I think you mean 9/12 (September 12th), not 7/12 (July 12th). It would be nice to hear the next streams topic sooner.

Questions for stream:

I know that you have mentioned commanders in the game. Would a commander in a fleet be able to increase the logistical capacity of that fleet?

Will commander players come with a unique ship for themselves? Some extra visual way to represent a commander in the fleet, or on the visualized battle screen?

What skills should we expect for the commanders in the game?

Will they (the commanders) be able to die in battle, or are they able to escape heroically from any battle by pressing the Omega 13 device (Galaxy quest reference), and open a wormhole to the home planet that will take 5 turns before they arrive back on the map?

Have you finished working on the explosion effects of the ships, and will we get a preview of this in the founders vault?

When will we expect to see moon bonuses implemented in the game? Or are they just automatic bonuses and do not require a special building? (I'd vote for building special moon project buildings, moon farms, moon mining, moon research stations, or moon defenses)

Don't anomalies spawn randomly throughout the game.

1) Are there plans to bring the little white arrows back between tiles/improvements on the planet screen?

2) When can we expect to see minor races? How many will there be? Will they have unique ship designs? Animated or static images for them?

3) Will colonization events have specific artwork corresponding to them or will it just remain the view of the planet. If it remains the view of the planet can we at least see a representation of the specific planet rather than a generic one?

Currently when you select anomalies they are generated one time. There was some discussion about having them re spawn during the game but as far as I remember Paul was on the fence.

I for one would prefer if they re spawn especially on smaller maps.

Regarding Custom Races:

When creating a custom race will we be able to assign its home planet?   This would be especially useful for those of us who have been fortunate enough (as well as being willing to shell out 99 bucks) to have been able to name a sun.  I would love to be able to have one of the planets of my sun be my custom race's home planet.

Thanks,

Don "Raelalt" Freeman

Yeah, I tend to stay with historical periodical writing. I did learn to use an old printing press and found it easier to switch the date when using month first and day next due to mechanical reasons of setting the type. For that reason, I will probably never change. As a mathematician we simply say that,

    "It doesn't matter the notation you use, as long as you define the notation that you are using."

But to keep the thread on topic...

Will we be able to mod the number of ships visible in a fleet? Currently if you group 3 ships together you see them all, will we have the ability to show groups of 10 visibly where one can see each ship, possibly using a vertical stacking of the ships? I know there are limitations to prevent this on extremely large maps, but the large but not soooo large maps these restrictions might be lifted. Especially during a hand crafted campaign map, we should be able to accomplish this.

Would we be able to order how our ships stack in a single tile? I find that this might serve an important multiplayer role, as to dupe the other player into thinking that there is just a weak stack of ships, when in actuality there is a powerful ship hiding among the mix?

I agree with that statement, although, the information given to the commander is that about the formation and how they are set up. So, a commander casually looking at this would misinterpret the correct information given about formation of the ships. If you want to rearrange how the formation of the ships are than how they are actually formed, then that is the enemy commanders prerogative, and I wouldn't oppose that. Especially since the current set-up is how one attacks a stack, the enemy can only attack the top fleet at the moment (AI can choose). So, in its current state it is not just for duping the other player, but actual formation of the ships.

eviator Are doing benevolent?  If you work to ideology of persuasion (all planets in your zone flip) 

It's a a tiny galaxy, not enough events to get ideology points. It's also not really an answer. If it was about winning the game I would have sent transports 390 turns ago.

Another question:

This one is for Paul directly... Paul I watched your let's play tiny galaxy game... It was wildly entertaining and extremely insightful! Can we get another of you playing on a huge map? Or better yet how about you and Adam playing each other in a multiplayer match each with separate isolated streams so we can watch each of you playing each other? It would be a blast to watch both sides, perspectives and play styles...

I mentioned this in one of the prior weeks post but didn't get answered, now another post by someone else in the forums has asked the question...  Will there be binary star systems as I know early on there was some talk about this but, this is currently not in the game nor, have we heard anything about it?

So... how about those Founder's Vault updates?  My daughter has doubled in age since the last one it was so long ago.