Appendix 1: BrettspielWelt commands

6. BrettspielWelt player level system
Registered users gain experience by playing games and with experience BSW players rise up in
player levels. The idea of the level system (and registration) is that when you gain experience you
also get new commands you can use and thus enhance your gaming experience in BrettspielWelt.
Some more advanced commands could disturb other players game play or the gaming system and
for that reason they are not available to players that don’t know what to do (and what not) with
them.
BSW level system is modeled after medieval theme from newbie all the way up to the emperor.
Players that play typically multiplayer games are marked with W and there levels are from 0 to 21.
Players that play lot of single user games might be marked with clerical class K. The prerequisite is
that 1/3 of you game experience points come from playing solo games. You can check the English
levels and points you get from each game here:
http://www.brettspielwelt.de/MetaSpiel/Levelsystem/?nation=en
Another handy tool is Player info in Hall of Fame:
http://www.brettspielwelt.de/HallOfFame/SpielerInfo/?nation=en. By typing in your nickname you
see games you have played and Teammates tell with whom you have played.
Every game in BSW has point value that you get after playing one game. Additionally you might
get a 10% bonus by winning the game. Multiuser games give you more points (from 3 to 25) than
single user games (1-2) and the more players there are in the game the more points you will get.
You can check an estimate of your points by using for example the following point checker:
http://www.janbln.de/c32/punkt.php.
7. Communication in BSW
When the amount of played games increases you start to meet familiar players in BSW you like to
play with. Information about whether these persons are around and in general communication with
other players is part gaming in BSW.
With lists you can easily follow whether you friends are playing online. Registered users can use for
example watch lists for this purpose. You add persons to watch list with command /add watch nickname
and after you have typed in your friends one by one save the list with command /save. Now
you will hear and see when your friends arrive to BrettspielWelt or are already there when you log
in.
Different tell commands are a good way to communicate between players. The basic command /tell
nickname text sends the typed text to the named user and leaves a chat window open for continuing
the discussion. Other commands (/ttell, /ctell, /mtell and /shout) can be used to communicate to different
user groups in BrettspielWelt. For example the /ctell command is very useful if you belong to
some town in BSW. Check the use of these commands from the command listing.
Channels are way to communicate to an unknown group of persons that can (based on the channel
name) come to a certain channel. Channels in BSW might belong to certain gamer group, players
from a certain country or of a certain game. Anybody can create new channels freely and join to
them. Command /channel channel_name creates a channel with this name (if it does not exist already)
and opens a chat window for that (e.g. /channel BoardGameGeek). Command /leave channel_name
closes the channel down and you won’t see its messages any more.
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