In the year 2074 (from Conventional start) I ventured out into the unknown. I built a second generation gravsurvey vessel, and entered Jump Point #1 in Sol.
It took me to Alpha Centauri, where I discovered a population of Alpha Centaurans.
I set my diplomacy team to work on them.
My strenght 44 passive EM and Thermal sensors soon picked up a *lot* of alien ships, from a *lot* of different classes, and I began getting intelligence reports on them, giving me info on their speed. They did not seem to attack me though, so I let my gravsurvey ship continue it's survey work in Alpha Centauri.
Now, I pressed the 30 days turn button.. (automated turns are on)
The game processes very slowly now. Every 10 seconds (on average) the screen flashes, and the gametime progresses 1 minute.
This has been going on for 14 minutes now.
At this pace, I need to let my computer run for 5 full days, to process a 30 day turn o_0
I guess that's not normal, right?
I'm running on a 3.2 gHz dual core AMD Turion64x2, it's not brand new, but it shouldn't process turns *that* slowly, right?
What could be happening here? The alien race must be doing *something* that is making the game run in 1-minute subpulses that take 10 seconds each to process..