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?

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.

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?

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. 

Still waiting on the YouTube version.

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.  

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

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

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

Thanks ID!