I am, ever so slowly, rolling up my game. I'm on only a huge abundant all map, and it just takes forever to roll up the AI...The problem is two-fold. Slow ships speeds and interface problems. I seem to not be getting ship build notifications on most turns, so I have to troll my planets (400+) looking for any that have ships in orbit to find my new builds. I am also having significant numbers of ships lose their autopilots, so then I get to cycle through every ship with movement points and re-issue autopilot commands to all the "lost" ships. I used to have the happen in a non-repeatable way every now and then in DL, but not like this. I think it's worse because of the pure numbers of ships I have moving (due to slower ships, I have more in transit)...Ugh, talk about painful micromanagement. This game is taking me significantly longer than an equivalent DL game.
Thankfully there are only two races left. I simply need more transports and I can finish them. But at this rate, who knows how long that will take?