[Suicide Junkie]

I may as well give you the benefit of the doubt, so I will mention it; Shrapnel is not publishing SE5. They have most kindly created an SE5 forum for us to use.
The forum is open, although perhaps you may have personally been banned from it. I wouldn't know about that.

By the way, Richard HIMSELF has repeately stated that Off-Topic threads are welcome.

If you don't like the space empires series, and have convinced yourself that SE5 will suck, then so be it: go and play something else.

PS:
If you care at all about post count, you are very very shallow. To most of us, possibly all of the regulars, post count means absolutely squat. Post quality, on the other hand, means everything.

PPS:
Actually, scratch that. Low post count means a new player. We LIKE those. It means more new SE4 ideas, discussions, and questions will be posted soon.