Well, I have finally started a new game with 1.05 but unfortunately I chose simultaneous mode. SE V is
unplayable in simultaneous mode! I literally cannot play more than one turn at a time without exiting and restarting the game. It will inevitably crash if you try to process more than one turn at a time. Is it this bad for everyone? No wonder people are pissed off.
At 60 turns in, I've decided to give up because it's so tedious to play by saving and exiting after each turn. So, with only 60 turns to go on, I can only give a slight review. Even early in the game the AI is now shockingly efficient. I was struggling respond to what the AI was doing the whole time. Part of that might be my unfamiliarity with simultaneous mode
but I also selected the option to make all scores visible and could see that I was never number one in the list. AIs were always building more ships, settling more planets. If I were able to continue this game I suspect I would lose.