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I thought I saw someone speaking about a later meetup of players, which was why I made this generally about it rather than just the one I had details on I don’t think many people keep the same email addresses for 30 years. Probably not even for 10 years? I still have the one I used back when the game was in Alpha. You should see the amount of junk mail I get per day 😊 I have some player email lists from 1997. I have been thinking about using it to send something out about this forum but I’m hesitant (data protection wasn’t a thing many thought of back then)

I just posted, as a seperate thread, information and images from the first Subpace convention in 1997 - Enjoy

IRL Convention 01 – October 1997 San Diego California I originally posted a news story about this convention on a news website called Subscene in 1997 (my player name was Warhammer back then). I think maybe I ran that website, but honestly it has been so long I cant recall the details. I had the intention of copying the story text and pasting it in here like a normal post, but the original story has some images posted with related text next to them making that difficult to pull off recreating it here I decided instead to just post images of the original story as it appeared on the website when it was published. Sorry for the inaccessibility but I think this is the better choice I’m also sorry for putting you through the way I wrote back then, I was young and thought it was cool at the time 😅

I found info from the first ever Subspace convention on an old hard drive a few years back and I thought I would post details of it to the community. If you have information on any other past IRL conventions, please feel free to create a post below this and put in any detail you may have

Looks like the tile set I made way back. But mine was then further edited by others and used in other maps, so might be a hybrid We had a website that ran up to 1998 called Map Makers Guild. It was basically a bunch of us that wanted to get our maps used on the official servers. I think everyone from that group got at least one map up at some point? Arctos had the most success, Romulans (which you see posted above) had a map. I didn’t fair so well as although I got the first ever fan-made map to be used (as far as I know). There was a place people could glitch drop the eggs so other players couldn’t get them and unfortunately that map only lasted one evening of play. Arctos was just in a league above everyone else in his tile design

Hi Sorry for the late reply. Out of the blue the forum emailed me this morning and asked why I hadn’t posted anything since 2012 😊 Yes, I remember you. I think you and I were both going off to uni around the time we lost touch? Hello everyone else that posted a reply too. I don’t even remember posting the original message for this here 😊 I did find those convention pictures (about 5yrs later) on an unused hard drive, but then couldn’t remember where and who I had mentioned sharing them with 😅 I dont know what happened to Vipyr. Im terrible for keeping in touch with people from back then (i blame ICQ) Attached image is the Hooters party in San Diego October 1997. The SS development team paid the bill for all of us as I recall

Sorry, no I didnt mean it to sound like that. Just trying to list some things that might jog peoples memories I think I might still have the web files for the first convention. If I can dig it up I will try to put it up on the web somewhere so you can have a look see. I think there was a second convention the next year in Miami, but I didnt go to that one. Ill try some of the other forums as suggested, many thanks

No, oh thats a shame. Was anyone who posts on here even in the Beta?

I played as Warhammer in the original Beta and subsequent retail product. I created the squad Time Bandits, which eventually spawned Striker and then went on to create Gemini. Eventually I joined Reds as probably one of the least skilled pilots in there I attended the SubSpace convention in San Diego just after the retail launch. I worked on the first subspace fanzine co-producing a report of the first subspace convention. I was the first person to have a player made map put up on the official servers and then quickly brought down again when people found a mistake in it where flags could get trapped, ops. I helped form the Map Making Guild which was the first organisation in to making player made maps and publishing guides for others to do the same. Haven’t played in years, just thought I would look up if anyone even still plays this