I guess without a facebook, twitter, or RTSGuru acount, you cannot post questions. I wonder, however:

1) I have heard that a regular game in Rebellion starts with the player as a vanilla facion (TEC, Advent, or Vasari) and at some point must (or should, to remain competative perhaps) choose to become the Rebel or Loyalist subfactions, which have access to the unique Titans. What triggers this decision? Is is time based, or is there a balance between choosing early or later? (Perhaps choosing the Rebel/Loyal subfaction too early hurts your ecomomy, etc...)

2) This question has more to do with Diplomacy, but are there any plans to patch Diplomacy, perhaps as a promotion for Rebellion? (i.e., "Diplomacy is good, Rebellion will be twice as good!") I have not yet begun playing, but it seems that a small, miniscule, microscopic patch to some issues would do a world of good.

I truly am excited about Rebellion. I enjoyed the last Q&A, and look forward to this one. Keep up the good work, Stardock!

I heard that researching some tech (or techs) would put one on the road for one of the subfactions, but I might be wrong.

I sure hope so. The devs have noticed and have said they have fixed a number of small issues, it would be nice for them to be fixed for Diplomacy.

Yeah, I don't understand. It is the official site for the game after all. Wouldn't it be easier to go through all the Questions from 1 post from 1 site?? beats me!

Anyway, maybe if we put some words here they might just end up over there somehow, by magic.

I was wondering, so once you have done the appropriate research and your committed to either rebel or loyalist, is your original empire split in 2? So effectively what you are then playing with is half the size, ie half the amount of ships, half the amount of planets, star bases and structures etc.? If so wouldn't this leave you somewhat vulnerable to other races that have not reached that research? Does the obtaining of these "You Beaut" Titans make up for this. And what determines who gets what planets?  

Did this contain anything new? I don't think it did?

That is the old QA. They are now taking questions for a new one.

Well since its Q&A session is being hosted by RTS Guru and not Stardock/Ironclad, it makes sense to use their prefered choices in sites.

Sure it does.

RTS Guru is polling its userbase for some Q&A for Rebellion. Its news if you want a chance to ask some new questions. You could get new answers.

I asked a question already on their facebook page.

We'll see if it's answered.

Ok, fair enough,...      I just thought seems its posted here,.... but I'm just old and grumpy and behind the times ... and can't keep up with all this stuff.

Well, it has been three weeks since the deadline for questions (December 18th). I think this is good news because it means that Stardock is planning to release some important information in this second Q&A.

I am looking forward to it.

EDIT: The deadline was December 18th. Questions were sent to the developer on the 19th.

They've been answered, just need to see when they get posted now.