The rental center is open 24 x 7 and has a limited inventory of popular (often) rented farm equipment for players to rent out at semi resonable prices. It is a self serve entity and prior to renting, players are required to physically go there and verify that the equipment they wish to rent is present and available for rent. If you find the equipment, you are then allowed to rent it online and take the equipment with you. Fuel and repairs are always included in the rental price. The Rental Center specializes in BASIC FARM EQUIPMENT only and is first come first serve in nature. Not all servers have Rental centers so check first.

The store is a busy place and there are some basic rules which must be followed by everyone for the system to function smoothly.

ORDERING EQUIPMENT ONLINE
When ordering new equipment online, please remember that the normal delivery period for any new equipment is a minimum of 24 to 72 hours. All deliverys of player equipment are performed by other players just like you, so please be kind and non-demanding.

LOT OWNERSHIP LIMIT'S
Players are allowed to own up to 6 lots in total on their HOME SERVER (as selected on their "My Account" page). On all other NON-HOME SERVERS, there is a 4 lot limit on ownership. Since we dont not have player "SLOTS" in our system, farmers can own land anywhere they want on as many servers as they want, and are not "trapped" in a slot on a specific server or map. Players can lease up to 2 additional lots in total per season if the land is available.

SCOUTING LAND FOR PRECISION FARMING
Players are allowed to Directly purchase the soil maps for lots that they may own and MUST pay on the website for each lots testing fee's upon purchasing the soil maps.

LANDSCAPING

Yes it cost money if you would like to landscape your land and you must pay for this as an in game purchase after carefully keeping track of the expenses. If a player chooses to modify his land, it must be done in such a manor as to not decrease the property value by leaving rough or jagged lanscapes that are not compatible with being used for any constructive purpose. All lanscaping must be performed tastefully and with decorum or you will be forced to correct it your own expense if ops or an admin tells you too.

Players are NOT ALLOWED to fill in ponds, lakes rivers, streams or plow them into farmable fields if it is a naturally occurring feature of the map. Please do not destroy the look and feel of a map to make something fit onto your property while building. Please use common sense !

NPC SELL POINTS

Players selling to NPC sell points are required to deliver their products directly to the NPC that they are selling to. Players may not substitute another more closer sell point that buys the same items for the one that they have chosen to sell to. This is NOT allowed.

Players are REQUIRED to deliver their goods first to the NPC and dump them before completing the sale on the web site and collecting the associated funds from the sale. Selling on the web (to cut the line and get a better price) prior to delivering the goods is expressly forbidden.

As a general rule of thumb, you should never touch, borrow, or use any vehicle or equipment that does not belong to you in game. It does not matter if you only borrow it for a minute to reflip your turned over vehicle, you are never allowed to take or borrow another players vehicle. not now, not ever unless given express permission by that player directly !

If it is NOT yours, DONT touch it. This is a simple and fundamental construct of our trust based system. If you cannot agree to this policy then you are NOT allowed to play in our system and will be banned if caught using things that do not belong to you !

Driving across land that you do not own is a ticketable offense and if caught, you will be fined 10K by the DOT or GFSN, and forced to make resitution to restore the lot to it's orginal condition. Please do not drive across lots that you do not own or YOU WILL BE FINED if spotted or reported to admins. There is no wiggle room on this and no acceptable excuse for trampling someone else's land.

We have ZERO tolerance on this issue, so please pay attention when working fields in our system

Sure, we know you would like to collect them all, but this is multiplayer and if you dont want lag, then you have to do your fair share to prevent it by picking your equipment out carefully. Do you really need 12 different tractors ? Probably not. Is having 6 coolamon motherbins too much ? What do you think . . Please use common sense and resist the urge to splurge on yet another one unless you are an equipment dealer !

ANIMAL LIMIT'S

Players are limited to having 5 animal barns per server. This is the MAXIMUM number allowed

Players MUST PICK UP THEIR BARN OUTPUTS DAILY and are not allowed to them to go unattended for days without picking up pallets daily from the barns, so as not to annoy other players on the server. Any player found to be not complying could loose their animal barns and privs after the 3rd complaint by other players sharing the map.

If an animals health drops to 0% this is to be considered a consequence of player animal neglect and it has been determined that this is penalty enough since they produce no income and cannot be sold unless restored to 100% health. There is no penalty that will be assessed in this situation.

Players are expected to self park any and all equipment NEATLY in the area provided. Players MUST DROP OFF EQUIPMENT FIRST before requesting payment.

BUYING EQUIPMENT FROM SHADY

After you have located a good deal on Shady's website, ALWAY'S go and check the lot to be sure that the equipment is actually available for you to purchase. Things can happen fast at Shady's, so you must exercise due dilligence by checking first, before blindly purchasing the item on faith alone. Always VERIFY AND CHECK THE LOT AND WEB PAGE, then buy !

