This game looks terrifying. Not sure if I wanna poke it.
Come on, don't be afraid of a little complexity hidden under an even more complex ui.
There are a number of decent tutorials for getting started, and people are usually quick to answer questions. That said, there is a learning curve.
I say go for it, jump in with both feet, ask lots and lots of questions, when you get to the point where you're designing stuff, post your designs for us to
laugh at help optimize, and you'll be having a blast in no time!
Of course, if your vertical resolution is less than 768 don't even bother. I believe it's just barely playable at 768 height, with the reduced height windows option, and a little bit of window finagling. Or if you have a smaller height, but just want to play anyway, damn it, check out flying dice's sig throughout this thread, they've got a link to desktop resizing tools which reportedly work to make the game playable.
Also, I strongly recommend you get the Aurora wrapper program (I believe it's linked at aurora's main forum). This keeps you from having to run a hilariously outdated installer which confusingly prompts you to overwrite system files with much older versions of them.
If all this hasn't scared you off, then you just might have what it takes to play this monster of a game.