There's a lot to learn, without a doubt. I don't even dabble with 3d; I'm straight up a 2d person.
The most recent issue I've struggled with - and, honestly, it has begun to lead me toward abandoning the project altogether in favour of other projects - is how to move an object from Scene to Scene and save the progress so when the user restarts the game the object is in that new Scene. I might take another look at it (it has been about four weeks now) but, honestly, this one is enough to get me to throw in the towel.
RE: By the gods - The overlapping influence ring problem