First let me say how happy I was to find this project. I have warm memories of playing M.U.L.E. on my dad's Atari 800 home computer as a child.

Downloaded it both on Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10. First few Training games on Windows worked great, but now having some difficulties.

If these details help, those games were well-balanced as far as resource-production. Then, still on Windows, one AI cornered the market on food production. As the other AIs and I ran out of time to act the game started slowing before the start of the land grants, eventually stopping completely around Week 7.

I've just tried playing for the first time on my Ubuntu machine, and I cornered the market on food production with the same result. Going into land grants of Week 5 the game just stops.

[EDIT: Turns out if you wait long enough, around 5 minutes, the game recovers for another round then repeats the long delay.]

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.