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I’ve been a member of a discord community for over 6 years now. On any given night you’ll find people playing anything from Battlefield 6, Arc Raiders, Overwatch 2, etc. It’s a very active community with weekly events and we even have a sim racing group finishing up another season in iRacing. If it sounds interesting, they have a website for applications Over 30 Clan

Apologies if this is considered soliciting. I don’t get many opportunities to mention it and it’s honestly a great community. It took me a long time to find one of this quality.

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[–] Zeddex@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Seems interesting but not for me I think. The focus looks to be almost entirely competitive multiplayer games which I don't really have the time, patience, or interest for right now.

90% of my gaming is on handhelds these days(Deck/Switch 2). It's pretty rare that I'm on my PC and don't own any other consoles.

I've been looking for some communities on Lemmy/Discord that have more of a single player, especially RPG focus. I looked at the Falcom community but it's dead lol. Too bad I've been really into Trails recently!

I thought about joining the Falcom Discord but from what I've read it's just...bad. Doesn't seem like a welcoming place.

Started with Sky FC in 2023 and I'm on CS III now. I love this series!

I think you'll get a lot of hate for it being Discord exclusive, but the vast majority of people have probably never even heard of Matrix. I bet a lot of people on Lemmy haven't even.

Good luck growing the community!

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago

There’s a ton of people that focus on single player, RPGs included. The community has channels dedicated to all types on Genres and games. I’d give it a shot, there’s no pressure and you might find some nice people on there. Take care

[–] natecox@programming.dev 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Discord required

Nope.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Same. I think i'm too old to understand the point of discord.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 1 points 10 hours ago

I get the point, but I just don’t agree with it.

For example: I put some thought into finding a final fantasy 14 guild to help with putting together parties for content (so I don’t need to wait 40+ minutes for less common but mandatory ones) but virtually all the ones I found were “discord required”.

I just want someone to play content with occasionally, not a full time, always on community that demands I engage with it all the time.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 day ago

We'll make our own group, with matrix and hookers! On second thought, forget the hookers, keanu reeves is too wholesome for hookers, and will bring in enough friends for us all to sit shoulder to shoulder with as we take the red pills.

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I understand. It’s an unfortunate requirement since the community was built entirely around discord. It’s really the only thing I use discord for.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Makes sense, seems like most guilds now require discord. I just have no interest in being beholden to another enshitified service.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sadly discord does make voice-comms quite simple.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

TeamSpeak and Ventrilo still exist, Mumble does too, and Tox.

Trade offs for features and functionality with all of those, but I'm fairly sure those do all run on both Windows and Linux, at least, the latter 2 are open source, and the first two, well, you run your own dedi voice server, so that's at least less bad than Discord.

Hell, back in like, 2009, me and a friend group just had an eternal Skype group call, used that for gaming voice comms and general chat.

EDIT: Also, apropo of nothing... how's that card game framework going?

This whole year I've been mostly doing PT, recovering from injuries, hard to do serious game dev with a torqued up wrist arm and shoulder, but I am finally starting to get decent function back...

... it might be fun to try to basically remake Caravan from New Vegas, you think that would be possible in your framework?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TeamSpeak and Ventrilo still exist, Mumble does too, and Tox.

Yes and they're as much as a PITA to use as they've always been. There's a reason discord almost immediately swooped their userbases.

EDIT: Also, apropo of nothing... how's that card game framework going?

Currently development is on hiatus due to lack of time. But it's still working so people can always take and improve on it. I just don't have the mental space to work on it atm.

... it might be fun to try to basically remake Caravan from New Vegas, you think that would be possible in your framework?

I don't know the game, but any kind of game is possible in the framework. Just remember that it doesn't include multiplayer, so you'd have to add that yourself, or make it single-player only.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To all 3 points: Fair enough!

Yeah, Caravan is the card game from New Vegas, it probably would not be too difficult to replicate its AI for playing against NPCs.

Its... kind of like comepetetive, 2 player Solitaire, if that makes any sense.

Played with standard cards, not like TCG cards, you try to build 3 different 'caravans' of between 21 and 26 total... so, sorta like blackjack/21 in that aspect... but, face cards can be played on either your caravans or your opponents, and they do special things.

The other element of Caravan is that you can play with custom decks, but you have to have a card from a different art style of deck to be able to have duplicates.

So... its... played with normal cards, but each player is playing their own deck.

In New Vegas, this integrates with the rest of the game, as it incentivizes exploration.

If you have a decent deck and know how to play Caravan, its basically an infinite money cheat, you can clean out many NPC Caravan players.

For a card game only version... maybe you could make it so that you can just win certain 'prize pool' cards, sort of like how Pokemon works.

