How I came into freespace hmmm... It came with a joystick I bought. I used my überintellegent reasoning skillz to figure that if there is a FS2, then there must be an FS1, (I know, I'm just so smart it scares me.) I then found out a few months later that Silent Threat existed. Bought FS1 and FS2 on E-Bay for about $70 each but I only paid $5 for ST.
I soon used fred 2 to complete a campaign complete with 30 of the n00biest missions you can dream of. By the time I finished it, I didn't know that the WV archives were totally defunct and I tried for days and days to post it there.
When I finally found out that the boards had closed down and WV was totally dead, I was devestated. After a few hours of site hopping, I came across Sectorgame. I lurked in their forums for a bit and learned that there was a much larger "central" forum for Freespacers which happened to be HLP. I lurked for about a year or so. My n00by missions were lost due to a HD crash. I cried for hours, but looking back I'm glad it happened. Now I'm working on a brand new project [p1mp] it's called Relentless. No n00by missions in there! Linky to the page is in my siggie [/p1mp] After a seemingly loooong time, I finally registered. I'm glad I lurked for a while because I got to learn about the forum culture and the frequent visitors. So yeah, thats where I'm at today.
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