Catan Online World - City Expansions - Town Hall

The Town HallImportant Functions: Selection of Expansions, Gold Distribution, Information About the Cities

The Town Hall is the political center of each city. It is the place where City Council members and Mayor hold their meetings and citizens can view important communications and reports.

Lobby

When visiting the Town Hall as a normal citizen, you arrive at the lobby. If you click on the public announcement, you can view important information about the cities and your fellow citizens (most lists can be sorted by clicking on the name of a column).

 

1. Information About the Cities

Position Name Mayor Inhabitants Citizens Active Houses Danger Culture: Buildings Culture: Garden Culture: Statues Building Object Donations Needed

 

Position Ranking of the cities as a function of the chosen sorting
Name Name of the city
Mayor Name of the Mayor
Inhabitants All inhabitants of the city
Citizens Inhabitants of the city with Premium-Account
Active The Active Citizens factor of a city (see Life in the Catan Online World)
Houses Number of residential houses in the city
Danger Danger value (see Barbarian Attack)
Culture: Buildings Sum of culture points for all buildings of the city
Culture: Houses Sum of culture points generated by the houses of the Active Citizens
Culture: Garden Sum of culture points generated by plants, trees, garden objects, and pets of the Active Citizens
Culture: Clothing Sum of culture points generated by the clothing of the Active Citizens
Building Object Current building project of the city
Donations needed Donations the city needed to finish its current building project

 

Click on the name of the city to access its City Buildings Overview. This overview lists the current level of all city buildings.

 

Building Current Level Donations

 

Building Name of the building
Current Level Expansion level of the building
Donations Donations made to date
Production

If the building is producing gold or donations for the city, the sum is shown here. In case of the town hall the value is the sum of the gold production and the gold the city won through tournaments.

 

2. City Titles (see City Titles)

Position Name Contender for Title "Capital" Champions Riddle Game Defender Hero Strength Dice Game

 

Position Ranking of the cities as a function of the chosen sorting method
Name Name of the city
Contender for Title "Capital"
Champions
Riddle Game Current rank of the city, in this discipline
Defender
Dice Game
Hero Strength Strength of the hero after the 3rd barbarian attack (see Capture of a Barbarian Stronghold); until this moment, its strength is 0.

 

3. Citizen List

Position Name Premium Possible Title Title City Council Member Resident of Donations for City Expansion Donations to the City Guard Culture Value

 

Position Ranking of the citizens as a function of the chosen sorting method
Name Name of the citizen
Premium Premium member (yes/no)
Possible Title Possible Title based on ranking in the Citizen List in the current game periodTitle based on ranking in the Citizen List of the last game period (see Citizen List)
Title Title based on ranking in the Citizen List of the last game period (see Citizen List)
City Council Member No/"Active Citizen"/City Council member/Mayor
Resident of Name of city of residence
Donations for City Expansion Number of active donations for city expansion
Donations to the City Guard Number of active donations to the City Guard
Citizen Value Current citizen value

 

4. Contribution to Culture

Position Name Active Relevant Income Culture: Garden Culture: House Culture: Clothing Contribution to Culture

 

Position Ranking of the citizens as a function of the chosen sorting method
Name Name of the citizen
Active Is this a citizen having the status of "Active Citizen"?
Relevant Income

The number of resources gathered in the last 4 weeks, which are relevant for the status "Acitve Citizen". The daily resources

and weekly bonus resources are counting to this value. (no Gold)

Culture: Garden
Culture: House The personal culture points of a citizen in this area. (Culture: Garden also contains potential culture points for a pet)
Culture: Clothing
Contribution to Culture Sum of personal culture values divided by the "Active Citizens factor." This is what the citizen contributes to the city's culture value.

 

5. Citizen Titles (see Individual Titles)

Position Name City Garden Master Champion Riddle Master Citizen Value Dice Master Hero

 

Position Ranking of the citizens as a function of the chosen sorting method
Name Name of the citizen
Garden Master
Champion
Riddle Master Name of the citizen
Citizen Value
Dice Master
Hero

 

Important: This chart provides a quick overview of the competition in your own city. However, the ranks for the individual titles are sorted by absolute value only. In case of a tie, various tie breakers (mostly the total time of the players' COW Premium membership) may take effect; the tie breakers are not displayed here. If you want to know your actual rank in this case, you can view it in the chart "Player Titles" in the Hostel / your own house.

