Faster Launch, Lighter Leech Raids and Smoother Frames

Performance

• The game reaches the main menu several seconds sooner: no fixed fake loading delays, sound starts earlier, and settings and Workshop blueprints load while the world streams in
• The startup splash has no Unity logo and uses the loading screen's navy, so launch goes straight from one to the other
• The autosave hitch is shorter
• The Technology and Fleet windows reopen about twice as fast
• Big Leech raids cost a fraction of what they did each tick
• The starfield sky uses about a third less GPU and looks the same
• The fog of war uses about a third less GPU when zoomed out, with no visible change, and buildings feeding a full or stopped belt do less work each tick
• Smoother frames on big bases: less waiting between simulation steps, fewer jobs per tick, and parked or idle buildings skip more work every frame
• Hovering items with a window open no longer rebuilds the whole interface every frame, and the tutorial's red alert frame no longer redraws the HUD
• On CPUs with many cores the game no longer keeps idle threads busy waiting