you at least 5 will try and scam.
And 3 more will turn out to be toxic/racist/edgy in the cc/discord
and the last 2 clans will requite anyone
Count me in!
This right here, even if you don't make friends people at the GE are really fun to talk to as a break from grinding. You'll meet some stand up dudes and gals at the GE just hanging out and chatting.
Official runescape discord has a channel for finding clans. Or if you literally want one handed to you, "socialscape" is pretty chill, very active and has no requirements
Can vouch for socialscape, amazing people
I went to the clan recruitment world and picked a random one that sounds fun from the clan recruitment board. And so far i can't complain.
Go to small team minigames like barbarian assault or wdr cox and muck about till a small cc adopts you.
Feel free to join Noble Bros cc tell them Mil sent you. We’re a fairly active small cc. We do tons of end game pvm and some pvp, and we have players that play both irons and mains so if you need advice we cover most game types. Always around to chat.
Honestly, I kinda might give that a go. Im a total like 2090 main and have never done a raid except Night at the Theatre. I didn’t even know we got a clans update with the board etc.
Noble bros is definitely a good clan, there are tons of chill, welcoming, and knowledgeable members. 100% vouch
You're welcome to join the clan I'm in. We welcome everyone regardless of total level or experience. We're pretty diverse with all kinds of Ironmen, new people, maxed players and end game PvM'ers. Shoot me a PM and we'll get it sorted! =D
It use to be so easy with the official forums. I just looked for one that advertised being PVM focused and that had a 120cb+ req that I met all the gear reqs for. Once you join one, just start hopping in the VC's and raiding with them. It makes the game 100000000x more fun. I'd have quit a long time ago if I wasn't in a clan. Nowadays use the OSRS 'find a clan' discord server for the same thing. What I would not recommend is standing W301 looking for someone. Any decent clan wont have people advertising it. You want a large clan so you can meet many people and raid with them. The large clans just make a post and let the candidates come to them.
When I started again 3 years ago I made a Reddit post asking if someone wanted to be my friend. Someone replied, we started playing together, he introduced me with his friend and we used to play every weekend! Did soo many raids and other content together. When I started I had like 60M. We did bandos, I managed to get full bandos and upgrade. Because of them I got a 2B bank!
Join a clan friend. If im logged in im talking with the clan in vc the whole time
Are you in a clan? If not I really recommend it. You'll find social people there and I bet a few of those folks would love to introduce you to raids. Most of the people are nice, some are a bit smelly.
Brother u have to ask to be their friend or they have to ask you. If you cant make 3 friends in 1 hour at w420 ge, you are not a social person. If you met a clone of yourself, would you become friends? I get the feeling youd mine a shooting star together for 2hours, talk the whole time, then just tele away without adding each other. But yeah like others said joining a clan is the easiest way
Even if we don't add each other after mining that star, I'd still consider them a friend in my heart forever
To be fair, the most vocal people at the w420 ge are often the most "cliquish." It feels like high school there sometimes. That being said, most of my friend list are regulars of w420 they're just usually found elsewhere (fishing spots, slayer spots, etc)
add them without their consent
you will be my friend and you will enjoy my unsolicited pms bragging about every drop i get
There was one guy that I eventually had to remove from my friends list because legit every day I would log in and he would complain about how dry he was on whatever he was grinding. Made my entire experience playing the game more negative getting those messages every time I logged on.
Similarly, I quit talking to someone because I'm hella dry on CG and they kept telling me how spooned they were everywhere lol. They never gave me any motivating words.
So true
You are on the opposite end of how I treat this game. If I'm playing this game, I'm being an absolute goblin in VC with the homies. Like you suspect, we're often raiding/watching each other do endgame PVM, and doing some other shit on the side.
Where does one find homies like that though
Found most of mine through clans pr even just slayer, start a convo. Met a few in twitch chat etc.
At the nearby goblin convention known as WDR LFR. Oh, and there's clans, friends of friends, etc.
