Sweet.. Well if you want my help with the art design of buildings for the bases or anything I don't mind to help but I need to know what program to us to make them and I have more ideas like story lines. If I could make my own game it be like UFO:Alien Invasion. I would go to gaming school but I cant get the $$$Greens$$$ to pay for it..So i'm stuck 
well its up to you guys if i'm in if not its cool but anyways awsome game 
We can definitely use your help - I'd also suggest getting on the IRC channel if you haven't already.
As for formal training, that's not a problem, I myself have never sat through a 3D modeling class of any kind and can't hand-draw with a pencil worth a d***, yet I use GIMP and Blender now. I've also never attended a C/C++ programming class, yet I do some coding now (but not currently for this project). I'm one of those mostly self-taught types from Internet as well as (before Internet existed) books and experimentation. I'd like to have a programming degree, but I also can't afford the education - I started out with "jobs" where I wasn't paid money but in fact worked directly for food, something most people don't go through (but now I have my own place with a roof over my head). With this in mind, you don't need to consider yourself necessarily "stuck."
BTW, our wiki also has a TODO of much of what we need for the next release - it may give you some idea of where you might want to help.
Last but not least, if you want to further discuss this specific topic it might be good to put it in a new thread, as this has already gotten quite off-topic from the original post.
