I agree with the advanced mentoring thing, as I have tried over the years to get several of my friends to play, and almost all of them quit after saying the game was boring and too hard to figure out. It is a serious problem, and won't be fixed with the status quo "let them ask somebody". I myself had no help whatsoever finding out what everything did, and so had to do it by experimentation. That isn't very fun, especially when you do something that gets you scolded, even if you didn't know what would happen.
