# HWS Com Center (Faction Chat on HWS Connect)

**URL:** https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-com-center-faction-chat-on-hws-connect/40201
**Category:** 🖥️ HWS Connect
**Created:** [October 21, 2026, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-com-center-faction-chat-on-hws-connect/40201 "2026-10-21T21:10:55Z")
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#### Post date: [October 21, 2026, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-com-center-faction-chat-on-hws-connect/40201/1 "2026-10-21T21:10:56Z")

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The **Com Center** brings your **faction chat** to the website: read what your faction mates write in game and answer them from your browser or phone, without being in the game. It also holds your **Inbox** with messages from the HWS team.

👉 [HWS Connect → Com Center](https://connect.empyrion-homeworld.net/re/com-center) (NA players: `/rn/com-center`)

 ![Com Center on HWS Connect](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/uploads/default/original/3X/c/a/cafdc5b20e6055139e7eab0bf7f172a102222a39.png)

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## 💬 How it Works

1. Sign in to HWS Connect and select the server you play on
2. Open **Com Center** in the menu
3. Your faction’s chat of the **last 7 days** appears and updates itself every few seconds
4. Type into **Message your faction…** and press **Send** (or Enter)

- Your own messages are on the right ( **You** ), your faction mates’ on the left with their name and time. Lines you typed in game show up here too
- In game, a message from the website arrives in the **Faction** channel as a SERVER message with your name in front, e.g. `PlayerName: hello everyone`
- Max. **500 characters** per message. Free for everyone

> ℹ Only your **faction** channel is shown: no global chat, alliance chat or private messages. Other factions can never read your faction chat here.

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## 📬 Inbox

- Messages from the HWS team about your purchases land here, e.g. where your new [HWS Residence](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-residence/14308) is. The Inbox shows only when you have messages
- The **envelope** right of your Steam picture at the top of the site shows a **red dot** while a message is unread. Click it to jump to the oldest unread one
- Click a message to open it (that marks it read), or use **Mark all read**. With browser notifications on, you also get a push
- Messages come in your site language. You don’t need to open a ticket for what they tell you

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## ✅ Requirements

- You must be **signed in** (the faction chat also needs a **player faction** on that server). Just joined a faction? It can take about a minute to show up
- You **don’t** need to be online in game
- Each server has its own faction chat

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## ❓ Common Messages

- **“Faction chat is only for faction members…”** : you are not in a faction on this server (or just joined one). Wait a minute and reload, and check the server selector.
- **“No faction messages in the last 7 days.”** : nobody in your faction wrote in faction chat this week.
- **“Lost the connection to the chat. Retrying…”** : the page retries by itself.
- **“The game service did not confirm the command. Check in game before sending it again.”** : your message may already have arrived. Check the in-game chat first, to avoid a duplicate.