As soon as i put up the large recon Satellite the game slows down a lot for me! like 10fps! Just cause then I can see every single troop, It's even slow ehen i justmove my camera to another planet. I hope this gets heavily optimzted soon becasue I can't even see the possible galatic mode being playable with it like this.
The problem is its a lot to process once the vision is revealed. I think the satellite should do a gradual visual ring that expands out to its full effect sort of like the Forged alliance cybran watch tower that gave visual contact in an expanding radius...not sure if it can be as easy as a function of a warm up time or somthing.
I believe that this is caused by the fact that your own computer only has to render what you can see, so removing the fog of war greatly increases the load on the GPU and the network connection. Hopefully this will improve as the game gets more optimised.
maybe the game could begin loading the necessary data already if the satellite is at 80% of completion or something like that. Doing it in the background without the player noticing it.