Should we create WrongPlanet Gamer communities? RTS,MMO,RPG?

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Hi everyone,

I know a lot of people here are bound to be gamers and quite passionate ones at that. I've been tossing around this in my head for a little while and thought I'd post it here. Wouldn't it be cool if we had a clan/guild for various multiplayer games out there? So people from WrongPlanet could find people to group with and meet up on various games? I know Reddit usually has different subreddits for game communities like: minecraft, diablo, league of legends, skyrim, starcraft, and they usually have a Reddit sponsored clan/guild representing that community on the game - usually for casual gameplay with fellow members.

I think if WrongPlanet had a Gamer Corner or some other sub-community within this one it could be a good social outlet for people. It would readily help people identify games they want to play with people and then join that game communities guild/clan. Like having a WrongPlanet clan on Battle.net, Reddit community for gaming, etc.

If we can just find a good group of people and meet on mIRC and toss around some ideas I think we could make a proposal to Alex Plank and see if he will support it with the WP stamp.

Anyone have some ideas on how we could organize this? What do you think is an appropriate platform for this? Should we make a Reddit WrongPlanet Gamer community with sister reddits for popular games with sponsored WrongPlanet guilds/clans?

I'd love it, but I'm not really into MMOs or PC games in general. I have an Xbox and a PS3, though. Maybe some GTs and PSN IDs could be shared?

I Vote We Make A Minecraft Server So People Who Do Bad In Normal Servers Can Be Surrounded By People Like Them

I'm hoping a moderator can drop in and give us a sticky. I think have a bunch of sub-game centric communities would be good for everyone who participates.

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I play Battlefield 3, L4D/2, Forza 3 and Gears 3 online, on Live. Could be persuaded to play Killzone 3 on PSN.

I think it would be cool if there was a way to play Pokemon Cards on Wrong Planet. I fantasize about that from time to time and there aren't many "neurotypical" places to do that online, at least not for free.

I'm not familiar with many games, because I don't have anyone to play them with. Can someone please explain what RTS, MMO, and RPG are?

Howbout make an MMORPG named Aspergia it would be like all the MMOs in one and the world would be sooooo vast.

I must say, that idea for an online Pokemon card game here would be cool. I never played the cards myself, nor had any, but I would be willing to try if they had it here. I like the Pokemon video games, though.

As for an explanation of the terms:

RTS means Real Time Strategy, MMO means massively multiplayer online, and RPG means Role Playing game. They're all different genres of games, or types of games if you will. An RPG, Role Playing game, generally has you playing the role of a certain character, or many characters, who level up and acquire strength as you move along in the game. Games like Final Fantasy, Pokemon (the video game series), and other games similar to that would be very good examples of RPG's. RTS games are generally where the player utilizes entire groups of characters to attack, or perform any action that is, at once. These games usually have a great deal of strategy to them, and thus are called Real Time Strategy. A good example of RTS is Command and Conquer, or Halo Wars. And an MMO is a different version of RPG, where the player creates a character, levels it through fighting, quests and other things, and gains skills and gear useful for their character. However, these games have thousands of players online at once, live. Thus people can meet, fight, and converse in the games. Thus, Massively Multiplayer Online.
Hope that explains it well enough.

As for this subject of if we should create sub-groups for certain games, I'm not big on the idea, because then the forum would be all over the place. There would be TONS of groups, and there would be no way to get all of everyone's favorite RTS, MMO, or RPG games their own category. Unless you're talking about a group for all RTS, MMO, and RPG. That would work, but I think it would divide the forums too much. Besides, there's plenty of conversation on certain games here, some people have even began discussing starting up their own guilds, or factions in game for Aspies and other members of WP.
I'm not saying this isn't a good idea. But, it seems everything is working pretty well on the forums.

We have to keep stickies to a minimum so I can't promise anything - but, decide which threads you'd like and get them started, then we'll review how they're going and whether they're active enough to be made sticky.

But don't get carried away, Ok?
Think carefully about the categories and aim to keep them at a minimum.

Psst, Have you ever heard of Pokemon showdown the online Pokemon Competitive Battling simulator.
Though may I warn you, the won't let you use autism as a conversation starter.

I'd be down for a Steam group or something. Couldn't hurt!

If nothing has been done in the nearly four years since this thread was started, then there is not likely much interest.

I do wish people would look at the dates on threads BEFORE starting a new string of responses to them...

Yeah, the "Similar Topics" thing at the bottom of every thread tends to encourage a lot of necroposting. :X

Anyway, I think a WP Steam group or something would be awesome. I don't really do online multiplayer games that much anymore, but it would be nice to get back into them and play with fellow WPers rather than just randoms. Speaking of, does anyone here have a good connection for hosting a private TF2 server?

I'd be up for a Steam Group too!

I would be interested but unfortunately I died somewhere in between the four years it took you to write this reply.