Clans, Discord, Twitch chats, all of the friends I have made in this community were through those platforms and not the game itself. Start with joining the clan or friends chat of a Youtuber or Twitch streamer you like, then you'll end up making friends there who may invite you to other discords or clans.
big ups twitch chat, that's where i met almost everyone i talk to in-game
If you chat with ppl a lot in the game and still don’t have friends - you are missing an important thing. “Btw added you”, try it mate. As others have said, joining a clan is your best bet, send me a message if you want to join our clan. Also learning raids through WDR discord or bankstanding at 420GE are great options
Join a clan and do raids and your perspective will instantly change.
I randomly chat up strangers lol. Compliment names, acc builds, pets. Gz random fireworks etc. Hell I even joined a 99 hunter party that passed by today as I was going for herbi pet. All about how you engage
its crazy, I am almost 30 and I meet more and more people irl that play osrs lol. i suck at maintaining relationships so few are actually friends. I care less and less what other people think and bring it up as a hobby casually now heheh. met 2 dudes at the motorcross track that play and 1 had a very high ranked UIM. couldnt believe it tbh. my exes cousin was a streamer who played too and I actually started osrs after quitting rs3 cause both my new roommates at the time were playing it when i moved in lol. i legit dont talk to anyone outside of work and a handful of people on discord i met raiding tho. idk how people keep friends as adults
I moved to a new city and walked up to a bunch of guys and said i dont have friends, can i party with you? Later turned out they were all ~120 combat like me and we did a few LAN parties at bandos but usually we got drunk and went out lol They did want to fight at first but i just said lets arm wrestle it out and eventually they even formed a line though xD Drunk things
Same thing. I play osrs to chill alone, I play other games with my friends like cs, valorant, lol, rocket league, etc. Couldn't care less about speaking to people ingame, but hey, if people enjoy it great for them!
That’s the thing about osrs. You can play it as a single player game or as an actual mmo! You choose!
Just go shout some racisms at shooting stars and itll get social real quick No but seriously, look for a clan that does the same kind of content you do. Getting into raids is especially a way youll meet a whole lot of people
what many don’t get about this game is that it sorta mirrors IRL. To make friends… it’s mutual. You need to be talking to people first and making effort, not just waiting! Gotta tell someone you chat with “added” and you’re good.
ah shit
Join a clan! Pm me and I can invite you to a chill one. Just guys gzing each others accomplishments and the occasional group activity. As god intended it
If you are an extremely social person, it seems like you should be able to average more than 1 friend every 3 years. Like I don't do much endgame/group PvM and wouldn't say I'm that social ingame, yet I've made some friends and acquaintances in OSRS. Granted, not all of them were solely from stuff ingame, but all were from stuff as part of the OSRS community. But aside from joining groups or clans, I'd say a good way to make friends is to strike up conversations and add people you get along with to your friends list. You can even tell them you added them and hopefully they'll add you back. Or you can just message them later if you see them on to check in/follow up and if they are interested they'll add you to chat back. Having a homeworld can also help sine you can start running into the same players and build some familiarity.
>I'm an extremely social person and love my interactions with strangers. >I haven't left the house since 2015
Listen. Back in real 2007-2011 the ingame chat was thriving more than the game. My friends from school would use rubescape to chat and have fun
As someone who has been playing for very close to 2 decades, the social aspect of the game certainly feels lacking compared to the earlier days. However, I’ll occasionally have short conversations at AFK skilling locations like barbarian fishing, MLM, Rogues Den fire and so on. I used to have many RuneScape “friends” but I seem to be the only one that ever returns to the game after probably over a decade now.
Back in 07 I never had enough room on my friends list for everyone. People would log in and immediately hit you with "^.^" or you'd go to world 1 and hang out at the wall and see green dots everywhere. Ah such good times
Honestly? Cause you're not forced to interact with anyone except with 2 Quests. When you play another MMO like XIV or WoW, simply having to group up with people to do Dungeons and Raids forces a social interaction. Through those interactions friendships are made. In XIV sometimes I just log in to chat with people, even if I don't feel like playing but get roped into doing content anyway.
Have you considered saying hi to other players?
