Broadcast
Broadcasting is one of the tools in Growtopia. It is used to communicate with wider audience of Growtopia using global messages. Broadcasts have a ten minute cool-down time period between each one. /radio hides all players' broadcasts.
Requirements for Broadcasts
ALL Broadcasts
- Requires level 21+ and supporter rank.
Broadcast
- 300 Gems
Super Broadcast
- Costs 1 gem per player (depends on the amount of players online).
Custom Broadcast
- Costs 1 gem per player (Minimum: 1001, so 1001 gems)
Type of Broadcasts
Broadcast
A broadcast is done by doing /broadcast <message> or /bc "<message>" works for longer messages. This will send the message to 1000 random people for 300 gems. This means the player is paying 1 gem per 3.34 people.
Super Broadcast
A super broadcast is done by doing /sb <message>, at a cost of 1 gem per player. This will send the broadcast to every online player. When a Super Broadcast is broadcasted, it makes a short beep sound.
A super broadcast can also be done through a Megaphone, or, with a Party Screamer (this version has pre-written text which cannot be changed).
Custom Broadcast
This is done by typing /cb <number of players> <message>, at a cost of 1 gem per player. The minimum amount of people that can be custom broadcasted to is 1001.
Super Duper Broadcast
Super Duper Broadcasts is done by typing /sdb, for the price of 50 Growtokens. The broadcast will appear in the middle of each player's screen. This was disabled after P.A.W 2014 due to server issues and being annoying.
Friendcast
A Friendcast is done by typing /fc <Message>, for free. This will send a message to all of the player's friends who are currently online.
Guild Cast
A Guildcast is done by typing /gc <Message>, for free. If a player is in a guild, this will send a message to other guild members that have their "Show Guild Member Notifications" enabled. A player without a guild will not be able to use this command.
What not to broadcast
As stated in the rules, players aren't allowed to broadcast about drop games, trust tests, casinos, and other betting games. Doing so can get the player punished.
Other things which shouldn't be broadcasted are:
- Lying about mods being in a world when they're not will get the player punished.
- Faking official Growtopia system messages will get the player punished.
- Broadcasting from an inappropriate world name. Doing so will get the world nuked.
- Broadcast to spam /msg other players.
- Starting a super-broadcast war.
- Singling out other players
Tweaks
- Sept 2nd, 2016: Increased price of all broadcasts by 1.5 during Systems Update.
- Feb 14th, 2017: Doubled price of all broadcasts to help cut down on spam and because of inflation during Valentine's Week.
- 9th, 2018: Increased price for /cb and /sb, also increased cooldown from one minute to ten minutes.
- Unknown date changed to require both level 21 and supporter rank to cut down on spam
Other Broadcasting
- A Megaphone works the same way as super-broadcasting except it is a consumable which can be traded.
- A Party Screamer works the same way as a megaphone except what is said during the broadcast cannot be controlled.
Gallery
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Message displayed upon ban
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Seth demonstrating how SDB works on 17.02.2017
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Seth demonstrating how SDB works on 17.02.2017
