Community chat and server feeds
Your community chat on Farm Sim Game, its channels, and game server alerts in it, each sent to the channel you pick: online and offline, joins and leaves, a live status card, admins, mods, farm and savegame alerts, restarts and sessions, with notices for followers or staff.
On this page
Your community chat lives on your page's Chat tab and in the Farm Sim Game app. It's separate from your Discord server: nothing is copied between them. Players who join are in every channel.
Every community starts with three channels:
- #announcements: only your staff post here. Anyone can read it, even before joining, and your followers get a notice when you post (at most one every half hour).
- #general: your original community chat.
- #server-help: questions and problems on your servers.
With an FSG Supporter tier you can add up to 10 channels of your own and rename or reorder them.
Game server alerts#
Each of your game servers can post what happens on it in your chat, the same things the bot posts to your Discord channels. You choose where each alert goes: the server's own feed channel, any of your other channels, or nowhere. Nothing here changes what the bot posts in Discord.
Every game server gets its own feed channel by itself, listed under Server feeds in your chat. A new server's feed starts with online and offline, joins and leaves, admin changes, mod list changes, farming sessions and the player count in its topic. A feed that nothing posts in is hidden from your chat. Alert messages come from the server, marked SERVER: players can read and react. The latest changes also show in the Server activity section of your page.
The Website chat tab is laid out like the Discord tab, in the same sections and order:
| Section | Notifications |
|---|---|
| Game server notifications | Online, offline, player joins, player alerts (the server's watch list), player leaves (with playtime), the players online and overall playtime displays (in the feed channel's topic, like Discord's renamed channels) and mod changes. |
| Premium features | Player tracking and equipment tracking (a card with a link to the live map instead of a map picture), Top 25 and activity auto posts (every 1 to 24 hours), admin join and leave, and advanced offline notifications for staff. |
| Premium features - extended | Scheduled restart warnings, daily farm stats (at the hour you pick), new players, and playtime milestones (a post instead of Discord's playtime roles: your playtime role steps, or 10 to 1000 hours). |
| Auto embed | A live status card: one pinned message with who's playing, updated as it changes. |
| More alerts | Mod updates available, farmland sales, farm task activity, farming sessions, best price alerts, great demand, the contracts board, the used equipment lot, server progress, weather warnings, the weekly recap and farm alerts. |
| Link XML alerts | When we can't reach the server's Link XML. |
Each one needs exactly what it needs on the Discord tab: the same FSG Supporter tier, checked the same way. One you can't use yet shows Disabled - This is a premium feature., like in Discord.
Notify sends a notice (and an email, if they get emails) when an alert happens: to the followers of your community page, or to the server's staff (everyone who has opened its settings). That replaces Discord's role pings. Each alert sends at most 6 notices an hour.
With an FSG Supporter tier you can write your own text for online, offline, joins, leaves, admin
changes and mod changes, using {server}, {player}, {playtime}, {on} and {max}, like your
custom server messages in Discord.
Then open its Website chat tab.
Choose Don't post to leave an alert out, and Notify to tell followers or staff.
They take effect right away.
Joins, leaves, online and offline post as soon as the bot sees them. Farm and savegame alerts, new players, milestones, top players, activity and farm stats are checked every 5 minutes. The weekly recap posts on the day and hour set for the Discord weekly recap (Sunday at 6 PM until you change it), and restart warnings only come when you have restart times and a warning time set. While the player count is in the topic, the feed channel's topic is written for you.
To rename a feed channel, open Chat & server feeds in your dashboard.
Running your chat#
- Everyone who can manage your Discord server (owner, Administrator or Manage Server) is an Owner in the chat once they've opened it signed in. Owners can make other players mods.
- Timeouts and bans count in every channel.
- Owners and mods can pin messages.
- Players can report messages to FSG staff.