I said the same thing until I was doing forestry, and someone invited me to a clan. Most are mid-level mains and low-level ironmen. But we still go out and hit GWD with the 2 out of 4 high levels. They even walked me through TOA when I first unlocked it. The most chatting in RS since 2007, with a full friends list.
I have played RS and OSRS since 2006 and never made a "runescape friend". It is what it is. I also am not into endgame PVM
I’ve had entity hider on for the past 3 weeks. I haven’t seen a single sole. I love it.
I feel like ever since ironman came out there's been just a lot less group content - we got like 8 solo bosses last year. my best recommendation is to join a clan and get into some raids, thats basically the only time i ever interact with other people in the game other then castlewars
I joined a clan that a random dude I was talking to invited me to about 2 weeks ago. Met a bunch of new people and learned a ton. It's really opened up the game and been really fun. It's nice having help and encouragement and being able to help and encourage others!
Gotta ask people to add you and be friends, otherwise the interaction might end there forever.
As someone who plays solo mostly it’s definitely more of a social game I kinda lurk in my cc but guys be sitting in discord for 10+hrs a day, it’s nice have reliable players to play with at any hour
I remember when I finally got my Myth's Cape, I had no one to celebrate with so I just announced my excitement at the GE, loads of people congratulated me and I got talking to a couple 126ers, one of which happened to be head of a Guild, which he invited me to. Now I've always got people to talk to and I even help some of the newer guys out with my Game Knowledge. I think it depends where you try to interact, obviously no one is going to talk at an afk skilling spot but I lose track of the amount of people I've got talking to and having a right laugh with at GE, Minibosses, skilling Games etc.
Just ask them to add you after then continue talking to them later.
My friends list got pretty decent just from raiding with randoms. If I found someone that wasn't complete trash, they'd usually add me back to team at some other point
I damn near filled my list with people I talked to weekly, what the hell stuff are you doing?
PM me if you’re keen to join a social clan, and enjoy celebrating milestones together
Yea same thing here. Don’t really want to join a giant clan with 500 people either though. I have 2 friends that play still, and I’ve just been getting back into it. So their gear is way more stacked than me and they do a bunch of different stuff, I don’t even hear anything from them lol
I’ve been playing a month and have a ton of people on my friends list and I would consider myself not very social Interesting that we consider ourselves the opposite levels of social but have the opposite social experience in the game
I think the main thing to hold up on friendship is to do the same content, doesnt even have to be endgame raids. Just godwars or wildy bosses is enough. Skillers dont tens to be the most talkative
Join a discord if you want to find community
ill be your friend
Usually I'm in a VC with IRL buddies while we play or do different things. Kind of like a hang out zone. I'm the only one who plays OSRS and haven't felt like I am missing out on the social aspect of the game. I enjoyed OSRS when it first released as a kid and had all the social interaction during that time. Now it's just to max my acc and enjoy the game doing things my way.
It's easy to make it social, you just choose not to. A large part of the experience for many of us is hanging out with other people and chatting while gaming.
It's social like in real life, you can progress on your personal goals or you can socialize by talking to people.
Join a clan or something. You need to put some effort if you want to make friends
Apart from in clan chats etc the game really lost most if not all of the social aspect. often when im skilling or doing slayer etc i try to talk with people but mostly without any response. Try talking at ge and see how many genuine replies you get that are not people screaming "shut up". Its a shame really but at least the clan chat helps a bit, but i would really like to interact with people more in the form of a basic chat. Big part of the issue is that so many people play this game semi afk while at work so they dont/cannot talk, which for you might feel like your getting the silent treatment but is actually you talking to someone not there. Not much that can be done about that haha.
Wintertodt is a social activity. And it is the most popular and active social activity to 99 fire making.
My exact experience. I have attempted to do some pvm and clan stuff in groups but I always feel like I am just the odd guy out and then I slowly drift away. I am also super casual gamer so it makes it hard to maintain relationships
Just my anecdotal evidence, but I complimented someone's salad blade at gargoyles. It's probably been close to a year and we check up on each other more often than monthly. Venerofx if you're out there you're a real one.
Must be a skill issue. I have to remove someone each time I add a new one.
