The Colonies Portal

General info/History:
The Colonies (TC) – is originally a PA clone, which was created by Beachy during the time Plantarion went p2p, around year 2000. The change brought many new players to our game, and at it's peak there were around 1.500-2.000 active players. However like with all web/tick-based games our numbers have shrunk, and we're now down to a playerbase of roughly 100.

During the early days there was lots of innovative development by Beachy with many influences driven by the playerbase. The downside if a fast progress however also brought with it a fair amount of bugs, which affected to the size of playerbase negatively. Once bugs were fixed the game ran stable for a long time, and with efforts from Adjuh, who took over the coding, the game built a solid, closely knit group of players around it, and it was one of best featured games out there. It still beats others in the genre even though the development stopped for quite some time, until recently when the game got a new surge of life with active admins and coders, who are here to bring the game forward again.

The last round was mostly a learning curve for the new admins, but during the round a lot of work has been put into making round 18 the technically best so far, with bugfixes, requested changes, new features and so on.

 Signups are open NOW.

• Groups are set to 5.
• Planets are set to 7.
• Ticks will start September 12th at 16:00.
• Tick speed is set to 1 hour.
• Round length set to 750 ticks.
• Round will end October 13th at 21:00. (It ticks for the last time at 21:00)
• Game login at http://game.thecolonies.net.
• Game channel is as usual #colonies on irc.dark-storm.net.

Now these tools were made public during round 17 but it never got announced here on the portal, so now it's time for that! DeCept statistics page was written by me to get a public tool for everyone to check what's happening in the game without the need to log-in. Now ofcourse this doesn't mean that you know if you got incoming but it's a nice way to see what has happend during the tickchange.

There are some general statistics on the top of the page followed by individual player statistics. Here you can see the ranking, score, scorechange, population and change in population. Same goes for planets (galaxies) and alliances. As atm we only have one galaxy this ain't shown :] Now if you have something that you would like to see on these statistics pages, feel free to PM me in irc or send me an mail on the fourm. 

DeCept Statistics Page