Storing players' team numbers

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1

I’ve coded some various functions that need to be able to retrieve each player’s team number (such as a custom /players list). I was initially using persistant[PERS_TEAM], but then I realized if a player is spectating someone, it returns that player’s team number instead of their own.

So, the method I’m using right now to store the player’s team number is:

// [ClientUserinfoChanged: 2 n\Test\t\3\model\ranger/pm\hmodel\ranger/pm\c1\4444\c2\5\hc\100\w\0\l\0\rt\3\st\0

else if( strcmp(first,"ClientUserinfoChanged:") == 0 ){
	int x = 1, team = 0;
	for (i=0,cl=svs.clients; i < sv_maxclients->integer; i++,cl++){
		if(!cl->state){ continue; }
		if( i == atoi(second) ) {
			// Retrieve team number
			while( strRemoveAll(line," ") );
			char *pch;
			pch = strtok( line, "\\" );
			while (pch != NULL) {
				if( x == 4 ) {
					team = atoi(pch);
					pch = NULL;
				} else {
					pch = strtok(NULL, "\\");
				}
				x++;
			}
			// If client joined a different team, update team number and timestamp of join
			if( cl->teamNum != team ) {
				cl->teamNum = team;
			}
		}
	}
}

However, I don’t really like this solution and was wondering if there’s a better way. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

2

You can check if spectator’s team was replaced by team of the client they are following.

if (ps->pm_flags & PMF_FOLLOW) {
    team = TEAM_SPECTATOR;
} else {
    team = ps->persistant[PERS_TEAM];
}
3

Perfect! That’s just what I was looking for. Thank you.

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