It's been nine days since NextColony first saw the light of day. So we are still in our infancy and it is certainly too early to draw a conclusion. Nevertheless I would like to share some statistics from the first 9 days with you, which I find very interesting:
User Development
So far, 1809 users have embarked on the journey from Earth to Planet Alpha. This is quite honestly much more than we had hoped and we can only say "Thank you" for your trust. The first user outside of the official team who signed up for the game was by the way 
How sticky are users?
Out of the 1809 users, 210 have only played for one day. The remainder however, tends to be very sticky. 504 users have played in at least 8 of the last 9 days, and 923 users have played every day in the last 3 days. So it turns out that users are quite sticky and come back every day to play.
Transaction development
So far, users have sent 161393 transactions to the blockchain. Thank God the Steem Blockchain is so fast and powerful, otherwise such usage figures would be unthinkable. Each user has on average chiselled 89 transactions into the chain, i.e. almost 10 per day. The number of transactions has decreased slightly in the last few days - but this is primarily due to the increasingly longer times for upgrades and enhancements.
Transaction types
As the game begins with the exploitation of your own skills and buildings, it should come as no surprise that most transactions involve the improvement of skills and buildings. 54% of all transactions concerned the improvement of skills, a further 44% the development of buildings such as mines or depots. 1% were new user registrations and the remainder is divided among various transaction types. Items from the shop were also activated over 1200 times and a total of 182 items were given away to other users.
Which skills were primarily developed?
53.2% of skill enhancements concerned the development of skills for the mines. Interestingly, the mines were developed relatively evenly. There is only a small preference for the coal mine (13.8% of all skill transactions), flown from the ore mine (13.4%) and the uranium mine. On average, all users are currently upgrading their mine skills to about level 6-7. Depots, on the other hand, are only developed at levels 3-4.
The skills for the development of ships, on the other hand, show a much stronger spread. On the one hand, more than 20 users have reached Explorer Skill Level 20, which is necessary to build an Explorer. On the other hand, many users have not yet really started these resources intensive skills but are concentrating on the development of the mines for the time being.
What is the state of exploration
We know that it is a cumbersome process to develop the skills necessary to build your first space ship. However, as of today 14 users have reached the Explorer Skill Level 20. So far, 30 ships have been built or are in the ship yard right now. 37 explore missions were concluded and 1 planet has been found by 
Whats next?
Exploration numbers will most likely sky rocket in the next days as more users acquire the necessary skill and users will be able to do more than one mission at a time after increasing their missioncontrol skill. Afterwards, the next big step forward will be battles, which as of today are scheduled to be relaesed on June 8th 2019.
I want to thank you all again for the great support and we hope to pay you back with an ever increasing gaming pleasure!
All the best,
Tim