Sounds awesome!!!  HOpe you have fun while doing it!!

I got a list, where do we start?! 

So where can we see these streams?

What happened to Beta optin 5.2?

Where is my overlord patch for just being me? (ok, that one was over the top, but if you want to give me one....)

Galactic Civilizations III - Beta 5 patch 2 changelog

Reply #37 Derek Paxton (Stardock)  

Galactic Civilizations III - Beta 5 patch 2 changelog

Reply #40 Derek Paxton (Stardock)  (even though not directed at you)

One day more, another day, another destiny. This never ending road to Calvary....

Girlfriend? My wife should be making ME steaks. I am nothing but the martyr in sack cloth and ashes! Ok, maybe don't ask HER if that is true, but it is!

I hope you will fix the exploit of getting and entire races ships in exchange for peace or whatever else is convenient.

Well I have a pretty conprehensive list in the oyher post. One thing to remember is colonise. If you have stellar cartiography you can send ships to stars that way,  otherwise you have to explore with your colony ship. Colonise every planet you find. If you.want stop after you have your percent of the map. If there is a resource build a constructure,  and then build a starbase. Once you build a starbase wait untill you are either at war,  or the colonise phase is over. After either criteria is met then finish upgrading starbase.

As far as planetimprovement your aI has to pay attention to resources,  and adjancy bonuses to build apptopriate buildings. The colonisation events are important on this you need to keep track of research,  production,  or starshIp bonuses. untill you are done with the colonisation phase you don't have to worry about you technological capital, economic capital,  or polotical capital. Once the colonisation phase is over add up your production, and research bonuses  from colonIsatIon events tImes class addIng the bonuses from the research and productIon tIles. Not including ither  tIles. Compare with class. Whichever is higher gets your technological capital. A technological capital gets all your research,  and manufacturing bonus buildings even the manufacturing capital. On the rest of the tiles build factories unless there Is a research or some other bonus. As far as percrntage produxtIon bonus buildings don't build if it is more constructive to build a factory instead.

Now on the next capital you are either count morale or food bonuses withever is higher after added to class of planét,  and then cimpare to other class of planets minusing other bonus tiles to find the next highest class. Once you find this is ehere you build ypur economic,  snd political capital. If your approval is below 50 percent then build morale building otherwise build farm. 

The only exception to thisis your planet if it has a bonus on it. If this appears on your planet you should build all you planet starship bonuses a power plant,  and factories.

Always reserve your third biggest planet for building trade goods... while you are waiting build factories and bonus buildings. This planrt may change as you colonise other planets. If the player builds a trade good,  or galactic achievement then build one.

Make the fourth for super projects.

Any research or production planets notincluded in the above. If research buiId research bonus buildings,  and factories. If production build production bonus buildings,  and factoties.

On every other planet type build starport four factories, snd a morale resource.after this seeif income is more than expence If this is so then compare your research-production-economic-farming to equal each other. If expenses are more than income then build your best economic building. You can use sliders to fix this,  so as to not to go into the negative to prevent the treasury from falling below 0. Don't lrt the population cap of building farms go above 40 billion. Only upgrade buildings if can afford to. Never terraform tiles unless you don't have sny empty one's. 

If the yor getsincrease by manufacturing max out population first.

If yor build five starbases per influence,  othetwise if anybody else build 12.

In diplomacy the ai should never trade away planetsit has wonders on,  or anything above a 15 , and onIy class 10 -15 if they have a lot of them. Never trade survey ships. Don't trade warships to the point it causes a lower military rating than who you are trading with. Never trade with anyone you are hostile with,  or at war with. Never trade techs that don't give you an advantage like a better unit.

Now as far as researching you should take about turns to reseaech It unless there are no other techs. Now your best techs are your bonuses. Go for surver pretty quickly. Priorities military, morale,  economics,  research,  diplomacy,  governments,  and population growth. You don't need to research universal translator,  or any diplomacy techs for that matter.

When hostile towards others you should build against their stats ships. This still works like this at war. 

Now thats amazing! This is the kinda dedication that made gal civ 1 & 2 amazing, as I'm certain 3 will be! Looking forward to this though I doubt I'll be free this weekend, Ill defiantly watch any recordings.

Prevent the AI from colonizing planets deep in another person's borders, you just give that race free planets when influence swaps you.

Mostly focus on colony building as admiralWIllyWiber pointed out

Also diplomacy as been noted all over the place with the ai making silly trades. Especially military ships/tech. Stop declaring war when we can't reach each other, etc.

A side note, fix scoring. The ai seems to think colony ships, constructors and freighters count as military. It seems to make the ai think it is more powerful than it really is.

That ought to keep you busy

This is a great idea.  There was a ship designer stream using Steam.  That worked okay.  I wouldn't trust the twitch set up; I have had issues attending the dev streams using that from the client side myself.  Then again, those can get archived.

However you do it, pick a time and place and those who feel the deep geeky need will join you.  Make sure you give us some advance notice so that those who need to can login or do other first time setup as needed.

Question: If you make an AI that we can't tell is an AI in Multiplayer, is that a variation/subset of the Turing test? 

I'd like to stop by Twitch or something. The steam streaming is good too but I think you still need to be in the steam beta to get it.

I definitely see a lot of issues with the AI.  The challenge isn't noticing things, the challenge is making them NOT do that without putting in an IF THEN statement into the code.  You want the AI to calculate this stuff organically otherwise you end up with a scripted AI.

Brad, 

I would like to be part of your discussions. I am going to do some hard core playing all weekend as well. Reddit is great idea. Is there a link you can direct us?

http://www.reddit.com/r/GalCiv3/comments/3258sa/dev_weekend_hangout_galciv_iii/