Cimmarian

How I made Live Now Banner and Why

Some users might be wondering how I went about making this banner.

I wanted 4 major things.

Colours and Image Must Pop. (art)

Must show what I am playing (game)

Must include what I am doing (streaming)

Must advertise the who what where when and why. (mostly done in text)

If you look on the far right Bryan photo you will notice he’s dulled out and rather green. This is because in this…

Adding more lifestyle features to Cimmarian

Cimmarian’s goal is to create a place where gamers can come together to better themselves in many ways. One being your personal health and wellness.

This week I started a FitBit group (You don’t need to buy fitbit premium or their products)

Don’t forget we have dedicated posts on the website and the Cim Boards that you can also utilize.

 https://cimmarian.discoursehosting.net/c/lifestyle/health-a…

Had fun trying my hand at PvP. Feel free to check it out.

Final conclusions fixing videos

As many might have noticed this was not as simple as record, take up space and upload. Between codecs, audio syncing, post production on audio, noise reduction on background noise, EQing etc. You get the point

Tenacity in the face of adversity

This is gonna take awhile for me to figure out due to old saying “If you want to do things right you need to do them yourself.” This is exactly the moment…

Oh boy audio is mean!

I have been working on this video for about 4 days straight now. Between re-syncing within it and trying different codecs and uploading a test to youtube and having it just decide to fail at 99.9%.

As stated before I pulled audio worked in post but the video editor and codecs keep not playing nice. I have tried all sorts of different set ups even low Standard Def just to see what might be…

Crack working hard 3

Here we are again, This is gonna take awhile. Having almost 3 hours of footage to work with and no angles to work on and how to edit it. Going into the deep end.

My challenges and what I need to learn

I need to keep users attention which can seem hard at first. You need to figure out what your goal is. Making people laugh? Teaching people how to play? Just a let’s play? Advertising the community?…

Crack hard at work part 2

So I mentioned how I had to use track extractions on multiple track layers to get the best sound and options per-video.

Why does this take so much time?

What makes this the hardest task is users open mic. Often most users don’t use compressors or any form of sensitivity testing. What this turns into is a hard compression in post and constantly zooming in to find their gamepad clicking, breathing…

Crack hard at work

What are you doing I don’t see you on Discord but some CVM / Game Days

So the task at hand seems more technical than originally planned.

First I had to set things up recorder side and had 6 audio tracks.

In order to do this, I had to make audio driver cables and run 5 through their own cable/driver and the 6th through the main cable which would feed through discord to run into the video program…

What is the most secure browser for gamers?

As many online users worry about their security there is always options but what are the best to get started with?

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ https://brave.com/ https://www.torproject.org/

Massive Update to the Cim Boards

 Bookmarks With Reminders and Descriptions

Bookmarking a post has existed since the earliest versions of Discourse, but it was a very simple feature. Maybe, to be honest, a bit too simple. In this release, we’ve enhanced bookmarking to make it far more effective — you can now optionally set a reminder date to go along with that bookmark.

You can also add a description to the bookmark so you can…

So the work never ends when tweaking for community comfort.

These tweaks are to combat trolls and spammers while any admin/mod are AFK (life/sleeping)

With all great automation systems comes with false positives! If for some reason you are muted because of some silly events don’t worry only the first strike it’s permanently muted until an admin un-mutes you.

This automation used to be set in a…

May the gaming commence

 https://cimmarian.discoursehosting.net/t/what-genres-do-you-want-to-play/367 

The vote is complete thank you all who took the time to let us know the most important genres.

To avoid oversaturation, We will be bringing out new genres starting with the most popular.

The idea of these voice channels is to be playing these games or watch others playing these genres.

They will only have one each for…

What gaming events would you like?

We would like to start gaming events and genre nights but the complication comes in when trying to figure out what game genres could be a hit for both playing together or watching others jam it out for fun on stream.

Why have genre days?

Try to remember that the days are not obligated play just so users know that these days are the main days most Cimmarian will be jamming the genre so it’s…

As the server continues to make cosmetic and role updates CVM has migrated completely into the bottom section to avoid having two CVM sections and two different CVM chats. This will help shrink down categories and active chats.

Step 2 the grooling battle “I think” is over.

Alright from the previous update users got to see first hand It was no overnight task. I could have invested 100% no sleep no game into this but no one likes to see this.

First major change

All users can see but can no connect without proper permissions (role/rank)

CVM Social Channels (Patreon)

MEMES Channel (500 messages)

All Media Channels ( 5 Messages)

Gaming Voice Channels / General Streaming…

Step 1 complete (At least to the best of my knowledge)

Figuring out how to deal with discords loops and holes starting with possibilities based around the “best-case scenario”

The first thing I needed to do was sort out the Cimmarian Noob rank and how to deal with it to control trolls, spam, haters, inactive users etc.

When you activate @everyone to see everything and take over the other roles this means every bot, every thot and every ass walking…