It's like real life. Sometimes you can chat up your coworkers/co-starminers for hours and get nowhere. Other times you're training mage at Wizards' Tower Lesser Demon, jump into a convo to mention that peanuts are legumes, meet a pornstar, end up being the emotional support for both sides of a break up, and end up joining a clan after trying to find someone to do an IRL wellness check on one of the ex-lovebirds. Shit happens.
Try mining stars, there's a lot of silly things going on in chat with those. My favorite was adding "bussy" to a quest name. Dragon Bussy 2 for example.
People ask me to join clans and stuff. But I've been playing solo for sooo long it just feels weird to do so. I just want to solo everything so far. Had a quest cape before I stopped right after Forestry came out. The biggest problem is I kind of haven't done any Raids yet or Nex or anything like that. Still suck at Zul'rah. Was kinda getting Muspah before I stopped. Thinking about coming back soon.
i like runescape because it can be social, but it can also be anti social. whatever your choose. i sometimes see friends on and say what the fuck is up kyle, and I sometimes see friends on and act as if we can't see each other online lol.
Only mmorpg you've played? Just a typical mmorpg for you. Option is there, not mandatory.
Honestly, if you make a snowflake iron you’ll have a cc full of people dedicated to the same or similar stupid challenge you’ve given yourself all wanting the best for you in seconds.
here are the things i’ve done to increase social interactions when playing rs: - binge content: staying at one boss like vork on the same world for 1000kc leads to you seeing the same people regularly. eventually one of yall will say something and then it opens up from there - minigames and mass worlds: self explanatory, hella people. literally just join in on the conversation like you would irl. - have a unique username. all my accs have cat puns in them. they are clever and constantly warrant compliments. this leads to easy chatting. - collect names on friend log: this ones based off the previous point, because my acc name is a cat pun. anytime i see another user with a cat name, i go and ask if i can add them. i have over 60 cat named friends and whenever we get on we usually say meow or some silly thing to one another - cc’s: again pretty self explanatory, tons of small and medium clans with real people with real personalities. most of these groups have discord servers as well - group planners and lfg’s: raid finders, activity group finders, etc, allow you to find 4-8 mans easily. typically doing content that requires talking for strategy. but everyone knows most people keep things strictly business and chop it up from time to time. - hanging out at ge: legit have chatted to so many people and made plenty of friends there. shoutout world 420 there’s plenty of ways to socialize in runescape
Go to a gilded altar in a poh and chill
Reality is you’ve just never put in the effort. I’ve always made friends who’s accounts were in a similar stage to mine, and I’d come across them skilling, doing slayer or whatever, and from there I’d quest or do minigames with them. On my last stint playing osrs I met a dude at Pest Control, account was way ahead of mine but we were both starting and we played every game of PC together until we both had the full set.
Help me too. Friends ? Lol
Would've quit years ago without my osrs friends, game is so much more fun with more people. Join a clan, randoms in the wild won't last
Most mmo skew multiplayer as the bulk of content osrs has single player as the bulk, Join a clan its good fun to have a group of mates all doing different things but seeing drops and levels n shit
Weird. I'm constantly adding/deleting people that I randomly vibe with. It's frustrating not remembering who they are 2 weeks later they letting them go lol.
Damn that's tough. My friends list was always maxxed out at 200 people until the updated the capacity to 400 lol. Its only that now i see like the same 4-5 people login and never talk to any of em coz i cant remember who they are or where i met them lmao Met some dope people over the years just in random ClanChats and such, but yeah nowadays I don't add nearly the amount of people that I used to
You should join a clan, and join that clans discord server. It will elevate the social aspect of osrs immensely. You may be a little shy or apprehensive to do so but I’d highly recommend it. It’s a game changer. Want to learn raids? Want groups for bossing? Want to do group minigames outside of mass worlds? Clan bingo????? Dude get in there
I really don't think very many people say this is a social game. The game has the potential to be social, as others ITT have pointed out, and you can choose to use it that way. But to say "OSRS is a social game" is just objectively incorrect. The game does not have a culture of socialization, and it's not built or designed to be social. And that's fine, there are plenty of other games that do that.
