So On the bigger maps won`t you be able to research all three Ideology trees???Also how is Ideology different from Good,.. Neutral,.. and Evil???And how many different colonization events will there be?? or are there only Two??

Thanks!!

Nasty! 

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THIS. OMAHGAWD THIS.

Also, can't help but notice I'm not playing this week :C lol

will there be a option that limits you to 1 ideology path vs being able to get all 3 at once? Both options have their appeal, so it would be cool to be able to toggle.

Ideology: What are all the ways one will gain ideology? Is it just going to be settling planets / anomalies. Will there be ideology gained by conquering planets, or ways of diplomacy.

Planetary Assaults: Are we going to be given more options when assaulting a planet?

Nebula / Dust Clouds: What are the other features, if any, going to be attached to the nebula or dust clouds? I believe you mentioned something about a resource node inside the nebula that we will be able to harvest with a star-base. Will there be any strategic changes to these nebulas?

Asteroids: You mentioned unique resources are being added to Gal Civ, will these unique resources be manifested in surrounding asteroids?

Shipyard (ship editor): From my understanding the ship-editor works similar to Gal Civ 2, basically you have a large number of modules / objects that you piece together to manifest your coolness on a ship... will modders be able to add ship hull parts to the editor and will there be a modable filter option for these parts? i.e. Someone creates a set of Organic Hull types and someone else creates a set of Flying Pink Bunny Parts, could we create custom categories to organize these sets into their own categories?

Ships / Shipyard: In Gal Civ there were animated parts that show up on the map, will there again be animated ship-parts? How deep will the animation be allowed? Will one be able to create an animated piston to show up on the ships, or will it be limited to rotations, like before?

Combat Animations: When the combat animations are in place, are the ships going to just explode and a few pieces flying around denoting dead ship or will we see small space people flying outside the ships as well? i.e. how detailed will these explosions be, could we see a preliminary animation in the vault?

Multiplayer Limits: I noticed in a forum post that the maximum human players will be hard set to 4. What is the thinking behind this? Why a limit of 4, not 6 or 8? Will this limit be changed in a future expansion?

Sneak Peek: Could you list one unique resource to the game and what planned effects it will have on gameplay?

Black-Holes: Will the player be able to create black-holes? Will the black-holes be set anywhere or limited to changing a star?

Galaxy: What features may we expect on the strategic maps? Could we expect to find fixed worm-holes and not special anomaly ones, but a fixed wormhole of some kind?

edit: Yes I know this weeks topic is idealogy, but sometimes Paul gets off topic

Well, wont be able to see it live this time.

On a side note is there another patch coming anytime in the near future or before the beta?

I may not be able to watch the stream live, but in any case, the following are the questions I'd like answered:

Question 1: Are there plans to have more than 3 trees?

This is probably my biggest concern regarding ideologies. I think the value of distinctive ideological choices diminishes in direct proportion to how accessible and unrestricted they are--or in other words, if by mid-to-late game everyone can have every ideology, there is no advantage and no strategic purpose for the different ideologies. If certain ideological choices rule out others, this makes those choices carry a lot more meaning and strategic importance.

While I definitely agree with what has already been said (that the trees won't be exclusive as a whole (i.e. few civilizations will have purely one ideology)), I am curious if some parts of each tree will be exclusive and lock parts in the other trees.

Question 2a: Will certain elements in the trees be mutually exclusive (i.e. will certain choices rule out others)?

Question 2b: If not, why not?

Hoping it isn't just colonization/anomaly events--would love to hear insights regarding what kind of events will force ideological choices as well as if there will be events caused by ideological choices.

Question 3: What events will force ideological choices?

Question 4a: Will our choices result in random events based on our ideologies?

Question 4b: If so, what kind of events might this include?

I agree--though if the id100 document in the vault is implemented, I think the trees will definitely feel more filled out and thought through. The trees outlined there include 4 tiers, a total of 18 choices (per tree), and each would require just under 1000 points to complete.

This would be very cool. I haven't found a political party tab anywhere in the game so far, so perhaps things like technocracy could be implemented as ideology instead.

Yeah, political parties seem to be also missing so far. Hope the game was not "streamlined" here and they are not gone for good... :-/

glad to see the Snathi planned for DLC.  I want more evil squirrels.

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that user name alt to have you rolling on the floor laughing!!,... O Yeah ROTFL!!! 

any was Thanks for the INFO!! this week it was helpful.I`m looking forward for the rest of the streams. and the next Alpha release too!! 

Is there going to be a Youtube version much like Stream #2?