im in exactly the same boat syonco. the frustrating thing for me is that i actually bought the original falcon 4.0 13 years ago and was fairly clued up. i then stopped playing for a few years and forgot all of it.
ive tried several times to get back into falcon over the last few years but after a few hours hours i just annoyingly lose interest. its almost as though the older ive got the shorter my attention span has become.
so here i am again about to try and rekindle my interest. i think another big problem is that back when it was 1st released i could just go through all the tutorials from the original manual (which i still have) but with the new changes with mods and whatnot a lot of the stuff from the manual is outdated which is where i normally hit the brick wall.