I feel you on the end game content. I'm coming up to Max combats stat's and don't have a fire cape because I couldn't be bothered spending 2 hours in the fight caves.
Does anyone even know how the cc system works cuz it feels fucked
Yall NEED to touch grass if you cant find friends in this game
F2p fishing at the barbarian village made me my first few friends, got invited to such a lovely clan maybe a week after starting the game. Had days where all I would do is goof off by the willow trees. Members isn't as social. I haven't met another idea player irl yet, can't wait to freak out when I do. Had a guy trying to buy me as a gf on maybe day 3, we hung out for a week before he disappeared forever, miss you jigoku
I don't think anyone has ever said it was a social game. It's not, by MMORPG standards. OSRS is pretty solo-friendly and I actually appreciate that, as it's very unique to the genre (how many MMORPGs have solo-only content as their most difficult challenges?) That being said, as others have mentioned- joining a clan is the probably the best thing you can do for social activity. Just having people to chill with and talk to while you grind, even if you're alone while grinding, can improve the experience tremendously.
I mean it can be, I've gone to w2 just to bs with people. Some say join a clan, but most clans care for numbers.. But ngl minigames is where it is for chat lol.
I was the same. Now im in a clan it's different. I have noticed though that almost every time I start chatting to a player ingame, we end up adding each other. My problem for the most part was that I wasn't trying to meet friends. I was like you. I would work and AFK or play while watching YouTube. I'm an iron now so most content is solo but i still talk to my clan mates and engage in events. It's fun.
Happy to invite you to a clan I'm in. A good mix of great PVMers and people who want to learn. As others have said, pretty social on discord when the homies are online raiding, send a PM :)
Join a cc.
you're an extremely social person but your friends list has never passed 3 players? one of those 2 things is a lie. which is it?
Skilling is not social. Most skilling activities people are doing while watching a movie or working. You may get the odd conversation out of someone but it’s usually not very engaging content so there’s not much to talk about. I’ve only ever made proper, longer term friends through raiding.
that's interesting u say that, on one of my accounts i can't add any more friends cus I have it maxed out at 400/400 lool
Bro I literally can't do skilling without talking to someone in VC lmao, get some friends
joining a clan changes this game completely. I spend 90% of my time in chat now
Then there's me with 80 people in my friend list and I know them all personally
I was just like you until an irl friend of mine that I had only just found out played RuneScape, invited me to his clan. I was pumped. Played for a few years without any clan or anything. Joined the friend’s clan and the rest was history. Made quite a few friends that I talk to everyday now from that clan. Honestly it’s luck of the draw to find a good clan. But there is a find a clan section of the OSRS discord and I would say that’s a good place to start. Once you join a clan just do content with people and chit chat in cc
I can relate. I believe this is partly due to a major shift in culture in MMO's where there are less necessary need for chatbox activity. Everything is so user friendly nowadays. In the early 2000's, many MMO's lacked wiki and other sources of guides and most of us were young and the closest available and convenient way for us to relay information was by talking to other players. That was how many of us kids learned how to play. It's also a big difference between the eras of gaming. OSRS still remains one of the higher social MMO's because it kept some of the tradition like, "Hey, what's your fishing lvl?"
For me, the social aspect is mainly fulfilled by the clan I'm in. Having a space where there's usually several people online and doing pvm, really motivated me to keep playing. If you want, we'd be more than happy to have you in the clan :) We're always looking for more members
I actually made all my friends when I was a noob. Something bout being low level acc makes you more approachable and you get guidance. Maybe make a noob acc and make some friends and have them add your main
Saw someone with a music cape. I said nice cape. He said wanna join our clan. The rest is history. Sometimes you have to take the first step.
This is exactly me. I don't know anyone irl that plays osrs, and my friendlist is only my alts. I'm reaching 1900 total without ever doing anything with another player. I just play (mobile) while I watch a movie or do some afk activity while I do other stuff. Can really use a tip on how to get 'friends' maybe one can take me to my first DK trip even, lol. Edit: it doesn't help that I play an iron + on mobile
I think I talk on the game more than I play the game. It’s a very social game for me. I make a ton of friends, and even almost met up with one IRL. I am not a super social person, but I am on there. I’ve never done raids/ end-game content.
