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Most people just ran around team killing, and I suggest this is because they didn't realize it's a team game at all.

Some suggestions:

* At the beginning of the screen show a message that tells the player 'You are on team RED'

* Add a message for players who are team-killing - like a huge 'TEAMKILL' popping up on their screen.

* Also add a penalty to prevent people from team-killing (like a 10 sec respawn delay)

Fair points. I already started mitigating this by disabling friendly fire for players with -1 score (that is, as soon as a player has team killed once and made no valid kills, they won't be able to teamkill again until they make one legit first).

Instead of hurting players (-20 health) with friendly fire, I thought it would be fun for teamkillers with -1 score to actually give their teammates +1 health by shooting them. I think some players have started using it as a way to have a "healer class", which is kind of a fun emergent behavior.

Oh I see. I was pretty confused why some people wouldn't hurt me with their friendly fire and others would.

It's hard to tell whether the guys shooting at me were really trying to heal me though.

interesting game - tho its very laggy for me, unplayable =(

same here. I'm sure playing from Australia doesn't help, either.

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