Mine never crashed, but the 1st training mission, nothing happens, just two ships blowing the crap out of each other and neither receiving hull or shield damage... and it just on like that forever, until I exited the mission.

I had a similar problem with the Tutorials, I had to watch the second before the first would work.

Still after watching the tutorials, I decided to play a game with the Advent. I Like Psionic/Tech massminds. Amazingly enough (or maybe not), I was completely lost with few of the techs/buildings with similar analogs. Aside from a few basic elements, the tutorials REALLY don't seem to help too much. The manual is a bit better of explaining how the game works while the tutorials give a very basic view of how the controls work.

Granted the Normal AI I "practiced" with taught me quite a bit about the strategy of the game. I learned about pirate raids. I learned about sniping the clock. I was shown how to coordinate attacks with pirate raids. Of course, it was a demonstrative class where I was the subject.

Good times.... Good Times....