Has any of you send your DB to Steve? I would do that for one... .
Also it should be mentioned in the main bug thread because I don't think that Steve is reading a lot outside of it at the moment.
Yes Eka did here
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=10905.msg125552#msg125552Also, I saw him following up on that but Steve was asking for more information regarding it if I am not wrong. I haven't seen a follow up on that.
It is also true that since only a couple of people had problems with Slowdown so there could be other reasons for that.
The 1.8 is stable and allowing longer gameplays and I guess we will find out very soon if there are long term issues with performances and turn processes. There are quite a few 5-sec increments issues with NPR as they are not functioning properly leading to many Obj Fix bugs, but maybe once we all get there (or at least a vast majority) Steve will may be able to optimize the code or find where (if any) the problem is.