<lmargin%:5><rmargin%:95><font:Arial Bold:20>Create Team Mode
<font:Arial:14>In this mode, you can manage teams by moving individuals from one team to another.  For example, you may have trained sniper-like behavior in one session but more aggressive following behavior in another.  It is possible for you to combine individuals from both sessions into the same team using this mode.  

The list of saved population files appears at the bottom right. Click on one to bring up its list of brains into the top right window. Click on the unit you want, and press Add Unit. The window on your left is the team you are creating. You can remove a unit from your team by selecting it and pressing Remove Unit. Clone Unit will copy that unit and add it to your team. You can save your new team by pressing Save Team.

You may wonder how the individuals listed in the interface differ from one another.  As a general rule, teams that come straight out of training are ordered from most fit to least fit.  However, note that there is power in diversity: if you only make clones of the top individual, your whole team will act almost identically, which can be a disadvantage.  In addition, when a battle ends, the Organism IDs that are shown in the stat screen are the same IDs that appear in Create Team mode.  Therefore, you may discover from watching several battles that a certain individual is really good.  You can then be sure to include it on a new team.

Another interesting aspect of creating teams in this way is that the teams you create not only can be taken into battle, but also put back into training for even more training. However, note that the effect of taking a heterogeneous team of individuals with different training behaviors and training them all on the same task may result in some convergence; that is, they will eventually start acting similarly.

One final note:  The battle mode automatically spawns a team of the size determined by the properties of the current battle.  If you choose a team that is too small, NERO will cycle through and place clones on the field until the team is big enough.  If your team is too large, only the top n individuals will be placed into battle, where n is the specified team size (between 1 and 20) for the current battle. 
