Does anyone actually know the original start date? Or even around when the first reset was? I haven't been able to find it. The furthest I can find talk of is spring/summer of '98 but the game was already going fairly strong by then so I'm not sure.

1987, mehul played with himself on his commodore

1987 Space Empire Elite v1.010 A multi-player strategy game that was written by Jon Radoff in 1987 for Atari ST BBSes
1990 Solar Realms Elite v0.994 Written by Amit Patel in 1990 for Atari ST BBSes (started out as a clone of Jon Radoff’s SEE)
1991 Planetary Conquest v1.200 Planetary Conquest was written by Amit Patel in 1991
1991 Alpha Colony VI v0.943 Similar game to Solar Realms Elite called Alpha Colony VI by Mehul Patel
1992 Barren Realms Elite v0.988 Based on Amit Patel's own Solar Realms Elite
1993 Falcon's Eye v1.060 Falcon's Eye is the ultimate in mythical strategy war-gaming
1994 The Royal Conquests BETA-2 The Royal Conquests was written by Mehul Patel in 1994
1994 Falcon's Honor v1.120 Falcon's Honor is set in a fantasy world in medieval times.
1995 The Arcadian Legends v1.030 Strategy war game written by Mehul Patel
1996 Earth: 2025 Solaria Games A New online game, Earth: 2025 Started by Mehul Patel
1997 Earth: 2025 Solaria Games Site renamed "Solaria Central Plaza"
1998 Earth: 2025 Solaria Interactive Solaria began offering free forums and guestbooks
1998 Utopia's First Beta Solaria Interactive Utopia was relatively small but rapidly growing
1998 Utopia's Long Beta Solaria Interactive There were many obvious multis
1998 Utopia's Short Beta Solaria Interactive This beta was quite short


http://thedragonportal.eu/History.html

yay, nice list there Tigress!

whoa...is this the same Tigress from the beginning days of Poetic Justice?

yes, in good and bad (mostly latter).

Ah i didn't know some of that; we should integrate that into the wiki somewher

Hi Downsay *waves* yes it's me :p and I honestly dunno what Marshall means

/me adjusts halo

what about the time the tourney server crashed due to lack of ram:P

that 96 I was thinking it was even earlier?