Glad you are having a go. The Trainee missions are intended to introduce you to the various order types without having to learn what they are/do and as you move through the missions they will get more complicated. It was useful to me to see the auto orders the missions had issued as they then showed what was done to carry out the actions.
With the affiliations some aggressively recruit but most are more re-active to you messaging them.
It might not help but here is my list to what the affiliations are like in terms of films/books/country in history in my own opinion (I have missed several affiliations that I am not that familiar with) but it does give an idea of the flavour of some of the affiliations....If you want any advice then please respond with what you like/want to do or how you play games such as this and I can try and point you in the right direction.
Joss.
Affiliation/ Film / Book / Country
BHD / Priest / 40k Universe (word bearers) / Crusaders or the inquisition
IMP / Alliance in firefly or star wars empire / Prussia 18th-19th century/
AFT Deep Space 9 / Vatta Series / Venice 15-16th cent or east india cmp/
CNF Starcraft confederacy / Starship troopers / South in American Civil War/
DTR Battlestar Galactica/ The fleet / 18th cent England or Republican Rome/
CIA Matrix style Agent smith / Mission Earth / Soviet Russias KGB/
FET Ferengi in star trek / The fleet (syndicate side) Mongols/
GTT Alien universe / Lt leary novels / The North in American civil war/
DEN Klingons, Dog soldier wolves / The fleet (Khaleri side) / Vikings/
Liquan Dune House / Dune House / Sun King in france/
Ravenstone Dune House / Dune House / Romanov Russia/
WMB Cuddly ones in gremlins / Midgit race in old mans war /
SMS / GAP Series / America/
Hive Starship troops alien or tyrranid /
MOH / Foundation humans / Dutch traders 16th cent or port/spanish later /
With the affiliations some aggressively recruit but most are more re-active to you messaging them.
It might not help but here is my list to what the affiliations are like in terms of films/books/country in history in my own opinion (I have missed several affiliations that I am not that familiar with) but it does give an idea of the flavour of some of the affiliations....If you want any advice then please respond with what you like/want to do or how you play games such as this and I can try and point you in the right direction.
Joss.
Affiliation/ Film / Book / Country
BHD / Priest / 40k Universe (word bearers) / Crusaders or the inquisition
IMP / Alliance in firefly or star wars empire / Prussia 18th-19th century/
AFT Deep Space 9 / Vatta Series / Venice 15-16th cent or east india cmp/
CNF Starcraft confederacy / Starship troopers / South in American Civil War/
DTR Battlestar Galactica/ The fleet / 18th cent England or Republican Rome/
CIA Matrix style Agent smith / Mission Earth / Soviet Russias KGB/
FET Ferengi in star trek / The fleet (syndicate side) Mongols/
GTT Alien universe / Lt leary novels / The North in American civil war/
DEN Klingons, Dog soldier wolves / The fleet (Khaleri side) / Vikings/
Liquan Dune House / Dune House / Sun King in france/
Ravenstone Dune House / Dune House / Romanov Russia/
WMB Cuddly ones in gremlins / Midgit race in old mans war /
SMS / GAP Series / America/
Hive Starship troops alien or tyrranid /
MOH / Foundation humans / Dutch traders 16th cent or port/spanish later /