RuneScape Lobby

The RuneScape Lobby was introduced on 3 March 2010, along with the updates of Constitution, the iron smelting, and the Shattered Heart. It replaced the previous login screen.

When you log in, you are put in the lobby. The lobby allows you to see what world friends are online, as well as join a clan chat. You can also private message friends, as well as review new features. It also lets you set graphics settings, sound settings and account information.

Default Screen
After logging in, the player is shown a screen - shown below - where they can check and change email settings, recovery questions, check their inbox for messages, and see how many more days of membership credit they have, if any. If the player does not have a registered email address, recovery questions, membership credit, or have messages, red crosses will be shown instead of the green ticks seen in the picture.

To start playing, the player can select one of their favorite worlds in the lower right hand corner, or click the 'Click Here To Play' button to be put in a suggested world, if they choose not to select one manually.

World Select
The World Select is similar to the previous World select, however you can change worlds without leaving the game. This means you do not need to re-enter your username and password. The filter arrows (which are the arrows under World, Players, Activities/Locations, Type, Coin Share / Loot Share, and ping) filter out the worlds you want. The up arrow gives you the highest number, sort by alphabetical order (for location/activity), and/or member worlds while the down arrow gives you the lowest number,sort by reverse alphabetical order, and/or non-member worlds. Please note that you can filter the types of worlds (non-member/member) and other filter arrows at the same time by clicking a filter arrow in any category then clicking the non-member/member filter arrow. The Green highlight is your favorite worlds (It’s always at the top of down-right corner even while in other tabs). The orange highlight is the world you have selected, and the grey-white highlight is follows your cursor. The white text is for non-member worlds while the yellow text is for members.

Friends Chat
This displays your friends list, ignore list and the chat box, which lets you talk to your friends whilst not actually logged into the game. The report abuse button is also present on this interface allowing users to still report abusive users should any arise. Just like in-game, if someone of your friends list logs in or out you are notified in the chat window below the Ignore and friends lists. Currently some characters cannot be used in lobbies, such as < and >. Also you are not able to click a specific part of your message to change it like you can in-game.

Clan Chat
This is almost exactly the same as the Clan Chat in-game. However, users will not automatically join their last Clan Chat nor are they required to start their message(s) with "/" to chat.

Options
Gives you the options just like in-game and in the previous menu, except the Animated background Button (which can change the picture to the sites of Gielinor)

Exiting
When players exit to the Lobby, their scores are updated just as if they had logged out. The player will stay logged in for up to an hour in the Lobby. However, when re-entering the game from the Lobby they will not have to re-enter their name and password.

When players press the X on the top right corner of the Lobby, they move to the title screen. To return to the Lobby, you must then wait for a short amount of time then log back in, using your account details.

Instant Demo
The Instant Demo is a new game mode that was made to give people a chance to play on a smaller world with less quests without having to sign up. The option to play on the instant demo was introduced on 29 March 2010 on Runescape affiliate sites such as Miniclip. Once accessed, the instant demo is unlocked on the official Runescape website. Players get access to 9 quests and a restricted world and their progress is saved to their computer however players do not have access to several main features including chat (Quick chat is available). During the tutorial the player is known as 'Adventurer'. However once in game, this changes to 'Player #' (Where # is changed to a random number). Instant Demo is played on world 901.

Trivia

 * There is a glitch where the ping turns negative. This appears to only happen to your favourite worlds. This glitch has yet to be fixed.
 * When entering the clan chat name the disappearing and reappearing cursor makes the name move about.
 * A split second after entering the game, the Minimap will show 0 Life points and 0 Prayer points and will not show Summoning points if you are a member. The heart-shaped symbol of life points will also disappear. As well as this, the mouse icon also changes to look like a hand grabbing a pile of wood.
 * As well as RuneScape, the multiplayer FunOrb games (excluding Dungeon Assault) have also received lobbies. In the lobby, you get to talk in a chat box and play games. Although, FunOrb had the lobbies before RuneScape did, and they look completely different.
 * Unlike the previous world select, there is not a PvP or bounty hunter arrow filter. This may prove confusing to players when trying to enter a non-PvP world.
 * There was a glitch where-by if you log out of RuneScape, instead of going to the lobby, you go back to the RuneScape menu. This was later fixed in an update the next day.
 * You can't use Quick chat in the lobby.
 * When hovering over an owner's name, it would not indicate the rank.
 * There is an Easter egg where if you go to The Clan Chat tab, Click the Enter chat Button, then right click anywhere on clan entry but The Join Clan Chat, ok, or close, it will say Hai as an option. Hai is slang for hi and clicking it does nothing.
 * If you attempt to join a player who is in a lobby other than your own, you will receive the message "Sorry, you can't join that person."
 * There is a glitch when logging in the lobby and going to world select, on the top right where the star is, it will be gold even if it isn't a member's world. This glitch is not yet fixed
 * It was stated in the news of 28 April 2010 that a fully log out button(instead of returning to the lobby) was added, but just after the update, it didn't appear. This was fixed 20 minutes with another system update.
 * A glitch may occur when the "click here to play button" is pressed. After the game leaves the lobby screen, your original display name will appear during the black screen before changing to your current name. It also shows your original display name in all small-case characters whereas before the display name update all accounts had the first letter in uppercase.
 * From the 26th of May, there was a message saying "If no one else can help, maybe you can try...Quest help". This is a reference to the A-Team ad, which in itself is a copy of the introduction of the Hamish and Andy show, a radio broadcast in Australia.