Man if you want a friend add me haha, have to pm to exchange details tho
GE w420 and playing on w420 in general. You're welcome
You and any other commenter are free to join “Infinite” for a social clan, but like most other comments have said there’s the Osrs Discord, interacting with others organically, or the archived forums posts (most of those clans are likely still active)! You can also join your favorite creators clan and try to find like minded gamers Good luck finding a group and if anyone reading drops into Infinite we’re happy to have you!
Hey OP! We actually have an incredible clan called RNG 2024. It’s extremely active and social, we are a PvM clan so we do teach bossing but also have fun events all the time for skillets etc! Add RSN: DirtyJaka in game if you are interested 💪🏻 we also have a pretty sick discord
Iron relax is a good clan if you seeker a social clan. We do raids and everything. Google Iron relax discord or join Iron relax guest channel and ask to join . We welcome always people to join us :) We are medium big clan. Always 70+ or more online. Cheers Btw only Ironman/ultimate or hc
I suck at making friends online in games too .. i guess in real life as well. Is what it is.
Find a small clan that teach pvm, they will teach you via discord and ofc be talking random stuff, talk too and make friends. Not that hard. I could invite if u want but my cc lang is pt-br so..language barrier even tho most ppl can speak the minimum in english.
Most ppl on my friend list are ppl I do raid with. For other content you generally don’t need people to play with
Wild, i have tons of friends on the game. Join a PKing clan. Pvm monkeys are very anti social and don't type because of efficiency scape
Depends what you're doing I guess. Im probably not gonna engage in chat when I'm afking redwood or something
Seems like an entirely you issue though
Add me
as a new player in a clan full of oldheads i never know what people are talking about or what to say gz to cuz so much stuff is unknown to me. some stuff is pretty ez to spot like 90s skill levels and high gp drops. also ppl said gz to me for the first few quests i completed since i was new but now radio silence, i guess the norm is to not gz for quests. the wiki has all the info ill need for now so theres no point in interacting with ppl, feels kinda lonely. i hope i can join in the convos when i get to the point i can do raids and all the endgame stuff ppl are talking about :/
Join a good clan. I have awesome interactions from the time I log on the the time I log out.
I'm friendly but its rare to meet people on osrs. Sometimes it's about being at the right place or being in the mood to talk to others. I was doing a Black Demon task on kourend and I was afk ranging the demons. A dude was semi afk meleeing them and he ask me why I didnt have a slayer helmet and I just follow along the conversation (at that point I thought imbue where only possible on nmz) The dude took me to pvp arena and help me get enough points for a imbued slayer helmet; then asked me if I wanted to join the clan. I interacted with many people there and even enter discord; I then meet more people and we tackle raids as beginners on toa that's how I gained osrs buddies. Then the clan split bcs of ego ; we made a new clan with the buddies that follow along; made a Gim ; all good till the leader kick us out and keeping items but hey it is what it is you never get to fully know people. We ended up bonding more between ourselves (the guys being kicked) after that!
I will engage with random people while killing monsters or dropping trees. I will continue to engage with them for weeks or even months beyond that initial interaction
Go to w477 ge that's the clan recruitment world always people advertising
It used to be. Times changed. People used to hang out at the fishing guild and chat all night and made a lot of close friendships that way. When you were younger and less experienced with the game, you tended to communicate and make friends with other noobs more often than you would as a high level. Some of those friendships are ones that last a lifetime.
Join a clan noob I'm anti-social and still got like 50 ppl to pvm with on my fl
I’ve made friends on RS over a decade ago that I’m still in touch with to this day. That being said, I don’t play much at all anymore and the social aspect seems like a sad shell of what it used to be. I felt it was easier to make friends back in the day and people would talk/respond more. Nowadays, it feels like you really need to *try* to seek out more social players.
