Bunch more bugs
And observations
Without further ado, I give you my list o' bugs--
1. This is related: the borders and ownership for the main player (at least when I'm humans) don't show up on either the main map (for borders) or the mini-map (when I click ownership).
2. THe game calls me and my empire by the wrong name sometimes. The emperor name seems to be entirely messed up. No matter what I put into the custom name space, I'm called Alan Bradley. The empire name is ok, except for on the Choose Opponents screen, it seemed to call me Terran Alliance even though I was the Terran Federation.
3. Humans still don't start with the right techs. I started another new game and didn't have Hyperdrive (and hence no Colony Ship) until I finished researching it. This is not the only occurence.
4. Saving takes too long (admittedly, this could be because I'm playing on a laptop...)
5. Graph in the United Planets council is wrong (assuming it's supposed to show relative voting power -- it's just not working and you probably know that).
That's it for now. Great work so far. I love the space battles, even though I've only seen 1 on 1 fights!
It should be easy to fix, though 
