You haven't missed much. This scene is rather dead right now. I have HL2 now and have just figured out how to make maps with Hammer. The biggest problem I have been having lately is carry through. I have yet to actually carry out any of the plans I had about this website. I hope this summer will give me a good amount of time to recover the site's promises. I will be working this summer, but only 12 hours a week (6 hours per day for 2 days a week - Monday and Tuesday (8am to 2pm) as a lab tech at South Puget Sound Community College). Wednesday through Sunday I'll be able to do 'stuff' for my website to hopefully surge some life back into it.
I hope to 'merge' my HL2 stuff with the Redemption stuff on this website. I have said many things about coming up with new ideas, but end up going back to old ones. This summer will be when I FINALIZE where I stand on everything I have said during the past year. I guess everything is on the table at this point. I hope you can be around to at least voice an oppinion or provide some support in the area of 'ideas'. I hope everyone will be around to help put some ideas on the table.
We are reaching our 1 year anniversary here at E-Mods.net and have 2 more years of contract with acenet. Those 2 years will be the time of judgement for e-mods.net and determine whether I will be motivated to continue paying to keep the site up for another 3 years or have it shut down. I want to get back to the state of mind I had over a year ago and start carrying out promises rather than just empty ideas.