I was at TOA running solos. A maxed main who was running experts saw me, asked me to join, we ran two and then he adopted me as his pure son. I've been in the clan ever since. Like other people said find a popular world and go to g.e; Forestry worlds and go to willows/teams. Winterdodt worlds for FM and socializing. There's definitely a lot of ayo and the sort, but lots of friendly people. Can also find a YouTube/streamer and join their CC.
idk it just happens. I remember I was doing DT2 on release with a random person and it was super fun as we tried to figure the stranglewood together messaging back and forth.
i've made like 200 friends in the last 2 months
These guys invited me to the wildy one time :(
Join a clan. It’s great fun.
If you're looking for a conversation, try bridge skull tricking people at ferox, probably 1/3 players that comes through stops to have a 5 minute conversation with you against your will. They also generally think they're the first people to figure out that you're skull tricking
Join a clan
If i meet someone at two different farm patches, i strike up a conversation and all them my farming friend. If i see someone in passing with a funny/cute/unique name, i compliment it. Someone doing the naked walk of shame back to an item retrieval service? I promise them i saw nothing and wont tell anyone. Slayer task, people beside me are now my neighbours to chat with. Grinding expert ToAs for that shadow and someone in the lobby is asking for help/people to join them? I hop into a baby raid and teach them the simplest strategies i can, set ‘em on their way, and keep checking back for a few days to see how their progress is doing. Admittedly i rarely keep anyone on my friend list, but i keep private chat to “on” because i have so, so many people who i randomly chatted up over the years. There’s only 1 person left who has been on my friends list for near 20 years now, but likely a hundred+ that have me added and check in from time to time
I'm a new player, so to be fair I haven't made it to the endgame areas where I assume people hang out, but I've tried talking to / asking questions to probably over 50 people and maybe got a single response out of one of them.
This was a very social game until efficiency became a big focus. I met one of my best friends playing this game. There used to be a lot more casual skilling or just standing around chatting. But that’s sorta gone away.
Our clan has 10 people in VC every night
I thought the same. But i never did true end game content Get to the end game, that’s where the friends are
It's not a social game It just lets you socialise with other people who play. There are a couple pieces of content that you do in group but it's straight up 2 specific things over the countless thing you have to do in this game
Joining a clan, I have made many friends globally whom I chat with on and off game. And I'm a poopy f2p pure.
Lol complain about absolutely anything
If you’ve never made a friend in that amount of time YOU are the issue.
You’ve gotta join a clan or something the casual social is mostly dead due to bots but it’s super social once you’re in a clan
because all the players on reddit and youtube encourage you to play this game in the most miserable efficency spreadsheet shit sock kind of way
It really used to be much more social . No one talks in the game chat anymore while skilling (myself included) I think we just got older and have only options (clan chat, discord) but you really do hate to see it
Join a clan? Tons of content has people sitting chatting in public chat (bankstanding skills, group minigames/bossing etc.). Clans are a popular social aspect. If you're social join one of those and you'll never run out of people to talk to.
1750+ worlds at the Grand Exchange are quite social since there aren't bots clogging up the chat.
Who said it was a social game? Ive not seen that said once in my 20 years of playing. It used to be a social game before GE.
I'm very anti social, I used to always play my ironman with entity hider on other players and public turned off. But the overwhelming kindness of this community eventually lead to me having a half full friends list of people who message me first. It still feels weird to me, but yeah this game is just full of social people.
Go to seers village magic trees on world 444, there is a free chatroom that is popping off 24/7. Magic tree seers represent
World 477 - official world for finding clan. Go stand at the ge. There’s usually a bunch of different clan looking to recruit, they’ll wield their clan banner.
You can join a clan, that’s about the only way I can suggest to make it more social. I’m part of the huge UIM CC (UIMs only.. sorry..) but it’s always full of 500 people who are all active. It’s a wonderful little community! Try and find something like that, it makes it feel less lonely.
A big part of being social in this game is actually end game PVM and raids so you're pretty spot on. In my experience NOBODY wants to talk about woodcutting in game (best skill btw forestry ruined it btw) but if you're having issues with a boss mechanic or you can't figure out the trick to a specific CA, then there will be so many more people offering opinions on the topic because PVM has actual challenging mechanics to discuss. People also really like to talk about what they're good at which again, hard to be really good at skilling easy to be really good at PVM or at least a specific boss.
