Play tutorial before modding or HasCompletedTutorial=true?

Hi folks,

After a long break from subs I reinstalled SH3 recently after I saw the progress of the mods for it.

Couple of days later I was reading about the SH5 mods, got excited about them also and bought it straight away. There's some really inspirational work being done by members of this site. In the words of Steve Martin it makes me "emotionally erect".

So I spent about 3 hours yesterday sourcing and unpacking the mods I'm starting with (sure are a lot) and this leads me to a question. A few times in this forum I've read that the tutorial should be completed before installing any mods. But then I read about the "HasCompletedTutorial=true" setting.

My question is: is it still necessary to complete the tutorial or can I just set this configuration?

Cheers!