BrettspielWelt

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

General Questions

• What is a command and how do I use it?
• Who is the correct Contact Person?
• How do I find Admins und Mediators in BSW?
• How can I ask questions in the Tutor Channel?
• How can I take a Screenshot?
• Where can I suggest new games/features for BSW?
• How can I see whether I am registered in BSW?
• I registered, but it still shows when I log in that I am unregistered?

Profile and Language Settings

• How do I get my photo into my player info?
• Where can I change my personal information or add some?
• How can I change the language of the website?
• How can I change the language of the server messages and the games in BrettspielWelt?
• Which Characters can I use in my User ID?
• My login name is already taken , however, according to player info it is still free.
• How can I change my Login name?
• What advantages are there to registering?

Playing on BSW

• What do the Options host, invisibly and drawseat mean?
• How do I find fellow players?
• How do I find a certain player?
• My fellow player is no longer active. How can I finish my game?
• I left my game? How do I get back to my game and play again?
• My fellow player disappeared before finishing a game. Where can I report this?
• Who can I contact to report an issue?
• How do I behave correctly in BSW?
• How can I see which town I am currently in?
• Where do I find the single user games?
• What does '-- Mmh, xy, dafür gibt es jetzt aber keinen Taler' mean?
• What Commands can I use and where do I use them?
• When I looked at other player's info I saw the games Alhambra and Metro mentioned. Where can I play these games?
• I would like to play with a friend over the same IP, can this be done?
• How can I see which of my friends are on-line?
• How can I send a user an e-mail?

Main Chat

• What is the Main Chat?
• I always get SPV and SPV_en Chat. What are these and how do I get rid of them?
• Why do I get Channel Tutor_en, when I didn't enter it, why?
• What is the Collectchat and how do I activate it?
• What things can I change in the Collectchat?
• What do the abbreviations and Emoticons mean?
• How do I make a Chatlog?
• Can I store the settings of a Channel?

Technical Questions

• How do I activate Javascript and Java in my Browser?
• Which Java-Version is best for BSW
• Which Java version is best suited for BSW?
• Who can I ask about technical issues ?
• Which data is important for checking errors?
• How do I make an error log?
• How can I simulate the right mouse button with my Mac?

Connectivity

• I can log in into the world, but after 3-5 minutes keep getting kicked off.
• When playing in BSW the Client “hangs”.
• My FireWall is preventing me from connecting to BSW. How do I fix this?

Forum and Wiki

• Who can Administer a Forum?
• Where do I find Help in how to use the forums?
• Where do I find Help on using the Wiki?
• How exactly do you define "advertising"? Isn't every link, every posting containing a name already advertising? And how can something non-commercial be considered advertising?
• Why can't I post information concerning a good cause?
• What about forums for Cities and Guilds? Do these rules apply there as well?
• What about the policy "not mention names"? Doesn't it sound contradictory to forbid it in the fairness forum and on the other hand allow cities to post their 'Black Lists'?
• The rules clearly state that "X" is forbidden, but I am allowed to do "Y"?
• If we can not rely on the "letter of the law", how do I know what I can and cannot do? And does the last sentence pose a logical problem when it is applied to itself?
• Are all these rules really necessary? Does the law enforce them?
• What about my right to freedom of expression? Is this not censorship?

Meta Game

• How do you add special characters to the name of your plot of land?
• How do I build my house?
• How can I travel to different towns in BSW?
• How do I become citizen of a town?
• How can I start a town?
• How does the Town Management Ranking work?
• How do I move into a house?
• Can you remove buildings from a town?

Level System

• How do I get Points or Talers?
• How can I Spend my Talers?
• Can I Donate talers?
• What does 'Buddy[W9]' mean next to my login name?
• Do I score points even if I change my name?
• Are games scored, if my game partner disappears before the game is finished?
• Can I see my actual score?
• I have achieved what I need to move up a rank. Why have I not moved up yet?
• I have two registered login names. Can I transfer points from one login name to another?
• Why are there no users with Ranks W/K 20 und 21?

DownloadClient

• What is Download, and why do I want to Download the BSW Client?
• How do I install the Game Client
• How do I install the client under Windows Vista?
• Why do I have no sound with the Download Client?
• Why does text in my Chat, not scroll automatically?
• What is this Prop File and where can I it?
• How can I change colours, pictures and sounds in the Client?

Browser Client

• Why does nothing happened, when I click the 'Play' button on the main BSW Web page.
• I start up BSW, however, everything remains Gray what do I do?
• If I play too long, my computer starts to "lag badly" (graphics do not work) and I need to restart?
• My browser forgets who I am.
• Can I change the size of the Browser Window?
• I have selected full screen, however I lack a part of the game play area and/or the command input area.

Puppets

• What are Puppets?
• How do I find out which Puppet has what function.?
• How do I find the tutor-puppets
• Where can I find more information about puppets?
• I would like to create my own puppet. Which commands are there and what do I have to be careful of?