Maybe instead of anteing up caps, you could mix in anteing up some of your own cards, and the NPC has to match in kind.

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

They’ve been around since 2010, so it ended up being structured entirely astound discord. Other than this community, I really don’t have much use for discord.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For me, the problem is not that you're soliciting, it's that you're redirecting people towards a closed platform (Discord). If your forum were fediverse enabled, like bbnode or piefed, it would be so much easier for people to interact with you.

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hear ya. It’s all I use discord for. The community has been around since 2010 so it got built all around discord.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you considered making an alternative social sport on the threadiverse. For more asynchronous discussions and as a backup location in case you have any discord issues?

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

I’m just a member but I’m sure the moderators would be open to hearing about the idea.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The absolute moment i get a proper, regimented bed time for all the kids sorted I'm signing up.

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Look forward to seeing you there. Lots of parents in the community as well. There’s even a channel dedicated to parents

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Read that title and thought, "that's not a very big community"

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

We’re hoping to make it to 40 soon!

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

There's only a lower bound, no upper bound!

[–] windowsphoneguy@feddit.org 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Battlefield 6

So not that patient, actually

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

We’ve been patiently waiting for BF2042 to not be the newest BF title. It was a tough slog to push through

[–] techwithjake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for posting. Applied. Might not be able to get on often but the ability to join up with a crew would be nice.

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I’m in the same boat. When I’m working I don’t have much time, but the community doesn’t put pressure on anyone. Hope to see you there

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any chance for people playing things like Factorio? Maybe Rift Breaker?

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

There’s tons of channels dedicated to various types of games, platforms and topics for discussions. Currently I haven’t seen anyone focusing on either of those in channel or voice chat, but it tends to be a constantly evolving range of games the group tends to focus on. There’s no shortage of people focusing on single player games and discussing them in channel and even on voice chat.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A nonprofit with a vetting process and weekly meetings is way too complex and/or serious for me. But good luck anyway.

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

You don’t need to take part in any of it. There’s no expectations or attendance requirements

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Americans I assume from the lack of mentioning location?

[–] jmd_akbar@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Primarily, yes.

However, we have folks from all over the globe. For example, there are folks from AU, SG, EU, UK, SA, to name a few other Non-US members' regions.

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Primarily yes, but there are some folks from all around the globe.

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cool. Doesn't work for me time-zone-wize but I like the concept. Wish you guys many enjoyable gaming hours!

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks! There’s tons of channels with discussions happening even when no one’s on voice chat. I often just appear on those when my work schedule doesn’t allow much gaming. I know we have some members in the UK and elsewhere. Take care

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's neat! I don't think many of the games I play (and poorly at that) would count, like Slay the Spire etc.

But, maybe in the Christmas downtime i'll apply and see what it's all about! Thanks for sharing!

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It counts for me! What do you think of Monster Train?

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I like it as a more relaxing version of Slay the Spire. I'm not great at either though, so take what I say with more than a few grains of salt. I feel like I can see the combos Monster Train wants more easily than in Slay the Spire, where I sometimes feel like I'm tricking the system OR the Spire is trying to trick me by offering something remoting that doesn't quite work with my deck.

How about you? Which do you prefer, or do you have a preference?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago

I totally prefer Mt

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not who you asked, but I just binged that game hard so I'm gonna answer anyway. Monster Train is a frustrating game. In some ways I like it more than Spire, but it feels shallow, like it needs something to make it more substantive. That said, I'm definitely worse at it than I am at Spire, which may be coloring my impression

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have the opposite opinion. It completely dethroned StS for me. Way cooler wombo-wombo potential and the mix&match of clans and leaders gives tons more replayability.

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I agree there's more meaningful permutations for replay in Monster Train, and that is indeed excellent. I just feel like there's more randomness vs skill/strategy at play in Monster Train than Slay the Spire. Or again, maybe I'm just not as good at Monster Train? Either way, both games are very good and I'd highly recommend either to almost anyone.

Although I do wish both games gave us just a little bit more narrative/lore into which to couch their excellent gameplay.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well MT2 did go into a bit more narration, on top of doubling the clans & leaders :)

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I haven't picked up MT2 yet, but it's on my wishlist for when I finish some of my current games :)

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

It basically makes MT1 obsolete by including all the old clans, and improving on basically everything.

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

It’s worth checking out. I’m fortunate to have some months off work and it’s great to have an older community to game with. Maybe I’ll see you there!

[–] _spiffy@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This sounds great. I've been looking for a group of people to just chill and play games with. My normal group and I don't really line up well with our hangout times.

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Hope to see you there!

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know that a Discord to Matrix Bridge is possible. Would you ever consider setting that up?

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately I’m just a member but it could definitely be suggested