Founding dates?

[Anduz]

Is there anywhere a nations founding date can be found and / or displayed?

[Ballotonia]

Is there anywhere a nations founding date can be found and / or displayed?

Yeah, right here on the forum, at the left of the post. For you and me however it reads "Antiquity", which means our nations were founded before the game even recorded founding dates. With these dates not recorded, they are hence also available nowhere at all.

You might be able to make an estimate though, based on information from NS History: http://nsdossier.texasregion.net/history.aspx

Ballotonia

[Golden Triangle]

Unfortunately, that doesn't always work. Some nations report their founding date as "Established: unknown". These appear to be nations that have been around for some years, we have Mondriaan in our region 0000000000000 who is an example.

[Ballotonia]

Unfortunately, that doesn't always work. Some nations report their founding date as "Established: unknown". These appear to be nations that have been around for some years, we have Mondriaan in our region 0000000000000 who is an example.

Yep, that's also an Antiquity nation, although it has never posted on the forum.

What I meant was that when using the link I provided, one can look at the earliest known entry and know that the nation was created at least that long ago. In the case of Mondriaan, that's "20030719", or July 19, 2003. The prior scan was June 13, so that puts Mondriaan's creation date somewhere between those two dates.

In the case of Anduz, all the site tells is that it's before May 15, 2003.

Ballotonia

[Hellfire Facilitators]

Is there any way of finding the creation date for a region, particularly an old pre-2004 region?

[Ballotonia]

Is there any way of finding the creation date for a region, particularly an old pre-2004 region?

No, but the same site linked above can also provide information about a region and you could limit it to a range. The data goes back to May 28, 2003.

Ballotonia

[Bears Armed]

For nations, insert their name into this url http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/api ... ears_armed where the version that I've posted here says bears_armed and follow the link to their data which includes a mention of how long ago they were founded.

EDIT: *(checks, using Mondriaan as example)*

Oops! Unless they're too old to for their origin to be recorded there, as that nation (for example) is....

[Golden Triangle]

Yes, we (myself, Homecorejets, Brunelian BG advocates) have already been there. Homecorejets discovered that 0000000000000 was much older than any of us had first thought, but can't find any way of finding old how far back it goes before May 2003. All help appreciated.

[Anduz]

This is absolutely amazing!

I've literally just come across this post (my only ever post apparently) after submitting it in 2011, walking away, and only now reading these excellent responses! I shall most definitely have a look at that index.

Great job chaps!

Andy

[Goobergunchia]

Don't gravedig.