Colony

The ant colony means the ants living together but here the word colony is normally also used to refer to the physical nest built underground too.

See also: Nest

See also: UI Colony View

Properties

The colony has (all as float numbers):

• Size (the number of ants living there)

Inherited from the nest:

• Capacity (max ants and max food)
  • Experienced playes may build secret chambers too. (Can not be destroyed by players themselves, only by ants)
• Food (how much food is stored)

Founding

A players builds the physical colony. It may only be built on what Reversed Geocoding (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/intro#ReverseGeocoding) says is withing a country and most likely also more specified parts. This location info is stored with the colony data and is used for scoring lists.

Every minute

• If colony has set its property to expand the nests capacity expands.
• If colony has set its property to breed the nests size expands but no more than the capacity.
• If colony has set its property to get food the food is added (if there is food available) but no more than the capacity.
• If the number of ants in the colony is bigger than the nest capacity limit, the number of ant is slowly decreased
• The ants in the colony eat and food is decreased by the number of ants
• If there is no food in the nest the number of ants in the colony is decreased
• Sometimes cave in-s and other accidents occur (decreasing capacity and killing ants)