You beat me to it, Killer. I was coming here to say that, from what I've read in the patch thread, we're going to likely need to punt this game. Given that it takes two weeks to play one turn anyway, that's no big loss.
If one or two of you who will play quickly and honorably want to start a new non-team game in place of this one, let me know and I'll be happy to talk about the parameters with you.