SHADY AUCTIONS
Players can get great deals whenever shady has his monthly online equipment auctions. In order to be a savy buyer, try to find out the price of an item in the web store prior to bidding on it so that you know when to stop bidding on an item.

ALL PLAYERS MUST REQUEST A BUILDING PERMIT - NO EXCEPTIONS

DID YOU KNOW ALL BUILDINGS now require a BUILDING PERMIT to be filed when building on your land ! A building permit can cover multiple buildings on your lot.

Animals are a core component of farming life and here at GFSN we believe in realism. Players are required to transport purchased animals themselves, both when buying and selling to the animal dealer(with the exception of Chickens). Players caught having animals delivered by the dealer will be fined 50K by the DOT for each instance.

When selling animals from your barn, rememeber that these animals MUST BE IN 100% Health or you are not allowed to sell them. Players must haul and deliver them to the buyer.

Animals are also a core component of the dinner plate and turning bessie into a pallet of steaks or arnold into a pallet of ribs and bacon can be quite profitable for those who know the ins and outs of the meat business. We have a few simple rules that you must follow when using a slaughter house even if you own it.

Players can export their animals to the E-silo where they can be sold to other players and slaughter houses, only if they are in 100 % health and are adult's that are fully grown.


1 - You must have produced the animal that you are selling or slaughtering. You cannot purchase an animal and have it slaughtered as that is against our rules.

2 - The animal MUST BE AN ADULT in 100% health to be eligible for slaughter. There are no exceptions to this rule.

Players can make money and find work in our system by accepting contracts and then doing the requested work in a timely manner. Contracts can be for the export or import center (logistica), or can be DOT safety patrol contracts, audit contracts, WSS driving contracts, or even player contracts.

Successfully completed contracts will result in the steady advancement and promotion of your player level and in game reputation !

Players who enjoy driving can look for WSS AI generated player driving contracts delivering needed supplies to player owned factories located on all of our servers.. Players use WSS trucking depot owned equipment to accept and complete these driving contracts. Be sure to clean and refuel the equipmemt when done with it.

When playing the game, a player will at some point need to purchase basic in game farming supply's such as Liquid Fert, Solid Fert, Seeds, Lime, and Herbicide, etc. These can be bought and purchased from the FARMERS SUPPLY SILO conveniently located in the back of all IMPORT/EXPORT centers. Players can purchase any amount in BULK at the silo and pay for it on the FARMERS SUPPLY WEB PAGE which is listed under the FACTORIES BUTTON !

This is a cash and carry outfit and all items are sold in 1K units. Donators receive a valuable discount on all supply purchases. (Please note that supply's purchased from farmers supply are not for resale and are intended for personal use only)

This will give players an ADDITIONAL 30% for ALL CROP AND PRODUCTS that are organic once your farm has been inspected and certified as being " organic" (we reset ALL of your land in precision farming) . The certification apply's to ALL LANDS OWNED BY THAT PLAYER and said player is NOT ALLOWED to use any chemical fertilizer or herbicide on any of his properties. (crops from greenhouses do not qualify as they use herbicide by default)

The certification will cost 50K and last for 10 in game years (120 days RL) before needing to be re-certified again by an inspector. Players may also apply this to factories that produce dairy products from organic milk farms and grainery's that use flour produced by said player. ONLY AN ORGANIC FARM THAT IS THE ORIGINATOR OF THE ITEM GETS THE SALES BONUS AND ONLY ON SELECTED ITEMS that unlock for him in the marketplace.

It is also important to mention that organic goods cannot be transferred to another player and retain their "organic status". Only the original producer can reap the credits at sale time for any organic product or crop.

This is IMPORTANT to remember if you plan on paying a premium to purchase an organic farmers output. Players who opt for "organic" must actually use slurry, manure or digestate to fertilize their fields with each season as not using any fertilizer on your fields is a direct violation of the organic program which could result in your farm loosing the right to participate in this program !

Players can pay 2.5 million for an equipment dealership permit and build a dealership facility. The dealer lot must be placed on a commercial lot not used for farming in any way, separate and independent from any enterprise or farm. Your DEALERSHIP (purchased separately) building will need to pass muster and inspection before being deemed worthy to qualify for the occupancy permit.

If a player's checking account is overdrawn for any reason and stays that way overnight, Banking overdraft fees will be assessed to the players account. This generally happens when a player makes a mistake, or is bad at math This is looked upon poorly by the banking management and will result in an overdraft in a players checking account.

