-- OurColony.net Rules and Intructions --
Play if you want to learn, learn if you want to win
The Bittorrent Network's Colony Password: 57072048
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What the heck is going on?:
OurColony.net is (supposedly) a marketing-based Alternate Reality Game (ARG) to create awareness and excitement for the release of the next XBOX. There is a clock on the website that is currently counting down to 8:30 PM EST on May 12th. (Rumored Xbox 2 announcement) We have very few concrete details about it's connections to Microsoft or Xbox. Some more information can be found here: GameSpot Article - JoyStiq Article. If something isn't covered here or in those articles, then nobody knows.
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How does it Work?:
-The OurColony.net page has a textbox to begin. Type 'Play' to acess the Lounge area. Type 'Rules' for a set of rules that will be better explained in this FAQ.
Lounge Area Navigation:
Join Existing Colony: This is where you join a colony. You will join The Bittorrent Network (Our tag is: tbn). How to do this will be explained.
Your Colony: Once in our colony, this will access our page.
Form New Colony: Don't do this.
Image Gallery: View other colonies pictures. This will be explained later.
Colony Forum: This will take you to the General Discussion forum. There is nothing really there.
Scoring:
Our Colony score is the sum of the following parts:
Colonists: Each member that joins is worth 10 points.
Challenges: You get 10 points for each challenge solved. Every colony will get the same Challenge and the first to answer correctly gets points.
Contributions: Uploading Challenges or Posters give us an as-of-yet unknown point value.
Bonuses: 10 bonus points are awarded for each new non-US member joining.
Don't scream yet, Challenges, Posters, and Contributions will be explained.
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I Want to Join The Bittorrent Network:
Go to the Join Existing Colony page and enter 57072048. This is our team password. You will then need to register a name, location, etc. After that, you're in.
If you want to get to the registration page right now, directly, follow this link: TeamPass page.
If you have problems, try a different, unique user name. If you keep getting the 'wrong number' error, typing a different user name will usually fix this.
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What to heck do I do?:
There are several things you can do to help the Colony.
Challenges: Think of these as riddles. You can either submit one or help solve a current one. The Colony Canvas is where you submit challenges. Do NOT post the answer to ANY CHALLENGE, even after we have answered it. If it COULD lead to the answer, do not post it. We do not control the Challenges, they appear on our Colony page and are operated by someone we do not know. There is only one at a time and we solve it together. It is usualy a paragraph and a text box under that to input an answer.
Posters: You can upload pictures of our logo onto the site. Print out the attached image and post it around in public. The purpose of this is (supposedly) to spread the colony logo around the world to create awareness. We do not know why. For examples, go to the Image Gallery. This is how we get most of our points. The upload pictures link is no longer on our colony page (hacking, presumably), so we are going to have to wait to see what develops. Do not photoshop our logo onto another image, take a snapshot of a real location with our logo somewhere in it.
Expand the Colony: Get others to join our colony. This also gives us points. Post on forums, get friends to join, etc. Make sure they use our code. There is strength in numbers; the bigger the colony, the better
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