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The Short Version

Team Commander is a FREE application designed to help manage all aspects of an online gaming team (clan, guild, tribe, squad…any type of gaming team).

The Longer Version

Team Commander is an all in one game team management interface. It combines all the common team functions into one easy to use interface:

• Instant Messaging
• News
• Message of the Day
• Forums
• Team Calendar
• Team Chat
• Shared Team Files
• Game Follow Links

Before Team Commander, teams had to create and manage web sites, IRC servers, and distribute ICQ #'s and email addresses. But now, Team Commander does everything you need, over a secure connection, and for up to 8 teams.

Instant messaging is just a small part of what Team Commander provides. The makers of Team Commander have run several online gaming teams, and the tools they used have all been integrated into this application.

If you have ever run a clan or guild, you know the difficulties in:

• Keeping track of and distributing everyone's contact information (email, icq,...)
• Letting everyone know when practices and matches are scheduled
• setting up a website for news, forums, and files
• securing an IRC channel for private team chat

...and still trying to find time to actually play and enjoy the game.

Team Commander is designed to alleviate most of the work involved in running an online gaming team. With Team Commander, the leader creates a team, and the members join:

• Members update their own contact info, and can view the contact info of other team mates (so no more contact info managing and distribution)
• Integrated team calendar lets leaders schedule events, and members can indicate weather or not they can attend
• Integrated private chat allows for group discussions
• Team files are uploaded and instantly available to all members
• Members can discuss their own topics by posting in the forums
• Leaders can create game follow links, so everyone can join a server with a single click

Other instant messaging programs work well for people that like to play by themselves, or with just a couple of friends. But, if you are in an online gaming team (clan, guild, tribe, squad…) then Team Commander is the best solution. 

Our philosophy is: Less time managing, more time gaming!

Q: Are you managing an online gaming team?

Q: Are you using Notepad or Excel to keep track of ICQ #'s and email addresses while thinking, "there must be a better way"?

Q: Are you tired of trying to keep everyone up to date? When the next match is? Need to know who can/cannot make practice?

Q: Are you in multiple online gaming teams and have problems keeping track of all the practices, matches, and meetings?

A: Team Commander combines everything into a single interface, and keeps track of everything, for up to 8 teams!

Q: But I have a website, and an IRC channel...and...and...

A: And If what you have works for you, then we are glad you have been able to make it work. Just keep in mind that having a web site can draw some attention to your team, but wouldn't you prefer to have your web master spend more time in the game? After all, it's your in game performance that really impresses people.

Use the console below for context sensitive information. Clicking on a section below will navigate you to more information about that item.

UserName / Options

Displays and allows you to edit your information. The only information required is your email address. This is needed in the event your password is lost and needs to be reset. Without this information, a Team Commander administrator cannot email you your password.

Minimize

Clicking this button will minimize the Team Commander console. This will not close the console. Once minimized, the program icon will not appear in the task bar. Double clicking the system tray icon will maximize the Team Commander console.

Tip: right clicking on the tray icon will allow you to set your status and close "shutdown" the Team Commander console.

Click the Add button to create a new note or event. Choosing event will display the following window:

For each event, you can define as much or as little information about that event as you want. You can simply set a meeting, or define a match to include capturing attendance and notes about how your team did.

After clicking "Add", choosing note will display the following window:

A note is a calendar item that allows free-form text to be entered. You can only specify the day a note occurs, not the time.

After a note or event has been added, you can perform the following while viewing them

• Click the Delete button to delete the currently displayed event.
• Click the Add button to add another event or note to that day.
• Click the edit button to edit the currently displayed event or note
• If there is more than one event or note for that day, use the "<" and ">" arrows to cycle through the items for that day.

If the Admin who created the note/event requested a response from the members who viewed it, this view would appear. Members can select Yes, No, or Maybe from the bottom of the Calendar tab, and their response would appear in this view.

For example, the Admin could create an event for a match, and request a Yes/No response. Each member can then select Yes/No in this view to indicate if they can attend the match.

Team functions are available from the team menu.

Customizable game links are displayed here. Admins can create links to practice or match servers, allowing all members to join the server through the click of a button.

