I kind of rushed adding the tutorial and having the opponent there was something I something I thought about but in my head that would've made it too much info in one go for the player, in retrospect I do think the opponent being there during the tutorial would've been better.
The painting circles yellow (undecided) is kind of just an extra step before you can paint them blue (in favour) mainly did that to make the game feel a bit more strategic, but I guess that didn't work hahaha.
Thank you :)