Brian Shanahan
Permanoob
I think most people who think civ5 is deeply flawed in many ways (which is opinion and you can't really proof)
Actually you can prove whether something is flawed or not, because it is an objective decision set. The kind of proofs needed would be things like, "is the game playing as designed?" (Nyet, even now that they've nerfed every single strategy that Shafer doesn't like), or "how buggy is the game?" (very at start, and even now there are elementary bugs in the gam), or "has it been properly tested?" (not a chance, otherwise they would have found the incompatibility issue between 1UPT and strategic level empire management which is game breaking), and about 100,000 different things which contribute massively to the unplayability of Civ 5 as a strategy game.
respect mod decission (ok granted we have no other choice that this forum should be for ppl who like the game and just don't post.
That's why you'll find few examples now.
No this forum should be for people who are fans of the series who want to talk about the series, what is good with the games what is bad with the games, and when a turkey comes out trash it completely. If you want to go back far enough into the archives, you can see the absolute different approach taken towards all the criticisms of Civ 3 and it's two expansions where free discussion was allowed of the game and all its many flaws and bugs.
But unfortunately the site sold out, despite not needing to, when Civ 5 was announced and has been drinking the corporate kool-aid ever since on it.