*off topic question*
Kael, as you seem to have some good understanding of the game's inner mechanics, do you have any clue why it occupies ~50% processor utilization, even if the player is not doing anything?
I am not talking about intra-turn, nor any unit movement or whatever.
Let's assume you have done all your stuff during your turn and you just haven't pressed RETURN yet. Still, the game occupies these 50%...
(3.6 GHz P4, 2 GB RAM, 2 SLI-6800 GS, RAID-0 stripe etc. etc. etc... should be fast enough for the game, and no, nothing is running in the background...)