Since we are now switching officially from Mumble to Discord as our voice program of choice, how many channels do we need for Virtual Table Top games?
In Mumble we could just make them on the fly so we had exactly however many we needed at any given time.
I know that many nights of the week we have at least one game running. Are there nights where we see more than one game active? Would two be enough? VTT1 and VTT2 as names?
Since this falls under General Games I think I can do the magic @Benbrada to summon the proper attention to this topic. (Iām still getting used to Discourse)
Does anyone think we need more than two generically named rooms?
All opinions are welcomeā¦ welcome to be ignored if they are stupid
I donāt think that those are permissions that they are going to be handing out anytime soon. I admit my Google Fu is weak but I canāt find anything except requests for the ability to make Temporary channels. The closest thing is that I saw some groups using bots to clean up and delete unused channels somehow.
Which brings us back to needing admins to make a few permanent channels.
I was thinking about the names of the channels and maybe āRPG Virtual Table Top 1ā āā¦2ā āā¦3ā would be a way to not only distinguish the different rooms but putting that RPG out front and spelling out Virtual Table Top might draw more attention. People could be looking for this type of gaming but donāt know it exists. (I didnāt for a long time). If we just name them VTT1, VTT2, VTT3 etc that isnāt very descriptive for people who donāt already know what it is.
I wouldnāt mind seeing this section of our guild grow a bit
2 Channels might be enough honestly. I just donāt know if we ever have more than two games going at once.
Keep in mind that there isnāt really a preset limit to the amount of channels you can have on a Discord server (well, there is, but itās stupidly high), so having 3 channels ājust in caseā isnāt really that problematic to begin with.
But from what Iāve seen you guys do, this stuff is fairly organize, so it really shouldnāt be too hard to have one or more admins create a channel, say an hour before, and delete it when youāre done. Itās not like āHEY! We need a channel NOW! Hut hut!ā
I think the permanent channels would be better received. Like you said there isnāt a tangible limit. Since there are VTT games most nights of the week I think it would be troublesome to find an admin to have them create a channel that would be deleted after 4 hours or so every night. It might not take long but itās a lot to ask from a repetitiveness standpoint.
Thanks. I think it just has to be approved at your level. I will make the non-ape-shit request in the proper forum and throw in a link to this thread for good measure.
Ah yes, I meant to ask you about this.
I was going to suggest a Virtual Table Top channel and also perhaps 3 General Games Group channels. That way a big group like this can overflow into those as needed but also they could be used by folks who are in any games that doesnāt yet have a channel. What do you think?
Just a heads up for those that havenāt noticed: We have a VTT channel at the bottom of General Games and 3 generic groups at the top of General Games that can be overflow for anything.
Unless the DMs here have the power to open and close channels ourselves, Iād say just make 3 or 4 channels for the days we run games the most: Wednesday, Thursday ,Friday, Sunday.
Alternatively, we could just have good communication to open and close campaign channels when we need to. Itāll be someoneās job to stay in touch with those of us running games, though. Some campaigns have to abruptly halt or go on hiatus.
