Will AAR be part of 0.65 or will 0.65 still be alpha?

Excellent news @frogboy. Looking forward to testing it.

I am not sure a pop-up will be the best way to go once we’re late game with more battles.

Perhaps a hotkey and a prominent UI element showing its status of on/off or a options menu toggle might be more comfortable and less frustrating.

I would not be looking forward to have to keep clicking away a popup telling me a battle is about to start and wether I want to see it or not.

On the other hand, if the popup would present valuable statistics about the battle upfront and then offers me to see the battle in detail if I so choose, it might be less annoying and rather functional instead.

So just bumping this because i asked in discord? is the battle viewer part of 0.70?

No there's not a battle viewer yet.

A (full screen) battle viewer makes sense if you actually have tactical contol over the battles. Which would be cool for resolving key strategic battles where a lot is at stake. Less important battles you leave then at auto-resolve, not unlike Total War series.

If there is no tactical control over battles, however, then I would make the battle viewer optional. Because some players still want to fully view their designs at work that they've spent so many hours in. And others couldn't be bothered to be held up by a 3D animation show they can't control.

On my wishlist is to have a full battle viewer displayed on 2nd epic monitor.  This way you can keep clicking around the main map during battles. If you use a lot of custom ships the battle viewer is great!

I think that would be great. I'd put Battle Chatter in the same place I'd put a Ship Designer, Battle Viewer and Tactical Battles, which I say again, are great ideas BTW, In an RTS/RPG game.

My approach to 4X ie the Role I'm Playing in GalCiv is:

I'm the Evil Overlord. I've just appointed Johnny Bluenose, who had a traumatic childhood and therefore has great anger in him (and a great Resolve stat, too!), as my Minister of Warfare/Galactic Domination, that kind of role... So it's his job to show me the latest, greatest battlecruiser his minions have designed and how it went against the Drengin Laser Fleet 2. It's also his role to determine how best to use that ship in combat and sign-off on any improvements/changes that the battlecruiser might need. As far as I'm concerned, even if Johnny's ship-designing minions are idiots (for listening to his ideas), I'm not going to rock on up to Doofus & Sons Shipbuilders for The Blondini Race Inc and take over their jobs. I'm just going to fire or execute (or maybe both in a swift one-two!) Johnny Bluenose and get someone else in as Minister.

In comparison, I feel it's logical to have a say in what gets researched as that research will effect my Civilization as a whole and I'm not the one spending hours/however long doing the research. Whereas I'm spending hours fiddling with just where the laser should go etc (Or was when I used the Ship Designer in GalCiv2, I guess it's changed in GalCiv4...)

While I'm on a rant, I could compromise: Keep the Ship Designer, bring in the Battle Viewer and maybe even have Tactical Battles but get rid of Jeff!! Wir mussen die Mowlings ausrotten!! I enjoy snarky-funny races, but funny-funny races just don't fit GalCiv for moine (as they say in Australian sport).

I think one of the reasons why you need something like a battle viewer is people who play this game love designing their own ships from scratch. If you don't reward the player for all their time spent creating these ships by displaying it in all its glory you remove the incentive to even use the ship design tool. The reason why people skipped past the battle viewer in past iterations of this game is you wouldn't see anything new as the game progressed. One of the main objectives of any game developer should always be to look for opportunities to entertain the audience, you can do that here but you always have to introduce something new for the audience to see or do otherwise it can become redundant and people will just skip past it. An example would be if there are 10 different beam weapons upgrades there should be 10 different beam weapon animations, along with 10 different types of explosions. Plumes of grey smoke , pieces ripped off of hulls spinning out of control, fires raging, acid melting metal, boarding parties etc. Fleets that have a commander you could have one time special abilities introduced where you can press a button and release an emp charge or shield buff or teleport to a different part of the screen. If you want players  use this feature you must constantly incentivize  them by always introducing something new to see or do. I don't have any stats to back this up but I always feel that game companies that invest in this approach leads to better sales in the end, so if the time and money is properly spent on this feature you will be rewarded. 

ps. I love how the game is developing so far keep up the great work!

that would also be a great feature to implement. I think there is a lot of creative potential here. It can be much more than a way to just review statistical information on how a battle transpired.

this game needs better space battles period what there is, is not good enough. 

Oh I really like Endless Space 2, haven't played that in a while. Ya even that simple combat system would be great to see in Gal Civ 4. I doubt we will see anything that "advanced" though   

Happy Friday !!!