There seems to be a bug with Mountain Entities on earth & ice planets. Sometimes the entire planet seems to get converted to them and they use a huge amount of ram. ie 3 ice planets 4, 2, 2 first time it plays fine using a few GB of ram, then next time the same map converts to a mountain covered map and RAM usage goes to >6GB of RAM, which tends to cause a whole bunch of players to crash out of the game or Hang there computer. One of the realm guys seemed to be having this alot not sure if he's got around to reporting it or was able to reproduce it regularly.
I'll be excitedly awaiting those updates! I've been having very similar issues which makes joining some games impossible and the rest extremely slow. It would also be nice to add a status display (when you add the progress bar) that would tell the user what the game is currently doing. Also, thanks for explaining how the game start/load process works. As a programmer it's always fun to learn more about how PA works.
