Nice. 

I actually do not have any pressing questions...lol.

What is the next 'Big' update and can Paul kinda tell us what is in it? (1.1?)

Can we have ideology costs scale to habitable planets/# of factions. On smaller maps, you can only get 5 or so planets. Therefore you have to build the centers that give you an ideology point a turn, but it still takes forever to build up the cost of a new ideology.

In short, smaller maps scale down and larger maps could scale costs up.

So a large map with 8 factions would have lower costs than a large with 4 factions. Uncommon or rare planets would also scale down while abundant would scale up.

I think everyone beat them over the head about the star reduction enough and they will raise it. Perhaps not as many as before, but more. What they really need is a new option of stars per region or average hexes apart, something like that.

Actually I have a bunch of questions:

1) Did you (the dev-team) ever consider to implement a system similar to the shipyard sponsoring system BUT for star bases so that...

-) ... the spaming of star bases stops as each planet may only support up to a maximum of 2-3 star bases and therefore each starbase means much more

-) ... an anchoring/unanchoring mechanic can be added to the star bases so that you can tweak the positioning later on, which is especially interesting when you couldn't reach some of the resources before but thanks to range extension upgrades you can, so you don't have to build an all new starbase/tear the existing one down.

2) Is it intended that the biosphere manipulator of the Altarians just gives 1 extra tile?

Every other race gets like tons of additional tiles with their terraforming upgrades, but the Altarians only get like max 5 additional tiles in sum with ALL terraforming upgrades built for some reason, which later on proves quite of a difference when every other faction/race has maxed their planets to oblivion.

3) It may sound like a Tibetan prayer wheel but what happened to the rifts?

I would find that an interesting option to have, as long as nobody is forced to have them.

It is done. They will edit the announcement to say when it is up on the youtube channel

Updated with replay.

That was great!