How do I let players pick between two teams?

Creating a multiplayer game and I want there to be two teams, each side has different weapons/health. What is the best way to let players pick a team?

I'm considering letting there be an option to pick a side as they type in their user on a menu screen. So would I assign the peer a variable based on the side they choose and have the host place them in the correct spawn based on the variable?

Have an instance variable for team and when players attack eachother make sure their teams are different

Have an instance variable for team and when players attack eachother make sure their teams are different

Thanks, it took me awhile but I got it thanks to your advice.

In case anyone else stumbles across this and is curious. I pretty much just set up a local variable called FiringPeerSide similar to FiringPeerID from the Multiplayer example. This was my third parameter for the Function TestHit. As tarik suggested I included an instance variable called 'side'. I also had two global variables Team1 = 0, and Team2 = 1. The host would always be on Team2 and every time a peer connected:

Team1 <= Team2 : Peer - set side to 2. add 1 to Team 1

Else : Peer set side to 1. Add 1 to Team 2

Note: these two events are subevents in the Host group under the 'Multiplayer-On Peer Connected' event from the Multiplayer example.

I think that was it and so far it's gotten me passed the initial issues I was having.

I'm glad you figured it out ! I would've responded with more information, but I was using my tiny cell phone, and I really don't like typing on it.