Dont know if anyone else has noticed this but when out exploring with 300-400 jump route plotted the game stutters/pauses shortly after entering the jump tunnel. This is long enough for the egg timer icon to appear and occasionaly causes a disconect from the servers. However I noticed that as the number of jumps to the destination sysyem decreased the length of the pause decreased untill wiith only 4 or 5 jumps left the pause is barely noticable. The stutter/pause is independent of graphics settings.