1. Could we have a version of the Cultural Preservation Council UP resolution(planets no longer flip under influence) in treaty form?

2. Will you modify terraforming before release? I think it could do with some improvements.

3. Will we able to listen to the soundtrack using Steam Music Player?

4. Will civilization specific techs be tradable in the next beta version?

5. Will we able to make our own Minor Factions?

6. Will there be an easy way to select Minors as Majors and vice-versa?

Isint the point of civ specific techs that they are not tradable?

Show us invasions and political parties!

What are the plans for a colony overview / management screen?

(you know, where all of your planets show up in a scrolling list a la GC2)

Similar to GC2, I would love it if you could see Social & Military projects from this screen (even modify?)--though how it would work with Starports might be tricky.

Finally, it would be awesome if you could use this screen to select the planet specific economic distribution for groups of planets a time.

(perhaps by setting a Governor?)

What is the status of Diplomacy options? 

What I mean is will we get more diplomacy options such as asking one AI to trade/not trade, or raid/wage war upon another ai and so on? 

Can we have more transparency on how to improve our status with each AI? For example I ask (and convince)  the Drengin to cease its war with Altaria, I expect Altaria to give me a boost in relations with them. 

Great job, I am not able to attend today. 

What are your specific plans to combat the problem of constructor and starbase micro?

What are you doing to fix or change all things that prevent proper production and research overflow.

I have couple questions based on custom race portraits in multiplayer. If we want to import custom made custom faction portraits for our alien leaders what pixel resolution do they have to be, what extension file (.gif, .png, .jpg, ect...) and also would other players be able to see our imported custom race portraits in multiplayer?

I would love to show off an imported alien leader I designed myself for the diplomacy screen and league of planets in an online game.

Thanks for answering my questions.

Regarding terraforming, I once made some modifications regarding it along with some notes, these are for Beta 3. Others have given their opinion here.

My problem with terraforming at the moment is that until Omega Terraforming it's not very useful, and I don't use the ones before Omega Terraforming because I might use them on tiles that can be terraformed with Omega Terraforming. Also it is rather hard to plan in advance what tiles will I terraform so sometimes I wake up with colonies where I have to destroy most buildings and start from scratch. 

And Biosphere Manipulator, specific to Altarians, is unique per colony, has a higher LandPercentageMin than Soil Enhancement and has a very high manufacturing cost, so it is next to useless.

The Snathi exposed to the naked eye. That is a lot for one stream!  

Love the Iconian Ships, very organic, like orca/jellyfish hybrids. Not quite as sure about the changes to the way iconians themselves look though... Still psyched for the game's release though!

Good stream seems like the game is coming along.

I like the updates to the battle system and the rolls etc.  I just hope that AI is able to incorporate that.. As it stands now the AI just builds to 70% log cap of the biggest thing they can build and throw it at you non stop which is predictable, boring and makes for crappy battles.

If the AI will actually make balanced/diverse useful fleets to fight against this will be a lot of fun. I hope this is the case because the spawned battles where both fleets were diverse and mixed with different "classes" looked a lot better than what we have in beta4. If we get all the tools shown in the stream and the AI still just pumped out the largest crap ship they can make and send them at you 1 to3 at a time.. Well then multiplayer may be fun.