I appreciate all the suggestions!
There are a lot of different types of people who play WarLight. Some play multi-player competitively, some just play FFAs, some just play diplomacy games / role playing games, some just play the single player campaign, some just play single player community levels, and some just play multi-player games with their friends and never venture out into the community.
they should learn how to pick territories for example. How the cycle works. how to deploy efficiently. I thought the tutorial could be like the levels of a manual of chess, where you have to checkmate in a set number of moves.
These are all great things to teach a player who is focused on playing competitively. But as explained above, that's not every player's goal. The single player campaign attempts to strike a balance in teaching players of all goals, while still being fun.
If someone is interested in making a series of tutorial levels specific to teaching players to be comptitive, I think it would be a great addition to the single-player campaign as kind of a "side track" or something.
Maybe there should be auto-generated multi-player games for exclusively lower-level players?
There is one already -- there's a multi-player "newbie game" that only shows up for new accounts. Of course, more could be done in making this better, and we do have a plan post-Unity for easing new players into multi-player.
Giving a notification when you disable the begin button the first time might fix that already
In the new Unity client, the "don't show this again" box won't even be there on the NLC begin dialog. That box is really a newbie trap anyway and probably shouldn't have existed. If you really want to turn it off you can still do so on the Settings tab but I wouldn't advise it.