•                        What is Team Factor Mod ?
               In a team each member has a independent "Team Soul". This team soul is actually  your  current health. When the game starts each team member has maximum Team soul which can be defined in FirePlus program menu. Let's say it is 100. All the team members has 100 Team Soul (health) at the beginning.When you frag  an enemy your team soul increases by the value which you defined in the FirePlus program menu. In this case it is 10. Well, you frag an enemy then your team soul (health) becomes 110 but it will be avaiable at your next spawn. While your team soul increases 10 hit point, the team soul of the  enemy that you killed decreases 10 as well. That means he/she will spawn with -10 less health. When a team member reaches to zero he/she will be removed (exhausted) from the game and he/she will become a spectator. This is very bad for a team to lose a team member. On the other hand more frags you have  makes you ( and your team) more invincible because your "team soul" increases. The game finishes when all the members of one team totally exhausted. Let's read this scenario to understand the mod more clearly:
       For instance the server set maximum "team soul" to 200, soul increase value to 10, soul decrease value to 20. Blue and Red teams have 3 members each. The leader of the red team is very good player while the others are average. As the game starts he frags one of the blue. Blue respawns but he sees that his team soul( health ) reduced to 80 because the soul decrease value is 20.The red ream leader sees no change in his "team soul" status because the changes take effect when he spawns again.Ok, then he kills one more blue enemy. two of blue team members have now 80 team soul (health) each. And the red team leader has 120 team soul because the soul  increase value is 10 and he has 2 frags. Then suddenly one of the blue killers shot the red team leader. The red team leader spawns with 100 health. Why ? Because he had 120 team soul and he was killed by an enemy. If not so his health would reduce to 80 as the others. Now one the blue has 110 team soul and the other two have 80 each. All of  the red team members have 100 team soul. Well it seems blue is the more fragable than the red isnt it so ? Think that one of the blue will be killed 4 times and he reached zero. That means blue left only two, this almost means the blue lost the game. But who knows ?
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                                   Basics of the mod
        As you see this is a very challening mod. When you
    activate the mod as a default ( and  logically) all the health and armor are banned. You see just the ammo in the game.
    But if you want, of course, you can override these settings from the FirePlus program menu. Since this is not just an attack and frag type mod (because the team soul is very  important) you must develop some kind of strategy for your team in order not to decrease your members' team soul below the danger limit. Once team souls of the majority goes below 50 in a team it is a good strategy that , one of the members will become victim for others.
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                                  One for All strategy
    Think that a team of four in a team deathmatch or
    CTF (team factor supports all). 3 of  the members of the
     team  have only 50 team soul (health) while the only one has 100. In this case suppose that ( probably it is) the enemy team has more team soul value in total. Can you format a better team out of these four ? 
    Of course yes !
    First take your team a secure place. Then the one who has 100 team soul will sacrifice himself for the rest of the team.
    The others in turn, will kill their friends. In each kill the member who fragged has +10 more team soul. The sacrified one can be fragged 5 times. And he will be deliver total 50 team soul before he was exhausted.This means two of the rest become 70 and the other becomes 60 in health.
     Well i think this is better.
      In a larger teams the poor players can sacrifice themselves  for the good players in their team when the critical time comes.
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                               This is time for strategy
    Team Factor can be played as a team deathmatch, CTF or tournament. Since it is powered by FirePlus weapon modifier for Quake3 arena you can make new weapon arrangements, modifications, banning options and 
    so on.
    This is all for your TEAM SOUL.

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