Dear MoToM! I'm happy to hear you're absolutely satisfied with game manual and forums. This just doesn't mean everybody who isn't are morons
The forums are not suitable very much for collecting knowledges - that's why wiki form were invented. I just offered to mr. Bullethead to create official wiki - hope he will answer soon.
P.S. Strange thing - when I asked him a specific question - he often misses it, but reacts on secondary unimportant replicas. I'll presume to tell that I'm not just a guy roaming these forums - I'm the same customer as everybody other is. And I have my right to issue my opinion - still I'm sure I'm doing this in a delicate manner...