IMPORTANT: ALL LOANS ARE TO BE TRANSACTED THRU OFFICIAL LICENSED BANKERS ONLY ! Private loans are not allowed between individual players under any circumstances.

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS : Players looking to park their money into their savings account. Interest on savings accounts is paid out daily at an annualized interest rate of 3 % and added to your savings balance. Money can be withdrawn at any time without penalty. Interest is ONLY PAID OUT if your main checking has a positive balance in it.

CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT : Players in search of higher interest returns are encouraged to purchase BANK CD'S when they are available from individual banks when offered.

Any account that stays negative for longer that 10 days will be suspended, liquidated, and removed no questions asked. The player will lose all assetts in bankruptcy.

BUYING NEW FACTORY'S

WSS offer's 2 distinct classes of factory's.

BASIC FACTORY

A player can own up to 10 factorys of any type on a server. These include all of the basic factories that Giants has included with the software. They are cheap to build although they are not exceptionally fast producers. To purchase one, goto the webstore and pay for the one you want. Then, go request a building permit for the new factory and be sure to specify the server you would like it built on.

ADVANCED FACTORY'S

These are the more sophisticated factories with enhanced production capabilities and greatly enhanced output. Yes they cost a lot more money, but they are said to be worth every penny. Choices vary from server to server so ceck to see what is available on your server !

INDUSTRIAL PARKS

The industrial park offers easy access to all player owned factorys on the server, as well as it's own mini Import/Export center, and a handy underground pallet sorting facility that players can use to drop their mixed pallet loads into in order to sort them out into loads of individual products.

Players are NOT ALLOWED TO BUILD ANYTHING other than a FACTORY inside an industrial park.

Players who wish to build other buildings near their factorys are ONLY allowed to do so on private commercial lots that they own.

Electrical power is used for manufacturing at all player owned factories. All power plants and windmills in our system are exclusively owned by the We Say So Corporation and their power is sold directly into the E-silo market on the server.

Players must purchase their electricity on the open market via the E-silo or they can purchase power directly from the Tesla facility in the export center

Electricity must be manually purchased and transported to your factory and cannot be supplied by the ELECTRICAL GRID directly to factories. This is prohibited !!!

PLAYER GENERATED ELECTRICITY
Players are allowed to purchase solar panels and BGA's that produce power daily which is automatically credited to their E-silo account overnight. Players can purchase power directly from these energy producing players in the E-Silo Farmers Marketplace.

Please note that players are not allowed to own power plants but can own BGA's that produce electricity which can then be used or sold on the open market.

SLEEP TRIGGERS
Please DO NOT attempt to sleep by using a house or outhouse or any other means to make the game skip time to the next day. This is a multiplayer game and we NEVER SLEEP.

We are NOT a pay to play or pay to win community. Any donations that our players make go directly towards paying for all of those expensive high end servers that make up our Global community where players get together to play and have fun in the most realistic farming community on the planet.

Lets face it, not everyone can afford to donate, and we are totally ok with that. By donating, you are directly subsidizing and helping those who cannot afford to pay, and allowing them to have a fair and equal chance of success in the game, just like you.

Players cannot buy their way to success in our community. Everything has to be earned. There are no shortcuts,it is all upon YOU to learn and earn your way to success in our system.

This involves work, lots of work if you want to have a farm and nice equipment. Just like in the real world, there is no tooth fairy here that will show up and stick a new tractor under your pillow while you sleep. It cannot be bought no matter how much real cash you have, it HAS TO BE EARNED the old fashioned way via hard work !

When a player donates, they are rewarded with discounts that can be used on all the things that they want and need most in the game, like supplys, equipment and land. Also, any subscription donation of 5 bucks or more, gives the player the ability to deliver their own equipment in game instantly without having to wait for delivery, (and other players equipment orders as well, earning you cash as you can deliver equipment on any server in our system).

But wait there is more.. Just by making a subscription donation you also get a 30 day building permit (renewed each month) and the ability to instantly put down new buildings on land that you own without having to apply for and wait for a building permit.

All donation's help to keep the lights on here for ALL PLAYERS, so if your looking for a worthwhile cause and you want to dig deep, know that it is for a good cause and it is a non-commercial community that you are supporting and enabling.

So if this is the kind of place that you always dreamed of, but never found, then please help us to continue the mission by donating often and with reckless abandon and joy !

Please note that all donations are just that. They are offered on a monthly subscription plan to players.

Also please remember that being able to deliver equipment is a priviledge and not an entitlement. Thus if you fail to follow delivery rules, you can loose your privs even if you are a donator to GFSN. !

We hope you have a wonderful game experience in our system and will take the opportunity to participate in our town hall meetings where all policys are discussed, set and agreed upon by members like YOU.

On behalf of all of us here at GFSN, welcome to our farming community !