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Hi all, This will bit a bit of a rant, the questions are at the end, fell free to scroll. Newbie here, love the concept, would really like to get stuck in. Like any serious student I look for the textbook / manual, ok, no manual but a huge Wiki, Great! Most of the stuff only about older versions of the game, not so great, but hey... Right, how to proceed? Training missions obviously, the way to learn and get a feel. So, I've gone through the training missions and... well, I promised myself no expletives... So, the first 2 work. The others don't. I won't say too much about the clipped instructions that leave out a solid third of the stuff you as a newbie need to know, let's just say that the scripts in those missions could be more informative and leave it at that for now. The others are bleeped, probably because nobody bothered to look them over before releasing new versions, my guess of course, they might have been rubbish right from the get go. So, as most people do, I assumed I was the idiot, this is space flight after all, not easy, physics,math and stuff. But I checked the Wiki/forums and found one solution that clearly showed there actually was a wrong setting in the training craft, that mission cannot be completed unless you do stuff (to the parachute in this case) not mentioned anywhere in the mission instruction. It goes on, eventually I called the guy who recommended the game; engineer, smart guy, space nerd. Complained loudly. He laughs and says what I guess most of the folks on this here forum would say; "Training missions? Man, why are you messing with them?" Because I want to learn, dammit, and these are supposed to help me do that, and it says "1.0.5" right at the bottom of the screen so this is the latest stuff, right? Wrong. It seems. So I ask my friend, to check out the scenarios. His reply; "Nothing wrong there, just had to tweak things a little, well one of the ships does actually have the wrong configuration, guess they missed that when they upgraded." So I told him to go back and play the tutorials, by the book, just as a complete newbie would, no tweaks, no shortcuts. He was a bit more subdued the next time. "They're unplayable, well, all but the first two." So, questions: 1. Are we right? Are the Training Missions out of sync with the upgrades, if so that is really poor marketing. This thing sells on Steam now, tons of new users I would guess. 2. Has anybody of all you clever people out there run thru the Training Missions after 1.0.5? Would you do it? Just to see if my friend and I are right, and maybe at least post a list of stuff the the newbie user can do to struggle through? Answers and comment would be much appriciated.