2008

2008 was Solia Online's first year.

June[]

June 19 - Solia Online grand opening as the site was adapted from TornFaun. Gold gain was temporarily turned up to five times the normal setting.
June 19 - June Monthly Collectables released: Lunar Leader Wings and Solar Leader Wings.
June 22 - Shop update; 25 Gold Store! opened selling Lunar and Sun sets.
June 24 - Gold gain returned to normal.

July 1 - Trades released.
July 3 - July Monthly Collectables released: Sash of Golden Leaves and Twilight Star.
July 30 - Twilight Charity Auction began.

August 1 - August Monthly Collectables released: Majig-a-ma-Angry Kitty and Pandamonium.
August 13 - New server installed to cope with higher site traffic.

September 1 - September Monthly Collectables released: Mask of Luna and Mask of Sol.
September 4 - Item Update commenced, making a lot of items unisexed, and adding new items. Users were first seen to notice in this thread [1], even though the official update had already been up for several hours with out anyone noticing.
September 20 - Solia Online went offline and then returned for its first major update in which the whole layout of the site among many other things were upgraded.

October 1 - October Monthly Collectables released: 13th Tail and Seeping Darkness.
October 14 - Solian Idol started, requesting art entries with the chance for the winner to be a hired CG artist for Solia Online or have a set of their emoticons used on the site. First official NPC Bryan Mac Cloud introduced.
October 15 - Snadien Jaminson introduced, opening Professor Jaminson's Lab and selling HCFR-983.
October 17 - Accessory Shop opened with a range of new accessories.
October 19 - New serum HCFR-1490 released.
October 22 - New serum HCFR-2980 released. HCFR-1490 and HCFR-983 were re-pixeled.
October 28 - New serum HCFR-3001 released. "Full Moon" to begin tonight.
October 31 - Trick or Treat began.
October 31 - Emoticon voting for Solian Idol began.

November 1 - November Monthly Collectibles released: Lunar Tail, Windflower, and November 2008 Toy Capsule.
November 7 - Trick or Treat ended.
November 9 - Emoticon voting for Solian Idol ended.
November 28 - First round voting for Solian Idol began.

December 1 - December Monthly Collectibles released: Quartz Blade, Ruby Bolt Sword, and December 2008 Toy Capsule. The Random Event Cube was also released and Solia Online got a new Winter-themed header featuring falling snow.
December 2 - First round voting for Solian Idol ended.
December 16 - The Trial of Snadien Jaminson began.
December 17 - Second round voting for Solian Idol began.
December 22 - Solian Idol Item Contest announced.
December 23 - Solians were able to travel to the North Pole, where Santa's helper Jim gave everybody a ticket to Workshop 42A to claim a Christmas Gift Box.
December 25 - First round voting for Solian Idol Item Contest began.
December 25 - Voting to decide who was guilty out of Snadien Jaminson, Dr. Emilia Astrovitch, Bill Shuman, Bryan Mac Cloud, Candice Stratus and Jim following The Trial of Snadien Jaminson began.
December 26 - Christmas Gift Boxes able to be opened, revealing a Zombie Head and a battle between humans, zombies and ghouls in A Christmas Nightmare.