A community dedicated to 30+ gamers. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by Anissem@lemmy.ml to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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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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[+] natecox@programming.dev 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 9 months 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 17 points 9 months ago

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 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 9 months ago

Sadly discord does make voice-comms quite simple.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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 8 points 9 months ago

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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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 9 months 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.

[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 1 points 9 months ago

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

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 9 months ago

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 9 months ago

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 9 months ago

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 6 points 9 months ago

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

[-] windowsphoneguy@feddit.org 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Battlefield 6

So not that patient, actually

[-] Anissem@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] moopet@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Anissem@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

We’re hoping to make it to 40 soon!

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 4 points 9 months ago

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

[-] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

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 9 months ago

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

[-] murmelade@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Americans I assume from the lack of mentioning location?

[-] Anissem@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

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

[-] murmelade@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Anissem@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months 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

[-] jmd_akbar@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months 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.

[-] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 8 points 9 months ago

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 9 months ago

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

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[-] Anissem@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months 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 9 months ago

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 9 months ago

Hope to see you there!

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Anissem@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Anissem@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Adalast@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Anissem@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months 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.

[-] Zeddex@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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 3 points 9 months 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

[-] Zeddex@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Hm ok. Maybe I'll give it a look later when I get the chance!

[-] Anissem@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

I think you’ll like it. My activity over the last 5 years has mainly been conversations in channel. I’m only just recently jumping on voice chat for some co-op stuff. Have a good one!

[-] techwithjake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

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 9 months 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

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