If there is progress on the AI, can you show us examples?  Could you run a soak and show us things like improvement adjacencies on planets, starbase placement, fleet creation, or any other indicators of new behaviors?

Will we be able to select specific Minor Races or just indicate the number of them to be included?

In Beta 5, will carriers still be confined to using beam-weapon fighters? If not, will we be able to design the fighters that our carriers load or simply select 'missile' or 'gun' fighters?

Will we finally have production and research overflow in Beta 5?  Will the production overflow be multi-item-per-turn? (there's not much point giving shipyards multiple planets if they can't build more than 1 ship per turn)

so a few questions on the diplomacy viewer

1) will allied races cluster together? ( i mean races allied together but not allied to you) 

2) will races who are either friendly or getting pissed at you move further or closer on the diplomacy screen?

3) can we recentre the diplomacy screen on another race ? To see how they view alliances. 

4) for diplomacy will different races have different positive and negative values? for example a xenophobic race that views open borders and trading as negatives instead of positives.

questions regarding the ai 

1) will there be ways to communicate with the ai rather then straight trade ( i want to do this and its going to annoy you so heres something you want so dont declare war on me)

2) will the ai have some long term memory if i have decent standings with the ai for 200 turns and then dip below unfriendly on turn 210 will it declare war or will it simmer either try and restore our relations or allow me to restore relations? 

3) will we be able to trade for turn limited items? ten credits perturn for ten turns?

4) can we ask the ai for handouts without being seen as threatening ( can i borrow a cup of sugar)?

2 questions for the Dev stream:

1. In GalCiv 3's Intro Cinematic, the planet Earth is a Shield World protected from Dregi invasion by a gigantic energy barrier. Is this represented in game? Is it a tech or wonder we can research in multiplayer that offers our home world a huge boost to planetary defence from invasion troops? I would love to see what a planet looks like shielded by a barrier in galaxy view!

2. Any chance on custom hue color picking on beams/shells/missiles or will all be the same color? It would be useful to identify who's firing what if both combating fleets are using the same exact weapons as well as add more imersion in the combat viewer.

In the last update the research screen was made to be full screen which was very ugly and waste of space especially in high resolutions.

Also the cute robot appears everytime which is annoying rather direct access to research screen.

Any change you will fix soon? I have stopped playing the game because of this.

did i miss it or did they just ignored my question?^^

Did I miss it? When is Beta 5 being released? Next Thursday I hope!

The only clue I heard on the B5 release was, to paraphrase, "As soon as we feel okay about it".

I have been saying first week of April all along. I will stick with that, and not be surprised if it slips to the second week.

I am as anxious as anyone and I am probably just trying to avoid disappointment. If it comes out sooner I will be as happy as a dead pig in sunshine.

Quoting Franco fx,

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The only clue I heard on the B5 release was, to paraphrase, "As soon as we feel okay about it".

I have been saying first week of April all along. I will stick with that, and not be surprised if it slips to the second week.

I am as anxious as anyone and I am probably just trying to avoid disappointment. If it comes out sooner I will be as happy as a dead pig in sunshine.

Thank god that junk food and beer have a very late expiration date...

Meanwhile grab worlds of magic from steam: modern master of magic remake, entered v1.0.

not just manuever bonuses, but also chance to miss per hull size.