Dev Stream Today (Friday, September 5th) at 3pm EST, Noon Pacific

During a Dev Stream a while ago, you guys mentioned that the ship part textures were going to be able to scale.

So if you stretch a wing to twice its size, the little textures on it would scale back to keep the detail.

Is this still going to be implemented?

Regarding my only suggestion so far: Use nebulae to provide shape to the map

Asteroids, nebulae and dust clouds currently offer very little in terms of affecting the terrain and shape of the map. Are there any plans to improve the terrain and how it affects the map, to avoid an essentially empty and shapeless one each game?

At this moment when  you change the production wheel there is no direct way to see how the allocated research points result in research completion turns. The research percentage and actual numbers of research points generated is being shown. 

To see whether there is an actual change in the number of research to complete turns, you have to close the govern economy tab and open the technology window.
PS: After you close the Govern window the "research turn remaining" tooltip (top right corner of the main view) is not properly updated.

So the question is:
Will there (in the future) be something that will show in the govern/economy window the research completion turns for the given distribution of the production wheel?

I recently encountered an old podcast in which Paul assured the host that the "eject ship" button would be gone and we would simply be able to move off of planets, shipyards, and starbases. Is that still the plan?

Will the Founder's Vault ever get any new content?

Are trade routes going to be limited in number? Because 9 or so on an immense map isn't a lot.

Is the in-game encyclopedia still in the cards?

In the files I read about different types of alliances, will we be able to have multiple alliances with the same civilization? Ex. have Cultural and Technological alliance with the Altarians.

Any plans on working with the last set camera view and zoom setting, in addition to the sensor range of certain custom ships when loading a save game? Right now, when we load a save game, the camera defaults to a zoomed in view of your home planet and any ships you have built with added sensors don't have their increased sensor range enabled until you eject a ship from orbit. Would be nice to have the last settings of the camera view, zoom setting, and sensor range all saved to the game file so that they are all restored when you load up that saved game.

When a player attacks a stack he always attacks the first ship/fleet in the list (as shown in the info panel - bottom left). The order of this list appear to be the order in which the ships/fleets arrived on that location.

However the AI seems to be able to attack your stacked ships/fleets out-of-order.

Does the AI sees a different order then the order-of-arrival on a location or can he pick-and-choose which ship/fleet to attack?

If the AI sees a different order in which order does the AI see your ships/fleets on a location? If the AI can pick-and-choose is the player going to be able to do that also?

Just curious if we will be able to retreat in battle? I find it silly the idea that a commander would fight to the last ship. I could see a set up similar to Star Wars Empire at War where there is a 10 to 15 second countdown for the fleet to retreat from battle. In those few seconds they would stop firing and be taking damage. Also this could have other techs associated with it like faster jump times or technology to increase an enemy's jump time.

Are there plans to exploit asteroids and gas giants?  

Currently population is what makes an industrial world productive, are there plans to add automation to industrialization? 

Are the current tile sizes set in stone?  As they are currently small worlds aren't really worth colonizing until late game when you can add several tiles but even they they are generally pretty limited.   I realize the tile system is an abstraction of limited space on a small world but if you can colonize Mars immediately you really should be able to build more than 3 improvements on it, its not like its covered in water and even if colonization is limited to the poles due to using the ice there really should allow for the building of really just about anything you need to make the colony successful.

Are there plans to add really amazing structures like ring worlds, Dyson Spheres or solar system engineering(as in Mars and Venus aren't really useful as they are but if we move Venus opposite Earth's orbit and run Mars into it we could end up with another Earth it would of course be amazingly expensive but you should have the resources to do it in the age of ascension)?

Gal Civ battles have always been winner take all, but we may play with some traits, or components that would let ships escape from losing battles. But you wont see anything like that for a few betas. 

I'll be missing all these streams now. In regards, to winner take all combat mechanics what kinds of traits are we talking about here?

Will there be a pocket dimension trait where the ships activate this pocket dimension and disappear for a couple turns (partially repaired) and come back onto the main screen? Possibly a forced random wormhole drive that moves the ship to random location (some distance away from the battle location)? Or do they just move to a nearby hex disabled? A sacrifice of the carriers tiny fighters so the carrier can move away while disabling the enemy fleet?

Still waiting on the YouTube version.

Ditto!

How do you get Mars to a class 16 planet??  Maybe in Galactic Civilizations II.  I colonized Mars as the Alterians and the maximum I was able to get it is a class 9 and that's only after all the research for terraforming is completed.  

Me 3

It'll be up in a bit.  It's giving me trouble again this week.

Thanks for the heads up and for sticking with it. Looking forward to watching it!

What happened that the stream is only 18 minutes or will the you tube version be longer?

The stream went down so Twitch made it into two clips.  I put them together so the YouTube video is the entire stream.

It's on YouTube now.

Cool, because I lost the Stream, again.... and I have soooo many questions. Youtube here I come.

Raynman... your ship was a floating colony pod. What kind of UFO was that and what experiments were being done to all those people I agree with Paul, you need some engines on that thing.

Will there be an event that will move the dust clouds in the systems? On another note will the dust clouds serve a utility purpose? (i.e. production bonus, minability, hideability)

Thanks ID!

Thanks Island Dog