One last thing, I hated being 17, you lose a lot of your childhood friends. When you go to university it gets better though. You are going to university right? You seem to be quite intelligent.
Since I go Natur-sience I don't have much of a choice, I can't get ANY jobs when I finnish school, so university is the only whay to go (that's the whole point of going natur-since btw).
And where do I find strategy guids? They would be fun to see. And learning the hot-keys isn't very hard. Knowing how to use the skills are harder... And training on single-player is quite useless... I mean killing crittens isn't hard, it's the heroes that gets you all the time and they don't appear in single-player.
Übereil (now I'm gonna try Pirates (Yes, I downloaded it! I'm getting pretty corrupt...). My brother played the classic variant and liked it back then. Let's see how I will like it.)