The title says it all. Create a new character and the mandatory tutorial, that instructs you in how to buy a ship and get a mission, is not showing up.

To clarify, you are able to select and take the mission "Training I" however the window/overlay that takes you through the first couple steps of choosing a color, purchasing a ship etc. before you get to the actual mission does not show up.

The mandatory tutorial is only shown once per client normally. There is an option to show the tutorial in next new character in the Options. Or you can delete your config.ini and wgaf.cfg files but then you'd lose all your other settings too.

In the past, this has always been shown per-character. I removed my config.ini and double-checked. This tutorial is still not being shown for new characters. This is the only explanation I can think for "How do a buy a ship?" and "How do I buy a powercell?" becoming the new most popular question for newbies. I even tested the "Run Tutorial On Next Station Dock" toggle in Options > Interface. This appears to also be a per-character flag.

Watching my config.ini, when I create a new character I get the following
[Etwas]
channels=1 11 100
clickedsector=

When I click "Run Tutorial..." and click "OK" I get
[Etwas]
channels=1 11 100
clickedsector=
hailmsg=You who are about to die, I salute you.
run_tutorial=0

When I complete the tutorial I have the following.
[Etwas]
channels=1 11 100
clickedsector=
hailmsg=You who are about to die, I salute you.
run_tutorial=-1

The only thing I can think of is that a default value for the run_tutorial was changed and/or the behavior of run_tutorial in conjunction with the "Run Tutorial..." toggle was changed but inconsistantly.