1 - My computer is turrible; that's the main issue, a Surface Pro 3 with i5 and 4 GB of RAM. Thankfully I can play however...
2 - My computer has problems once I start playing and zoomed in with the graphics. Overall I've played a gigantic map with over 60 races all fine so long as my computer is zoomed out to reduce the overhead on the graphics.
So my question is if there's a way to keep the graphics in a low setting mode for the world or galactic map overlay to avoid the zoom in of death scenario which can cause my game to crash? (similar to how you can zoom out in Elemental for low graphics mode)
Hopefully I'm making enough sense but any feedback on this would be appreciated! (also it solves the problem with the game loading on low end hardware and I can still watch my glorious fleet die like moths to a flame... 
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Thanks in advance!