exp_legacy recorded each player's locale in PlayerData statistics
which nothing read. The lua side now sends one ipc event with the
player's locale when they join and when they change language, the
instance forwards it, and the controller stores it on the player
record.
The Scenario section of the user page shows the language by name with
a flag made from regional indicator symbols. Locales with a region use
it directly, the rest map to a country through a small table covering
Factorio's locale list. Arabic, Catalan, Basque, and Esperanto have no
single country and get no flag.
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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.
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