Haven't played FTL, we do have a five player Sword of the Stars 2 weekly Lan Party game going right now, the general war has just started, lost two fleets going into the Gorn system. Did I say Gorn? The reptile folks I guess.
Its fairly stable now, we haven't had a crash yet, turn 170, big map. Its not a good SP, game, AI useless, but MP Lan rocks.
Still slow optimization though. Also kind of in a late beta stage still, if only they had the staffing and funding to get it done right.
The Lan Party helps me forget RT for a few hours a week, the rest of the time I wait...