Team

As with most multiplayer games, Air Combat has a guild feature called a Team. You can join a team or create your own. If you are still starting out, however, it is best for you just join one and let the veterans guide you. Being part of a team help you find teammates to play with. Chemistry is a big factor when it comes to team fights. Having a regular set of people to fight battles with will help build that chemistry needed in order to consistently win. You also get a few nifty bonuses along the way.

## What's a Team?

Teams are groups of players that join together in order to compete with other teams during the league season. Members of a Team have a private chat for socializing with each other, and are able to send gift to each other. Within a team there are 4 ranks, member, Sergeant, co-captain, and captain. Including the captain, you can have up to 20 members in a team.

## Join a Team

To be a member of a team you must first upgrade to level 6 to unlock team function. Once your team function has been unlocked, you have the option of joining or creating a team. There are various ways to join a team.

* View a team that has the status 'Anyone Can Join' and tap the 'join' button.
* Send a request to join a team that has the status 'need permission'.
* Go on global chat and watch for people recruiting members to join their team.

☆Note: Some teams have minimum medal requirements to join their team; you cannot join nor send a request to join if you do not meet both the medal requirements. The medal requirements are set by the team captain or co-captain and it can vary from 0 to 100,000.

## Team Function

Teams are an optional feature in Air Combat, but it is strongly recommended that every player should join a team. Collaboration is a very important and helpful aspect of this game. After joining a team, you have multiple choices in the team:

### Team Chat

* Once you join a team, you also get access to its private chat. All recent messages, even those sent before you joined, are seen.
* You can see who edited or configured the team settings.
* You can also see who is being promoted/demoted/kicked and those who have left the team.

### Team Info

* Players could view any team information by tapping on the team icon, and then select view team info to check the details.
* The team info page shows details about the team including team honor points, team rank, team description, team type, the medal requirements and a list of the members.
* For each player it will show if they are a member, sergeant, co-captain or captain, and their honor point.

### Team Gift

* After joining in a team, you can send team gifts to all members. And you can also get a huge reward after purchasing the team gifts.
* The team gift packages can be purchased in the store, and it can be divided into 3 types:

### Team Honor and ranking

* Team Ranking is based on the number of honor point of its members. Team honor is a sum of all of the members' honor point.
* Honor points are earned from the Ranked matches. After shooting down a non-teammate, players get 1 team points no matter win or lose. (Shooting down a teammate from the same team doesn't get any honor point)
* Shooting down the same players only get 10 honor points at most in a day. That's to say, after getting 10 honor points by shooting down the same player, you won't get any more points from him in this day.
* After quitting a team, player's honor point will be reset to 0. So don't quit team randomly.
* After the season ends, the team honor of all teams will be reset. It starts from 0 after the new season begins.
* Top 100 teams that ranked on the leaderboard will be rewarded. The team season rewards will be equally divided and sent to all team members.

### Team Fleet

An elephant walk is a military exercise that involves taxiing entire squadrons of aircraft in close formation as would be necessary in a short-notice wartime situation. The in-game fleet exercise is to serve as a show of force, both individually or formed as a team.

* It can be displayed at most 20 planes for a team (each teammate could select a plane to be shown in team fleet)
* The planes could be selected from Research - Paintings part.
* Team captain leads the team fleet.
* Players could swipe on the screen to view the whole elephant walk from any perspective.

## Create a New Team

In order to create a new team, a player must do the following:

* Create a name for the team (this name can't be changed once the team is created).
* Choose the badge.
* Make a description of your team to let know others what you're all about (optional)!
* Select the team type, i.e. anyone can join, need permission or no one can join.
* Set the amount of medals required to join the team (the field can be left blank, then it will be 0).
* Pay the required 5000 gold.

## Team Management

### Edit the team

* The captain or co-captains of the team may edit the badge, team name, team type, minimum medal requirement and motto of the team.
* The team name can be changed after the team has been created, but it costs a team rename card to do so. Only the team captain and co-captains have the right to change team name.
* All teams have a badge, which is initially designed by the captain when they create the team. The captain can customize the badge using the 80 preset patterns and 13 colors that Air Combat has provided.
* Team setting updates can be seen in the Team Chat, indicating who changed them.

### Team Type

* No-one can join: You are not allowed to join the team at this time.
* Need permission: You can apply to join this team if you meet set requirements, if any. Your message will be displayed in the team application page, at which time a captain or co-captain can accept you into the team or reject you. Members cannot invite or accept/reject pending invites. You may apply to multiple clans at once without cool-down, however you will only join the first clan that accepted your request.
* Anyone Can Join: This is a type of team where anyone can join without consent from team captains or co-captains. However, to join the team, you must still have at least the minimum number of medals that the team requires, if any.

### Team Upgrade

* The default team capacity is 10 members when it's been created. But the team captain and co-captains can cost 200 diamonds to upgrade the team capacity to 20 members, which is the max capacity at the moment.

### Members Roles

* **Captain**: The boss of their team. Has ability to demote themselves and promote another user to captain, but only one captain is allowed at any given time.
* **Co-captain**: Trusted by the team captain. A team can have as many co-captains as the captain wishes, however be wary on who is promoted to this position, as they may kick everyone out of your team and ruin the team.
* **Sergeant**: Title for team members with a higher reputation and level of respect. Given more rights than a member. There can be multiple sergeants.
* **Member**: An ordinary part of the team with no additional rights. You will start as a member in any team, even when re-joining a clan in which you once were a captain, co-captain, or sergeant. There can be multiple members.

## Quit a Team

Players are free to join or quit a team. But note that after quitting a team, his team honor contribution will be reset to 0, and his previous team honor point will also be decreased accordingly. After quitting a team, the players have to wait for 24 hours before he could create or join a new team.