(still present) Game does not stop running in background upon exit. (Force close will sometimes cause Windows Explorer to crash)
they really dont want us to stop playing .. come on just one more turn
(new) very slow game pace and tech tree seem to be not applying or need to be adjusted as with 15 colonies I'm completing techs in 2-4 turns (too fast for very slow)
i noticed in a slow game that i made that i made it applied a -50% manufacturing/ research penalty to all my planets since this was counted just like any other research manufacturing bonus it was easily cancelled out by a couple of improvements/relics
a much better solution would be to actually provide a global increase to manufacturing costs/ research costs rather then a 50% malice which gets easily cancelled out