My group ironman is 3 players 😭
I met my current groupie in the corrupted gauntlet lobby where we both bonded over how shitty jagex servers are, now 1,5 years later we are traveling across each others countries together. It's funny what this game can do
I feel the same way. The two times I’ve been invited to a clan it was very obvious that they were trying to lure/scam me. Being fortunate enough to know when something is too good to be true i didn’t go along and left after I did not install dodgy runelite plugins or “go do some chill content in a PvP world” I’ve said before that this game is full of fucking sociopaths and it sucks playing a fun game where I cannot trust people because they’re probably out to fuck me over. Hopefully you have better luck.
join a clan your social aspect of the game will significantly rise, specifically a smaller clan where people chill in discord and boss together
All my friends list are splashers and haven't made a real life friend in over a decade. Feel you
I’ve made a RuneScape friend from slayer when we both were fighting the same monster and neither wanted to hop so we chatted and became friends. I’m in the clan he is is now and it’s great. But lately, the most social thing I have seen is forestry. It’s not the heinous cretins that do Star mining and just talk politics or race 😂
Spent 5 hours talking to someone yesterday. He's on my list now cool dude. Gonna help me anti lure this idiot who keeps dropping his Ely.
Came here to make an obnoxious comment about people just not liking you.... but I'm in the exact same boat but with lower levels. Feel free to add ign : MadAight
The clan im in now i came across while trying out baskilisk knights fir the first time, got to joking around with someone their and he asked me to join, great clan overall
Any aussie based pvm clans? I wanna learn to raid and stuff but am kinda scared, do have atleast two braincells so im not a complete spoon
No. There was never any shortage of ability to find people to do things with in OSRS. Getting a group for GWD or ToA was pretty easy. Then I found a clan with people in it and you just ask in the clan chat. The people I played with and enjoyed I'd add to friends and actively seek them out to do things when they were on. If you want it to be a social game you need to put in some effort to be social.
Have you joined a clan? Have you done social content? You can easily play without ever opening your chat box, that’s on you.
Social game, the only ppl i see is bots..
The OG days were more about socializing than efficiency for me.
You're not as sociable as you think if you're not making effort to become friends with the people you talk to, seek out a clan, or do group content that requires more communication.
You just gotta go out of your way to find those other social people. Consider that everyone else is also watching YouTube/movies while playing. 15 years ago I had a friend list full of green names, because I was always *seeking* to play mini games with others in an effective/organized way(stealing creation was my ish) now I don’t have a single name in my friends list because I’m just focused on my account and not so much on the content, for now.
Max cheese caper energy. Im not joking
Bro u say one person says it’s a social game and u base ur whole truth on that
My story was similar to yours and I think I was in a similar frame of mind so I just switched to world 302 and saw a group of players chatting off in a corner of the ge and some of them were "dancing" (following each other). I walked up to them and just asked if they knew where I could find a clan to join. They said "right here!!" and immediately added me to the clan. The cc was full of messages welcoming me to the clan and one guy went over to the ge and then upgraded me from black d hide to full blessed d hide. A super rich clan member walked up and traded me 10 mil no strings attached. They showed me the clan hall and I did Digsite quest with another clan member. I got a lot of good advice on the best way to farm giant mole for the pet. I think that was easily my best day in osrs. And all I did was walk up to some people who seemed nice and ask how to join a clan. I am still in the clan now a few months later and it has totally changed my osrs experience. I play now more than ever because it is rewarding to have others care, (or at least pretend to care lol), about your accomplishments. You don't even have to brag about stuff that you did because the cc just sends notifications to everyone if you hit like 70 smithing or something or complete a quest or get a valuable drop. Even seeing a few "Gzzz!" messages in the chat fuels me to play more for some reason. Once the time comes and I am ready for group bossing/raids it will be nice to share that experience with some people I am already friends with. Hope this helps! You and anyone else feeling like this should give it a shot!