Hey,
I have found, as well as some other people so this may well be old news, that the game has finished loading and has started before the loading screen disappears. This means the debt timer is occaisionally at about $9000 before I get a look at the map. Super frustrating when you can hear the start music and youre looking at a black screen with audio loading written on it 
I am running this on an only slightly upgraded mid 2008 imac so this may have something to do with it. Keep up the good work
Oh also: did you change the way power is calculated in 1v1? My debt diving robo build now lands me with 184K of debt rather than about 30. I have no problem with this as it was a little cheesy but it could probably do with being in the patch notes...unless it already is and I missed it in which case I'll be quiet