Teams

The Teams service holds a game's Team objects. Team objects must be parented to the Teams service.

Teams offer a range of features that are useful to developers. These can broadly be divided into features that work out-of-the-box and features developers can program into their game.

Built-in team behavior The following functionality of Teams exists by default and does not require the developer to program any custom behavior.

• When part of a Team, the name above a player's character Model will be colored to the Team.TeamColor
• Changing Player.TeamColor will cause Player.Team switch to the Team with the corresponding Team.TeamColor
• When using the default player list users will be grouped and displayed by team
• Setting Player.Neutral to true will cause the Player to be dis-associated with the team, but will not change Player.Team or Player.TeamColor
• When a Player joins a game, they will be allocated to the team with Team.AutoAssignable set to true that has the fewest players. If no auto assignable team is available, Player.Neutral will be set to true
• When SpawnLocation.Neutral is set to false, only players whose Player.TeamColor matches SpawnLocation.TeamColor can spawn on that SpawnLocation
• When SpawnLocation.AllowTeamChangeOnTouch is set to true, a player's Player.TeamColor will change to SpawnLocation.TeamColor when their character touches the SpawnLocation

Optional extended team behavior Many developers chose to add the following features to teams in their own code.

• Implement checks for team in weapon code to prevent team killing
• Implement doors or other features that only certain teams can use
• Periodically reassign teams to maintain team balance