Hi NBD
I think that is too soon to quit on this one. I think that even among wargamers, tanking is a branch not enjoyed easily by everyone. You might find other branchs more appealing. In you post you refer to tanksims as a separate bread.
Nowadays is specially difficult to adapt to the game as a newbie. I think is harder now to be a newbie than it was when I got the game. Today there are so many players that have a high skill. Is not that there were not before, is just that today are far more. I don't think that today the gaming is dominated by a single person, or a couple persons alone. Now in each game you will find acomplished players.
So I only can suggest to be patient. Once you become familiar with SB interface and when you become inmersed in the virtual battlefield you will enjoy it whole lot. If you are posting this thread I think is because you want to be convinced otherwise. There is something into this game that made you post this thread.
I am far from being a computer expert, still I manage to join games and most of the time i solve the troubles i find or, usually, someone tells me how. If you are patient enough and have available time, you will find ppl who will help you in any issue, be it sb's interface or gaming.
We are not the average pc gamers, and even in the wargaming comunity, the SB comunity is a special bread. Some of us dont play any other game than this.
Joining multiplayer is not as difficult as you mention in your post, if it was I would surely not being playing. I am not computer literate and I am not even US person. I am mexican, and barely understand spoken Eng, sometimes not even typed
I don't think i saw you in the chat place. And chat was very crowded today.
I suggest you to reconsider your decision and if you however find that you dont like it, it could not only be that you dont like the game, but that you dont like tanks at all, and that is not bad. If you like this game is because you definately like tanks. Not everybody likes them. I guess most ppl think we are freaks:) We are different definately.
Good luck, hope you decide to stay.
HG