Elemental just isn't a fun game.

Yes, I know Stardock is working hard to fix Elemental.  Great customer support.

Yes, I'm aware that the memory errors are going to be fixed in v1.2   Hopefully?  My save game every turn finger has got epic blisters.

AI improved, bugs squashed, added content.  All fantastic.

Yes, I know that we get the first expansion free of charge.   Awesome.

All of this is very good and Stardock is to be commended.   They could have just trashed this and moved on.

Yet, I see a bigger problem:  Elemental is not fun to play.  I'm lost, I'm frustrated, and frankly I have more fun playing Master of Magic & Dominions 3.

I want to love Elemental, yet it's fighting against me.  Even after the patches.  There's a great game somewhere inside--I know it. 

I see flickers of it here and there.  Glimmers.   But I really really want to like it.   And so I keep coming back, hoping it will be fun.

Part of the problem is: I don't know exactly what I am doing, even after however many patches there has been.   It's incredibly frustrating.

I've been waiting for it to be fun, but despite the improvements, it just isn't.  I have no motivation to keep playing, no one more turn feel.

So without boring everyone to death and complaining ad nauseum about every element, I have two requests/suggestions Stardock:

When v1.2 comes out, could it PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE have an in-game tutorial?  A real pdf manual would be nice too. 

Perhaps you can show me how to play since I'm just not having fun trying to learn it by myself.    

As I'm typing this, I am looking at my 300 page Dominions 3 manual...wistfully.  

Thank you.