Introduction

Online gaming has evolved significantly since the days of playing doom on a coax LAN with your friends. The Internet has revolutionized the gaming industry! Today's online games are much more than a first-person-shooter, hack-and-slash, virtual deathmatch. Teamwork and strategy has become an integral part of online gaming.

What has been lacking until now is an effective tool to manage today's online teams. Team Commander does away with the confusing meld of instant messaging clients, forums, calendars, and websites.

What is Team Commander

Team Commander is an ALL-IN-ONE team management application for your entire team. It combines the following features into one easy to use interface:

• Instant Messaging
• Team Calendar
• Forums
• Private Team Chat
• News
• Message of the Day
• Member Info
• Team Info
• Shared team files
• 128bit encryption

Before Team Commander, team captains would have to maintain

• ICQ/MSN/Yahoo/Email contact information (and any updates)
• Player's skills and abilities
• Web site for news and events
• Forums for discussion
• Initiate polls to see who is available for a practice or match
• Log onto IRC to have a group chat with their team mates
• Maintain and securly distribute team specific files.

But now, Team Commander lets you do everything in one application, for multiple teams.

Where do I get Team Commander?

Team Commander can be downloaded using the following link:

There is no installation for TeamCommander. Just unzip tcclient.zip to your favorite directory and run the executable when finished.

The First time you run Team Commander you must create a user account by clicking 'New User'. The user name you choose for this account cannot be changed, however it is **NOT** the same as your alias. When you join a team, you will be able to choose an alias for that specific team. The user account name is only used when you log into Team Commander.

I've Logged On, Now What?

The first thing you must do is 'JOIN' or 'CREATE' a team.

• Team Captains: If you are a team captain, then you should CREATE a team for everyone else to join. When you create the team, you will be prompted for these items:
  • Team Name: Enter the name of your team here
  • Join Password: Enter the password that your team mates will use to join the team
  • Your Alias: Enter your alias for the team here
  • Team Short Name: Enter a short name for the team. This is used to switch between teams if you are in multiple teams. Please make this name short...less than 6 chars.
  • Super Admin PW: Enter the password that can be used to grant Super Admin rights.
• Team Members: If you are a team member, then you will need to JOIN a team created by your captain. To do so, click the 'Join Team' button in the 'Team' menu. Then enter:
  • Team Name: Enter the name of your team here (provided by your team captain after they created the team)
  • Join Password: Enter the password that your team captain used when creating the team.
  • Your Alias: Enter your alias for the team here

Tips/How-To

• Access the menues by clicking on the menu titles (Members, Team, News...)
• Use the 'Members' screen to adjust permissions (Member/Admin/Super Admin), view contact info, and set player abilities.
• If you have admin or super admin rights, then you will see '<edit>' on some of the screens. Click there to edit the information, and press <ESC> when done editing.
• The MOTD (Message of the Day) can be edited by clicking on the 'MOTD' tag.
• The 'TC' icon below the 'MOTD' flag is to adjust the Team Commander options. More options are being added here...and some are currently disabled.
• Click the 'Team Commander' logo on the main window to goto the Team Commander web site: www.teamcommander.com
• When you edit a calendar item, you can toggle the 'Yes, No, Maybe' item at the bottom to allow other members to enter a response.
• You can click on items in the '2 Week Outlook' section of the calendar to jump to that item in the calendar.
• When you enter the 'Chat' section, you can start typing immediatly. You do not need to click in the bottom box.
• Click on your user name to adjust your personal settings (name, icq, email...)
• Click on the status image (Connected) in the lower left to set your online status: Online, Away, Busy, Gaming, Disconnect.
• Clicking the _ or the X in the upper right corner of the applicaiton only minimizes it to the system tray. Left click the tray to re-open the applicaiton, or right click to set your online status...or shutdown.
• When a new version is released, you will be notified when Team Commander connects to the server. You will then download tcclient.zip which contains the new version. Simply unzip and overwrite the previous version on my computer.