[InvisibleDeath]

Okay to answer the various questions asked:

First there is no install so it is only what they do inside Flash.
Second I should have said this but the tools are there. When I click on the ruler, for example, then try to draw a line, all I do is move the map.
Same with all of the other tools.

When I go back to the screen that shows my missions and where I am at, the screen is not populated with any port but mine. I've zoomed out quite a bit and the port destination for the convoy is not shown.

And the point of mentioning the first mission was not to say this shouldn't be the first mission. It is to say that they are escorted, with destroyers, but no indication as to what direction they are going in. So I could come into them from the side (prefered) or from the rear (playing the end-around game) or worse from the front with destroyers right on top of me. All of this, again, because I cannot see any ports but my own.

Now maybe it is that my first mission and my interface is still "in tutorial mode" and since I've not had a tutorial about using the tools I cannot use them. And since I've not been given a tutorial about setting the torpedo depth then the button just sits there and does nothing.

And since it is in beta I am taking the time to report about the numerous times the tutorial screen suddenly jumps up when I'm in the middle of trying to accomplish a task. Not once but numerous times and sometimes just one mouse movement makes it jump back up again. And I'll report it because it IS beta. Though if things do not open up more in the UI then I'd say that this is actually an Alpha. But the first impressions of the game are not good.