Join messages were stored in exp_legacy's PlayerData, which nothing
ever synced. The controller now keeps a players.json datastore of
per-player settings keyed by player name, starting with the join
message, and saves it on the save and shutdown hooks. Records with
nothing set are removed.
When a player joins, the instance plugin fetches their record and
prints the message to everyone over rcon in the player's colour, so no
lua is needed to show it. The in-game /set-join-message and
/remove-join-message commands send ipc which the instance forwards to
the controller; /set-join-message without a message asks the instance,
which prints the stored message back to the player.
Greetings is now a feature. Disabling it stops the greeting, the
commands, and the printed join messages. The private greeting with the
community name and Discord link is shown to every joining player, even
those with a join message, since one is a welcome for the player and
the other an announcement to everyone else.
Two controller permissions cover the web interface:
exp_scenario.join_message.set for your own message and .set_other for
anyone's, checked against the requesting user the same way
exp_discord_auth checks unlinking. The seed grants them to Supporter
and Moderator alongside the in-game commands. The user page gets a
Scenario section showing the message with an edit button for users who
may change it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The greeting reads the community name and Discord link from the new
community_details feature, which exp_legacy can not depend on, so it moves
to exp_scenario/control/greetings.lua along with its commands and
locale. The custom message still lives in PlayerData for now.
The hardcoded per-player join messages in config/join_messages.lua are
removed with their fallback, as are the preset player colours. Player
sync already restores the colour of returning players, so new players
keep the colour Factorio gives them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
