That looks like a great ship.

Could we get a sneak peak at some drawings of stuff for the other races that your going to include in the game. Maybe a few yor ship designs? I'd be satisfied with another Adam ship.

It's almost like we read the forums!

Question: How do you think about removing (or postponing till expansion) of features from the prequel, instead of fine tuning them or otherwise changing them to make them fun? Is this de-innovation of the series? For example systems like espionage and terror stars are not slated to be in the base game, while i don't think anybody would argue that those couldn't be made into cool systems. In the past you have said that this is mostly due to time/budget constraints, but could you talk about this in terms of innovation?

Other way to ask more or less same question: Is removing features from galciv 2 and then putting them back in later in expansions going to affect the overall amount of innovation over the lifetime of the product in a negative way?

also: how important is it to "borrow" ideas form competitors to stay competitive in the genre?

Yes, i understand the business reasons behind these decisions, time, money and resources are limited so choices have to be made. But i would like to hear something about this subject from a game design and innovation perspective. Like, what reasoning does a game developer use to say "we are going to cut this" instead of saying "we are going to overhaul this to make it fun", if resources weren't a issue. 

Will there be an anomaly than spans time rather than space, where any ship or a fleet of ships would come across it, disappear, and show up again in a later turn?

I'm probably beating a dead horse here, what are the chances of implementing hot-seat multiplayer?

Wasn't there going to be a series of guides and introductions into galciv economics? Talk about that for a bit, something new and innovative. (please)

DARCA.

It is actually Friday the 25th, not 24th   Had me confused for a second. Talking about the balance between innovating and staying true to what Gal Civ is sounds great.

My question: I am really interested in knowing if there are going to be changes to the fog of war on the map...I find myself disliking the grey fog more and more, really hoping it ends up looking a little more interesting.

Yes, I would also like to know the time table of other races, minor, or major.  I'm assuming this will be late beta, however, I would think that maybe a minor race or two may help to see how they interact with the major.

Any plans to smooth out cultural borders?  Or will they stay sharp lines...?

Right now the Gal Civ 3 alpha puts quite a strain on my mid-range PC whenever I play. To what extent do you plan on optimizing the game?

Suggestion for the build queue: have the checkbox be "repeat queue". If you want the same ship you just put one in the queue and check repeat. It would also give you the option of "build 3 escorts, then a carrier, then repeat".

This podcast begs the question...can a ship be too shiny?

Also, do I see a proper mini map now?  Or is it still like Civ V where it starts close up?  I'd rather be able to control the mini map zoom.