Thought I would introduce myself:
I'm Charger24, a fan of all RTS games, but a newbie to RoN. Besides Rise of Nations, I play all the Age of Empires games as well as Homeworld and Starcraft. I like to mod, so I've done some major personal editing to AoEIII, and would like to do so with RoN as well.
I'm looking forward to learning more about this great game on the RoN forums.