Dev Stream Tomorrow (Friday, April 11) at Noon PDT
http://www.twitch.tv/stardock
GalCiv3 Forums
Lead designer Paul Boyer and I are broadcasting live to the Internet at large again tomorrow, playing some Galactic Civilizations III and taking your questions. Catch it at 12pm Pacific time (3pm Eastern, 9pm CET for our friends across the ocean) on the official Stardock Twitch channel.
This may be a silly idea, but since the internal build doesn't have anything super-exciting to show right now (it's just bug fixes so far, but we have BIG PLANS. PLANS SO BIG YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW), I'd like to get an Elite Founder to join in for a multiplayer match with Paul and producer Ray Bartos. That sound good to you guys? Everyone who is interested, post in here and I'll roll some dice or something to pick someone randomly.
Eternal forum shame will be visited upon the winner if s/he doesn't show up tomorrow, so please make sure you can make it if you enter 
I'll post the winner first thing tomorrow morning and PM them the info they need to sync up with us (we'll want to get connected shortly before the stream goes live, of course).
I'm also thinking that because GC3 is so freakin' huge, we should have a theme for each stream. This week's theme: Warfare. Come strapped with your questions and thoughts on anything war-related, from planetary invasions to ship battles to how the Drengin pick their targets (hint: deliciousness).
Finally, this week's stream should look and sound a whole lot better -- got some new things in and fixed up the setup so this should be a little more pro. Hopefully.
Miss last week's stream? You can catch it (and any future streams) on our Twitch channel.
See you tomorrow!
and I think am done spilling my guts and info. 
The fleet battle ship roles and configurations also sounds pretty cool. I presume the initial fighter class ships will be the ships in the carriers which would make them more relevant mid-late game (not that I ever used them myself opting for the heavy fighters as my bottom line ships in GalCivII) - if so this would be awesome because I just love some of the new default fighter class ships (e.g. Terran Guardian) and would love seeing them strafe some Drengin cruiser or dogfight with some Yor fighters... pew pew! 