I'm not going to complain, once I got a map and strategical guidelines I did better than ever. Just feeling like my improvement as a player(I still played hella stupid, like there was this weird thing where I'd think I had clicked to change ships, but hadn't changed ships, and other crap, like thinking I found a reset when I hadn't, and thinking I needed a reset when I didn't, multiple times, etc...), somehow broke the game.
Oh well. Guess I'll have to find something useful to do when my knee or shoulder hurt too bad to sleep.