Sometimes chatters turn their models to face a wall, and point their weapons downwards, to emphasise the fact that they are breaking play in order to type chat text. Regular Quakers try to avoid fragging a chatting player, as its considered lame - a form of unfair play called chat fragging . Asides from ingame chatting, players also use ICQ, and other realtime instant messenger programs. Some gaming sites such as Mplayer, offer free software to further this gaming discourse. In addition, the Clan website has a very active message forum feature, and a news page.
Good teamwork involves the use of good communications.
Clan members frequently share .cfg files, that bind a number of vital game messages to the letters of the keyboard. The clans are strong centres of online comradeship. Members are recruited into the clans by game trial. Clans frequently have a membership scattered across several Countries. Players are often unaware of their comrades race, religion, political opinions, social status, or sometimes even gender.