"We know how important Clans are to RuneScape. Reading over this thread, it's clear that your Clan is key to why you still play. Clearly, there's some frustration regarding the state of our clan system, so let me address some of your concerns.
Our Clan system is absolutely massive; its development came hand in hand with Clan Citadels which was one of the biggest projects ever undertaken by the RuneScape team. It involved content development, engine work, web-systems and a whole host of other parts which I won't pretend to understand.
Looking at the Clan Permissions - changing that would be difficult, it's a huge undertaking and you wouldn't see results for a long time, it'd also take developers away from creating other content - and at the end of it all, only the select few people who use some of these features (Clan leaders) would end up seeing them.
It's not as if we don't want to develop for Clans, in fact - there's quite an appetite to do so. The problem is that making changes to something that big requires a ton of work, and ultimately when we've made changes in the past, it's then created even more work. Admittedly, some of your suggestions just can't happen (stuff like having a dedicated development team exclusively for Clans) as that's not how we work, but there is stuff which we can do, and there are updates in the pipeline as far as I know."
The Water
RS3 Clan
06-May-2016 21:09:50