An ant controlling game...

Concepts

Starting to play

The player gets right into it and sees everything except the top. (username, experience level etc)
Show help dialog for map with ability to hide. Maybe a special one?
The top part of the screen is a "register to start to play"-button
The user must enter user name, password and selects faction (password must be remembered in order to use the same account on another phone). He/she may also enter a reset password email.
up and running. view UI Help Dialog on UI Map
The player may have one free color change. The switch will take 24 h and everyone will be notified.

All players can see all items on the map.
Server controls what is on the map (the client shall not assume anything)
On all items there are an "Help" action to display the UI Help Dialog about it.
A new player is immune to attacks for X time after founding his/her first colony.
Notification from server if nearby actions take place, the notifications shall contain enough data to update the info in the client (typically attacks)
The server will hold a table with distance data between nearby colonies, in order to easy calculate if there is competition about the food that stops colonies to grow
If 2 nearby colonies are of different Faction some ant may get killed from time to time