I think 'fair' reviews are those that persuade/suggest the less intense sim buyer to hang fire while the problems are sorted, but tell the devoted minority that it's going to be a good game provided they don't mind spending a few days (and perhaps a couple of $100 on upgrades) to get it mostly okay. Only fair to point out that for everyone with a long list of problems there appears to be another user with no problems at all, who is happy as Larry with it.
I don't think you can rate it that high with so many known bugs in 1.1, perhaps you might say 8 now, 9 when they get the bigger problems sorted? Tough call really - reviews ought to be 'warts and all' or you simply become part of the advertising imo, yet at the same time you don't want to kill the program off and initial sales are bound to be important.
As a matter of course they should point people to the mod forum, particularly to Ducimus' 'Flavour to taste' which sorts a good few of the niggles out - a public BZ for that, you carry on doing your own thing Ducimus!
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