The Community

At the beginning George and I said that we would focus on our different parts, one being the community(nick) and the other being the ai(George). For the community we have decide on changing out layout of our website. Instead of going the scifi way:

we decide to do more of a nature route:

The reason behind this is, with the topic of ai, the ai always betrays it "master" or humanity. We dont want people coming into this community/ colony thinking these thought. With nature such as crops, you need to take care of it inorder to expect anything in return, just like our colony, you need to take care of it inorder to insure it safety to itself and all its people. As an added bonus we decided, depending on the mood of Gaia the background image of the website will become more cloudy and dead if Gaia is not being taken care of, and more life like if Gaia is being taken care of.

A new feature we have added is the "steal" function. In which the user and event ai can steal from the main pot of the community. You can upgrade ur thief skill but it will not go more then 50%. Every time you try and steal from the pot, your krama will go down and there is no granteet that you will get the money. With this element the users are more exposed to go against the colony, which is what we want, we want to give the users all these options and see what they will do within the community.

You are able to message any user you want in the colony, but the amount of user you can message a day depends on your broadcast level (which can be upgraded). The users have to pick certain words from drop down boxes as there message (we are not allowing them to say what ever they want). some items will be "try and steal", "help me out", "please donate", and so on.

A colony upgrade page has now been added as well, that way the users can upgrade the colony health / health regn, donate to the colony and so on.
cron jobs are working, now your health and credits will update everyday and events will be created every day as well.

A lot has been added to the community side of the project, and many things has changed since the presentation date. Events now have meaning to them that deal with the users. such as, your crop are in trouble, please donate a certain amount of money to fix the damage. Or weather forecast has stated that there is a level 5 lightning storm heading to the colony,  we (as the community) should prepare for this, please donate to the colony pot. A total of 1000 credits is need to prepare. With a little more meaning in the events the users will give more freed back and stay with the community.
Instead of adding a donate button, we allow the user to either donate all the money need for the cause (say the colony needs 1000 credits, the user can donate 1000 credits) or they can donate a certain amount of credits towards the cause. This is helpful because now the user can donate as many times as they want.
It also was brought to our attention that we should have at the starting page, what our project is about. This will be done.
We bought a domain name and we are located at "http://theconolyproject.com/" but it is not up and running yet, i will post when it is up.

I will keep post our progress on when our objectives are done.