One of the on-screen tips in the loading screen says "You are unable to damage other players of your own nation" or something to that effect.

Obviously, this is no longer the case.

Since we're on the subject of tips: The tip (paraphasing) "you must at least 3000 from large objects to jump" is a catch-22 because you can never read the tip unless you've sucessfully jumped.

That's mostly true, though you can also see it when you log on.

But doesn't it always cycle through the list in a certain order? And that one isn't first.