Appendix 1: BrettspielWelt commands

5.1. If player drops off the game
Because gaming in BrettspielWelt happens using computers many computer or communication related
errors may happen and stop your game play. You see quite sometimes situations where players’
computer does not display the game correctly or the connection to game server breaks. Here are
some tips to these situations.
Game does not respond
There might be lag in communication with communication to server or server might be overloaded.
Type a short test message like “test” or “..” to command line and see what happens. If the server or
client does not respond by showing your test message in the message area wait for a second. If
nothing happens in a long time (let’s say a minute) proceed to next step.
I have problems in my game play
Send a message to other players (if possible) that your having problems in game play e.g. ”Problem
with computer”. Take a note about some person that was in the same game room as you. Go out
from the game into Game Manager window or to some other window. Try to reload the game by
using /ghook command with the player name that was in the same room where game is running
(e.g. JoeLamer). If this does not help close your browser or BSW client program, log in and retry
with /ghook command. If game loads now properly or the broken connection to server is up try to
sit back to your previous game seat by giving command /join with your position in the game. If you
were sitting in the 3rd place in the game, give command /join 3. Other players accept your request
to get back with /accept command. Remember to thank everybody from their patience.
We lost a player from your game
In the beginning you should wait for a little while so that the missing player has time to do everything
that was mentioned above. If the same player returns you can accept him/her in with /accept
command. It the player does not return and you play a long game where just giving up would annoying
you can invite a new player in with /gameyell command (e.g. /gameyell Replacement
needed!). New player can join the game play with the above /join x - /accept procedure. Players that
are stucked in the game can be removed from game with /remove command so that they or others
can join in as again.
Game has to be restarted
If you want to reset a running game (somebody was lost from the game or you started just before
somebody had time to get in) you can do this with /masterreset. For that command your player level
must be 5. or above and other players must accept the reset with /accept command.
Server restart
As part of system maintenance BSW game servers are rebooted every now and then. If you get a
message about server restart, agree with you fellow players, whether you stop the game there or
come back after restart by rejoining your old positions in the game.
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