The Bugs section redirected me here, which defeats its purpose, but I've got problems even starting a game up. They managed to help me to the Game Selection screen, but nothing more.
I've gotten as far as I can in the tutorials, which is clicking the "New" button in the game selection screen - From there, I don't have the option to start a new game. Rather, it just gives me a blank Game Selection screen. I know exactly the screen that's supposed to come up (I've seen it before, prior to the help of the Bugs section), and that is clearly not it.
I've tried to continue playing without that screen, where the game is simply a name and parameters of where the systems would be. The Bugs section told me to try and start with, "Empires>>System Maps." This only gave me a pop-up saying I needed to select a default race. So, "Game>>Select Default Race," right? Another pop-up - "No races have been created." Where from here? My best guess was "Empires>>View Race Details." I could do next to nothing with that screen; Race Name, Theme, Color, Flag, Image.
The latter two had me select .BMP images from the ones provided. Once I did that, 'Run-time Error "381"' came about, telling me "Invalid property array index," before closing Aurora in its entirety. On top of all this, it won't let me save on this screen, making it entirely useless.
In short, nothing works despite my best efforts, and the Bugs section has done next to nothing.