I think I've lost count. Human culture is so vast. I'm not surprised that a culture like the Toraja or Maori would be over looked for more Euro centric cultures but I'm starting to think that even if I don't enjoy the game I'm grateful enough for the concept of fluid human cultures that change over time being the focus of a game that I'll continue to look forward to the release of this game and hope it can become a pivotal and fundamental turning point away from generalized and popularized notions of 1st / 2nd / 3rd world civilizations. Because it's Amplitude I don't think they'll be able to get away from snow balling shenanigans and make playing from behind that interesting. 

What do you expect for core mechanics? This launch has been a refinement and I'm happy to say with a bit more experience under my belt I can almost bring myself to disagree with myself above. I can't imagine a civilization game that doesn't at some point bring in more complicated systems like pollution and maybe even another attempt at modern cyber warfare (oooh nooo). I can kind of imagine that even if it may not have the depth that it could... it might be a solid enough and balanced enough experience that people looking to play multiplayer might come back the the 'base' / 'launch' version for a better multiplayer experience because it's a more playable game.