Domination Spot
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A domination spot is an area that can be captured. Initially it belongs to no team, its state is neutral. It will show a white flag. All domination spots can be captured by either one team at one time. In some gametypes, like Conquest, domination spots may be locked for a team.
Each domination spot is visualized by its flag. The flag is colored accordingly to the owning team, red or blue. If no team owns the spot, then it is neutral. The color for neutral spots is white.
The following screenshot shows an example for a domination spot. This is the default look and best practice. But it is up to the mapper for each map, and eventually may be different.
Additionally, the broadcast will display a simple text visualization for each spot:
- Opening Parenthesis: Round for neutral, curly for red and square for blue
- Two lines used for the capture animation
- The spot name (single letter, A, B, C, D or E)
- Two more lines
- Closing Parenthesis Each spots text will be colored accordingly, red, blue or white for neutral.
The following screenshot shows all three variants. Spot A belongs to red, spot B is neutral and team red owns C.
IMPORTANT: Broadcast colors are disabled by default. To enable them, open the settings in Teeworlds and enable the checkbox Enable colored server broadcasts..
To capture (or recapture) a domination spot, one team needs the superior amount of tees in its area. Then the capturing progress will begin. While the capturing time goes on, the corresponding team flag will be move onto the neutral flag. Additionally, the broadcast will display a neat animation for the remaining time.
- Capture together: The capturing runs faster, for every additional player of the team in the area.
- Dynamic capturing: The required time to capture (or neutralize) a spot depends the team size. For a single player the required time increases with the team size. But of course the needed time may be reduced by capturing together.
- Handicap: If a team is outnumbered, they will have a little speed bonus while capturing.
- Capturing abandoned: If a capture progress is running but no tees are within the spots area, the capture progress will slowly reverse.
At the beginning of each match, all domination spots are neutral. They belong to no team.
In the broadcast, neutral spots are displayed with round parenthesis '(' and ')'.
If one team is superior in the domination spots area, it will start capturing it. This process will take up a few seconds. Meanwhile, the corresponding team flag will shift above the white flag. In the shown screenshot, red is capturing the spot B.
Meanwhile, the broadcast will display a neat animation.
- For red, the capture state symbol '>' will move from left to right every few seconds past. The opening parenthesis will change from the neutral symbol to the red symbol '{' (curly bracket).
- For blue, the capture state symbol '<' will move from right to left. The closing parenthesis will change from the neutral symbol to the blue symbol '[' (square bracket).
The following picture shows the broadcast animation for neutral to red.
Once the capturing process is completed, the domination spot will remain its state and belong to the team. The flag will be colored accordingly.
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For red, the broadcast will display both parenthesis with curly brackets '{' and '}'. It is colored in red.
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For blue, the broadcast will display both parenthesis with square brackets '[' and ']'. It is colored in blue.
If a domination spot is captured by team and the opponent team is superior in this spot. Then the opponent team will start recapturing (or neutralizing) the spot. The colored flag will shift down, and the white flag gets visible again.
In the following screenshot, blue is capturing the domination spot B, that belongs to the red team.
The broadcast will show the same animation as when capturing, but colored white. The parenthesis will be round '(' or ')'.
In the following picture, team blue is recapturing the red spot B.
