there are several places to find people to play these games online, also would help if you could get ahold of some of those people over the phone or...
I started modding when I got HW2 in 2003. (I pre-ordered.) I limited myself to stuff I could fit on my Geocities page. So, no ship mods, models, textures and so forth. Since then I've been creating a lot of mods.
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Raytracing, vector graphics, programming.
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