pbem hosting hell!

[Mordante]

Hmmmm, epic pbem game conclusion, large fleet battles, thousands of fighters ...

Just how long could it take the hosting program to produce a set of turn files from a complex endgame battle across many systems with thousands of involved ships?

I ask because I have just returned from setting SEIV to do the hosting (taking 2 hours to watch a DVD) and still returning to find the progress bar on 72%!

The program appeared to be working still - the mouse moved, the hd light kept flickering but the progress bar did not appear to have moved from where I left it.

Could this take days?

Personally, I suspect the fighter defence stack bug which could create multiple redundant pointless combats with fighter Groups unable to hit each other.

Any hints on how to speed up hosting?

Any word on the patch (to resolve the fighter issues)?

Ah well, leaving my laptop to labour on overnight to hope the hosting will be done in the morning....