Cells

Cells are the option team mechanic with most active players joining one. A cell pools its members' held phones for the purpose of cell triangles and cell territory. As of writing there are over one hundred active cells on the game; the live count is on the CELLS tab at payphonetag.com.

Forming a cell

• Any logged-in player can create a cell.
• Each cell has:
  • A 4-character tag (uppercase letters/digits, e.g. WOLF
  • A name (free text)
  • A colour picked from a fixed palette; each colour is unique across all cells, so the palette caps the number of cells visible on the cell-map view.

• Membership is small — currently a max of 12 agents can exists in a cell

Roles

Role	Can do
Handler (creator)	everything: rename, recolour, kick, promote, disband
Runner	kick members
Member	hold phones for the cell, leave at any time

Handlers are succession-aware: if a Handler is purged for inactivity, the longest-tenured Runner (or Member) inherits the Handler role automatically.

Cell scoring

See Game:Scoring#Cell_scoring. In short: cell holdings + cell triangles + cell territory area. A cell triangle counts when all three Delaunay vertices are held by any cell member at the moment of evaluation.

Map view

The CELLS toggle on the map (top-right of https://payphonetag.com) switches between Individual view (everyone's emoji on their captures) and Cells view (cell-coloured rings, territory fills, perimeter borders).

Solo cells

A 1-member cell is "solo" and is excluded from the cell leaderboard and the cells map view. This is to prevent the game from having lots of single agent cells.