Well I'm gonna drop lots of time in the ship maker... Fuck my life (WORTH IT) 

Hot damn he's answered pretty much all my questions!

Indeed. Complexity, and as many hard strategical choices as possible presented to the player, is what the intelligent strategy player want.

There is also a huge difference between micro management adding to gameplay/strategy/feel and atmosphere, and micro completely due to a bad designed UI.

They mentioned a history page being added to Galactic Civilizations III,  This was in the game in Galactic Civilizations II in the Civilization manager under events...  Is it me or was that exactly what they were talking about at 30 minutes in?  Maybe more specific or more in detail but essentially it's already in the previous version on the game?

Yes, But the Event list was did not really give as much us full information as you would think, currently we are trying to make it a bit more usefull, Currently we are calling it History, instead of events.

This is kind of a good example of what they were saying, most things a player needs are there, finding them in GC2 could some times be hard. 

The Elemental Games have entirely different Mechanics when it comes to research, taxes, production, etc, In GC3 Population control will be handled more or less the same way as it was in GC2, leaving room for improvement of course. 

Hopefully it's more gradual, in GC2 it spikes up like crazy at a certain point and thus building bigger farms is just never worth doing.

Also noted that Espionage is out of the base game, from this podcast. It'll be coming at some point later.

yeah i usually modded the entertainment techs to give massive morale boosts to compansate