Tip: Right clicking these links allow you to configure the game link for your specific machine.

Admins have additional functions:

The member list displays all the members in your active team. To find out more information about that member, highlight their name in the member list, and then select the "Member" content button on the left. This will display the following window for that member:

Each member is able to choose their own alias for each team they join. They can also change their alias by clicking on their alias in the member tab.

Each member manages their own contact information. This way, once you join a team, everyone knows how to contact everyone else. The information you entered when you created your user account (email, icq, aol,...) is displayed here, with the exception of your real name. Your name is never displayed to anyone.

This section allows Admins to assign skills or attributes to members. These attributes are customizable by the admins to fit your game or team. Clicking the "Skills:" title will display the following window:

This is where you assign skills to the players selected. To edit the list of skills available, click the "<edit>" title on the left to access the following window:

Adding skills here will make them available to be assigned to any member of the team.

Admins have an <edit> button on the right side of the screen that allows them to create/edit/delete member skills. Admins can click the Skills label to assign skills to the currently selected member.

Super Admins have a <kick> button on the right side of the screen that allows them to remove members from the team.

This section shows the file name, size, and date of each team file. When the mouse hovers over a file name, a popup appears showing the file description.

Note: To copy text from the team chat window, highlight it with the mouse, and press CTRL + C.

This pane shows the Message of the Day for your team. It also periodically scrolls through the 2 week outlook, and any system/team messages that you may have.

Admins have the ability to edit the message of the day using the Team Menu button.

Clicking the will display the above team menu.

This menu will allow you to perform the following:

Once you have joined/created a team, the team's short name will appear in a button along the right side of the console. You will have one button for each team you have joined/created.

The active team is the team being displayed in the console. If you have only joined/created one team, then you will one team listed along the right side of the console. Switching active teams allows you to participate in all the console's function for each team independently.

Note: You must belong to at least one team in order to utilize the functionality of Team Commander. The team "Team Commander" has been setup as a public team for anyone to join.

The status icons are used to display a members current status.

Your status is displayed in the lower left of the console. This status only applies to the active team. If you belong to more than one team, you set your status in each of your teams.

The status' available are:

Indicates that the console is initiating a connection to the Team Commander server.

Indicates that the console is refreshing and synchronizing data with the Team Commander server.

Tells members that you are online and available in the Team Commander console.

Tells members that you are away gaming.

Tells members that you are on our computer, but are occupied with something else

Tells members that you are away from your computer and they should not expect you to be on your computer.

Other Members status' are displayed to the left of their user name. The status' are:

The member is offline and not connected to the Team Commander server

The member is online and available.

The member is away gaming while in the console.

The member is on the computer, but occupied with something else.

The member is away from the computer while logged into the console.

The member has sent you a message. Clicking this icon will open the message. The member's status will flash with this icon

The system messages button will flash when a new system message is available. System messages are messages sent to uses from the Team Commander administrators. They will have important information about Team Commander and should be read promptly.

Once the system message is read, the system messages button will no longer flash, but clicking the button will display the most recent system message. If the button is grayed out, then no system messages are available at that time.

• Team Commander console build information
• Font Configuration - Allows you to set the default font and scale.
• Custom Colors - Allows you to change the color scheme for most text and backgrounds

• Select the item from the left, and then set the color on the right. Click "Color..." will display the windows color palette to select your color.
• The "Load..." and "Save..." buttons allow you to export and import color schemes.
• Main Window Configuration
  • Logo Alpha Blend - Set the transparency of the team banner. A setting of "0" will completely hide the banner, while a setting of "100" will display the banner fully.
  • Member List Scroll Bar - allows you to set the placement of the member list scroll bar. This is done to move the scroll bar out of the way of the logo banner.
  • Content Buttons - you can set to have the content buttons (News, Forum, Calendar, ...) display with only text, icons, or both.
• MOTD Height - Allows you to set how large the MOTD is displayed. The value is in pixels.
• Automatically Opens Instant Messages - When a member messages you, the message window will automatically open if checked.
• Sort Members - you have options for sort member alphabetically, by online status, by both, or by neither.
• Disable Sound - self explanatory
• Chat Sound Alerts - choose to enable/disable the chat alert sounds.