 

6. Relocations

Date Name City of Origin

 

Date Date of the action
Name Name of the citizen
City of Origin City from which the citizen relocated to the current city; if this column is empty, the citizen is a new arrival

 

7. Departures

Date Name Relocation City

 

Date Date of the action
Name Name of the citizen
Relocation City City to which the citizen has moved; if this field is empty, the player either canceled his/he account, or it was downgraded to a Free Account and his/her house was removed

 

8. Gold Distribution

Date Name Gold Comment

 

Date Date of the action
Name Name of the citizen
Gold Number of gold distributed to the citizen on this date
Comment Any commnet of the Mayor (20 characters maximum)

 

9. News from the Mayor (Bulletin Board)

Date Content

 

Date Date of the action
Content Message text

 

10. Barbarian Threat

Status Days Danger Culture Value Protection Value

 

Status Reference to the barbarians' distance
Days Number of days the barbarians need to reach Catan
Danger Describes the security situation in relation to the ranking in the security chart and, thus, the expected effects caused by the barbarians (may constantly change!!)
Culture Value Sum of the city's culture points
Protection Value Protection value of the city (see Barbarian Attack)

 

Council Room

Only City Council members or Mayors have access to the main room of the Town Hall, the Council Room. In the Council Room, important decisions are made which have impact on the fate of the city.

1. City Information

Here, the City Council members and the Mayor can access the information that is also available in the lobby.

2. Choosing the City Expansion

The Mayor and the City Council decide which building to expand. Unless a vote is currently in progress, the Mayor may initiate one at any time. After completion of the current expansion at the latest, a vote is started automatically.

During voting, the current building project is continued. If it is finished before voting has concluded, the building with the currently lowest expansion level is the next one to be expanded. If various buildings are on the same expansion level, the building with the most donations so far will be continued. Should various buildings tie for the most donations, expansion will follow a default order.

The order is:
Town Hall, Arsenal, Bank, Church, Bathhouse, Assembly Hall, Market Square, City Wall, Library, Park.

After voting has concluded, expansion of the chosen building project continues. If the Mayor initiates a vote, votes must be cast within one week. Voting concludes

a) after all votes have been cast, or

b) after 15 City Council members and the Mayor have cast their vote, or

c) after a majority of 8 City Council members have cast their votes for a certain building project, or

d) after one week.

If nobody casts a vote, voting is concluded after one week and the building project continues normally. Voting also ends after one week (around 12 noon CET of the 7th day) if not all eligible voters have cast their votes. In this case, only the votes cast are counted.

3. Distribution of the City's Gold

This function is only available to the Mayor. Using a list of inhabitants, he/she can selectively distribute the city's gold among certain citizens of the city. He/she can also add one comment per transfer (20 characters maximum). This comment is shown in the Gold Distribution chart (e.g. "tournament victory").

What the gold is used for is up to the Mayor. For example, it can be used to support citizens in need, or for city tournaments.

The amount of gold received each week by the Mayor depends on the expansion level of the Town Hall.

 

Level Production Culture Points
1 12 gold per week for distribution by the Mayor -
2 24 gold per week for distribution by the Mayor + 12.5
3 36 gold per week for distribution by the Mayor + 12.5

 

Important: To avoid nepotism, the gold distribution is made public via announcement in the lobby of the Town Hall. Therefore, the Mayor should deliberate well how to invest the city’s gold.

4. Sending Announcements

The Mayor can send important information to the citizens of the city (for example, an alert regarding the barbarians or the announcement of a city tournament) by using the normal Message-Tool in the upper Button-Bar. For the Mayor this tool has extended options.

The Mayor can decide which user groups he/she wants to send a message to:

  1. All Premium users
  2. All citizens of the city
  3. The City Council members

In addition, the Mayor can flag the message to indicate if it should also be posted on the bulletin board (default: no) and if it should be sent to users with a certain language option (de, en, both). All messages may have a length of 1,000 characters maximum.

Last Updated on Friday, 02 July 2010 12:44