Changes: Server-wide Announcements

Revision as of 12:39, 25 October 2014

Server-wide Announcements (also known as the News Feed or Broadcast Announcements) are a feature that allows certain news as well as player accomplishments to be displayed to all other players in the Chat box. Certain messages are only broadcast across the server on which the player is logged in while others are displayed across every server. Any achievement is displayed to the player's friends. Messages that are server specific are displayed in orange, worldwide messages in red, and messages to friends in green. Game announcements will appear in yellow. Jagex Moderators have the ability to send special global announcements.

Prior to the New Interface System, a player's achievements were only displayed to everyone if they had their private chat set to on; they were displayed to any friend so long as their private was not set to off. After NIS, these broadcasts cannot be turned off, and are still shown to other players even if both the private chat and online status are set to off.

Players have the option to toggle these announcements on or off in their chatbox. Originally, achievements were filtered with the rest of the game messages; now, only the game announcements are filtered this way.

Game announcements

News: Goblins are conducting a raid in the Lumbridge farm!

These announcements are game-related news that inform the player of an upcoming event. They are all server specific.

Goblin raids starting; players with a combat level of 95 or above will not see these messages by default and must toggle them on to get them
Demon Flash Mobs; a player must have a combat level of 120 or above to see these messages
Wilderness Warbands
Sinkholes
Holiday related announcements:
- Gielinor Games Marathons (discontinued)
- Egg hunts (discontinued)
- Finding a ghost during the 2012 Hallowe'en event (discontinued)
- News regarding The Bird and the Beast (discontinued)

Broadcast announcements

Broadcast announcements are achievements regarding other players. They are handled separately from game announcements, being toggled on or off with their own button on the chat interface.

World achievements

News: Player has achieved 99 Attack

These announcements will appear to everyone who shares the player's world at the time. They will also appear to all of the player's friends regardless of what server they are on.

Certain valuable drops:
- Spirit sigils: Divine sigil, Arcane sigil, Elysian sigil, Spectral sigil
- Torva equipment: Torva full helm, Torva platebody, Torva platelegs, Torva gloves, Torva boots
- Pernix equipment: Pernix cowl, Pernix body, Pernix chaps, Pernix gloves, Pernix boots
- Virtus equipment: Virtus mask, Virtus robe top, Virtus robe legs, Virtus boots, Virtus gloves, Virtus wand, Virtus book
- The Zaryte bow
- Dragon full helm
- Seismic wand and Seismic singularity
- Drygore weaponry: Drygore longsword, Drygore mace, Drygore rapier, Off-hand drygore longsword, Off-hand drygore mace, Off-hand drygore rapier
- Dragonstone armour
- Dragon limbs
- Barrows - Rise of the Six shields: Malevolent kiteshield, Vengeful kiteshield, Merciless kiteshield
- Araxxi parts: Araxxi's eye, Araxxi's fang, Araxxi's web
Third-age armour:
Gaining 99 in a skill
Buying the quest point cape for the first time
Buying the Veteran cape (5 year) or Veteran cape (10 year) for the first time
Reaching a combat level of 138
Experience milestones in 50,000,000 intervals (50m, 100m, 150m)
Certain rare pets drops:
- Ancient summoning stone
- Araxyte pet

Global announcements

News: Player has been awarded the trimmed Completionist Cape!

These announcements will appear to everyone on all worlds across the game:

Achieving True skill mastery in the Dungeoneering skill
Achieving 99 in every skill
Earning the Completionist cape
Earning the trim for the Completionist cape
Earning 200 million experience in any skill
Various firsts for Ironman accounts, including total level milestones and quest completions
Dying on Hardcore Ironman mode with a total level of at least 500, including what total level the player had when they died

Achievements that will only appear to friends

News: Player has just achieved at least level 10 in all skills!

These announcements will only appear to the player's friends even if their private is set to off:

Completing a task set
Achieving all skills above a milestone in increments of 10; e.g. all skills above 50
Unlocking the "of Daemonheim" title from dungeoneering hard mode
Unlocking the "the Defeater" title from vorago hard mode
Finding a cute/mean phoenix eggling
Unlocking all spells in Livid Farm
Finding a Sceptre of the gods
Certain valuable drops:
- Glacor boots: Ragefire boots, Steadfast boots, Glaiven boots
- Automaton Gloves: Static gloves, Tracking gloves, Pneumatic gloves
- Godsword hilts: Armadyl hilt, Bandos hilt, Saradomin hilt, Zamorak hilt
- Dragon items: Dragon claws, Dragon pickaxe
- Draconic visage (visage drops from the Queen Black Dragon do not count)
- Bandos armour: Bandos helmet, Bandos chestplate, Bandos tassets, Bandos warshield, Bandos gloves
- Armadyl armour: Armadyl crossbow, Armadyl helmet, Armadyl chestplate, Armadyl chainskirt, Armadyl buckler, Armadyl gloves, Armadyl boots
- Zamorak armour: Hood of subjugation, Garb of subjugation, Gown of subjugation, Ward of subjugation, Boots of subjugation, Gloves of subjugation
- Saradomin items: Saradomin's whisper, Saradomin's murmur, Saradomin's hiss
- Ascension grips
- Celestial handwraps
- Razorback gauntlets
- Ascension signets
- Champion's scrolls
- Kal'gerion battle commendation
Winning a prize in Balthazar's Big Raffle (discontinued)

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 *Certain rare pets drops:
 **[[Ancient summoning stone]]
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 **[[Araxyte pet]]