Rhelamos

I find it advisable to build up economics and do your best to make friends with your immediate neighbor. When you get an economic powerhouse going betray your name, take the galaxy, and station fleets at the Star and wormholes to choke out enemies entering for an offensive. At that point finish up your research as fast as possible, build up a fleet, and take it on the offensive. Once you have the immediate Galaxy it's a synch to choke and dominate.

So upon entering a new game there is just an insane barrage of awful stuttering. We're talking up to 15-20 seconds of frozen play while the music continues on in the background. It looks and sounds (hard drive) like stuff is loading, but I have no idea what since the game has only just started. Also, takes about 5 minutes to load a game. Does the same thing during battles. Say every 30 seconds or so there will be a ridiculously long pause followed by 50+ fps play as if nothi