Originally Posted by John Channing

It's not the save games as much as the length of your current patrol.

In conversations with one of the developers he made it clear that the longer you are out, the longer the load times are as the game has to load every event that has occured on that patrol every time you start it. So if you are in the habit of going for a lot of refits and only returning to port occasionaly for a new mission you are looking at longer and longer load times.

If you return to port and start a new patrol the load time will decrease dramatically, but immediatly start to lengthen as you continue on.

Oh, and having a man's computer helps too!

JCC