Game's Start Should Wait Till Player Loads

My computer is not the fastest but once I am in game, its is playable. Regardless, loading the system takes awhile and when it finally loads in, I am starting halfway into the game where the AI already controls 1/3 of the planet. Needless to say, I usually lose. Instead of just automatically starting, the game should wait till I load in ... especially since I am only playing against the AI. This may need to be patched unless there is some obscure option ...

This will probably be another polish feature for single player games.

Soon.

There is a timeout for starting point selection. If you have not done so 2-3 minutes after the game started you get a random spot. It only hit me once so far.
The obvious reason is to prevent afk'lers, undecided or greifers from stopping the match from starting.

I can see why they kept it in the current singleplayer game:
You are using up a server slot. If you don't plan on actually spawning, just die already.

If your computer needs more then that timeout chances are you are way under minimum requirements/something else is stopping it from working properly.
With offline mode you can propably just define that timeout time however you want (inlcuding unlimited). You are only taking up space on your computer after all.