The Brettspielwelt Tutorial

Here you find all necessary commands to build and manage a prosperous city. There are two different commands: for all citizens and for the town council.

Commands for all citizens

/accede	The user requests citizenship of the town. The mayor has to to accept the request. You should contact him beforehand.
/resign	The citizen leaves the town. This needs no consent by the town. Leaving the town costs 20 Taler service charge. When leaving your home town, you cannot become a citizen of that town again for the next 31 days.
/ctell TEXT	Opens a chat with all citizens of your home town no matter where they are located in the world.
/mutectell [on\|off]	Disconnect / Reconnect yourself from the /ctell chat.
/vote NAME	All citizens automatically run for mayor in a monthly election. Citizens give their votes using this command during the month. You can vote as often as you want: your last vote counts. The election end every last of the month.
/blacklist	This command shows you the blacklist of the town you are in right now. Every User can use this command.
/inhabitants	Lists all citizens of the town you are in at the moment.
/cityinfo	Shows any town's data and opens its homepage (Webbrowser).
/canbuild	This commands lists which guildhalls any town may build. Permissions are granted by the appropriate guild masters.
/movein ROOM	Citizens untill rank below rank Patrizier can move into a farm, citizens of rank Patrizier to Burggraf can move into a townhouse.
/moveout	Citizens can move out of their farm or townhouse again.

My home is my castle

/estate NAME	Citizens of rank Landgraf and higher can be given their private patch of land by the mayor. Therefore please contact the mayor. You can decorate your garden and build your own house on it. Use this command to change your garden's name. You cannot change the name of your house.
/rmotd	The owner sets the motto of the day for his residence. To set the motto, he has to be inside.
/changeresi [1\|2\|3\|4]	Changes the look of your residence. 1 means the traditional house, 2 the smurf house, 3 the dragon cave and 4 the teepee. For this modification the owner buys 20 wood and 20 stone at the stock exchange at his expense.
/lock	With this command, you lock your garden, nobody may enter it. Unlock it again with the same command.
/changegame GAME	Citizens of rank Fürst and higher can install a game of their choice in their own house. The first use of this command is for free, each change of game costs 5% of the players Taler.

Commands for the town council

/assign NAME [Kaemmerer\|Stadtvogt\| Stellvertreter\|Botschafter]	The mayor [Bürgermeister] appoints his council members this way: Deputy [Stellvertreter], Treasurer [Kaemmerer], Chief of Security [Stadtvogt] or Ambassador [Botschafter]. Each appointment costs 20 Taler.
/accede [yes\|no]	The mayor accepts [yes] or rejects [no] a user's request to join the town as citizen.
/deputy [on\|off]	The mayor allows [on] or denies [off] his deputy the use of his commands.
/view [on\|off\|all]	The mayor decides who can see the town's current resource budget: off (only the town council), on (all of his citizens) or all (everyone).
/cmotd MOTTO	The mayor sets the motto of the day in his town.
/cityURL URL	The mayor sets the town's URL which will be shown with /cityinfo. It also appears on the listing of citizen sites.
/contribute AMOUNT RESSOURCE	e.g. /contribute 100 holz - The mayor or deputy pays the amout of raw material to move up the town's rooms in the manager.
/pinoption OPTION	The deputy can pin options to a game. These options stay untill the next server restart. They cannot be changed by anyone but the deputy. (e.g. /pinoption ivisible - this room is not visible in the manager, it's a private room for town citizens.
/extendland	The mayor extends the town's land to 70x70 squares.
/extendland yes	The Treasurer agrees this extention.
/tax RATE	The treasurer sets the town's taxrate, the maximum is 100. Each citizen will automatically pay the set amount of Taler monthly.
/support GAME AMOUNT	The treasurer can donate money to a guild (10% will be lost in the transfer).
/prodmsg MINUTES	The Treasurer / Ambassador activates a message in the /ctell chat about new orders in the Weberei (weaving mill) or Schmiede (smithy) and their completion. This messsage will be repeated in the given interval as long as the order is not completed. /prodmsg 0 deactivates the message.
/votefairness NAME	The Chief of Security elects the 4 mediators out of the acting Security Chiefs in the world. The election is between the 14th and 21st every odd month. The 4 Chiefs of Security with the most votes become a member of the mediators for the next 2 months.
/bann NAME REASON	The player {name} will be put on the town's blacklist by the Chief of Security, with a reason given {grund}, and is no longer allowed to enter the town with immediate effect.
/rebann NAME	The Chief of Security removes a user from the blacklist again.
/resign NAME	The Chief of Security can withdraw citizens' rights. This costs 20 Talers.
/inactiveuser	The mayor and Chief of Security can get a list of all citizens who have not played a single game in the current month.
/donate [multi\|single] TALER	Any town council member can donate some of his personal wealth [single- or multiuser-points] to the town's budget.

Founding a new town

/city NAME,x,y	The user suggests to found a new town with the specified name at the coordinates (x,y) (map in the toolbar)..
/citygo NAME	The user supports the suggestion. There have to be three supporters, and the four users (founder and supporters) together must possess 8000 Taler (which are NOT taken away from them). The town will be founded and the user who suggested the foundation will become first mayor. The town starts with 1660 Taler. The Alderman has to agree the foundation. He uses the same command.

Building

To get into the building mode, you have to click on the yellow button on the left side of the blue navigation arrows. While it is red, you are in building mode.

A little window will open in the upper left corner. The arrow keys (right, left) on your keyboard enable you to select different types of structures.

Most structures are easily built, just click on the desired location (the yellow frame). The same procedure applies when a Landgraf or higher builds his landlord residence on his lot.

To build game houses and/or a manager, you have to write {game}:{buildingname} into the chatline first: (e.g.: Siedler:Gamblinghut ) and then - while this command is still in the chatline - build as usual. To build a landlord garden, simply replace the game name with the user name.

In the window in the upper left corner you see the actual expenses for buildings before they are saved (lower number: private costs; upper number: public costs).

If you place one structure on top of another, overriding the old one, its costs will stay on your bill anyway. But you can always click the (U)ndo button on the right side of the navigation arrows to empty your bill and start from scratch. It is advisable to undo and do a clean rebuild before saving. If everything is fine, click the (S)ave button on the right side of the navigation arrows. For a landlord the building procedure is now completed. However, when a mayor erects public structures, the treasurer will now receive his building suggestion, and he has to accept the suggestion with his own (S)ave button (or keep Ctrl pressed while pressing S on his keyboard if the treasurer has a low rank and no building menu for himself) before it is actually built. If the Treasurer does not agree, the mayor can undo the suggestion by typing 'u' (undo).

The botton left (now red) shows if you are in the building mode or not (yellow).