No, it won't!
BOTF basically slows down because of bad programming. One of the (BOTF2) devs said somewhere that the reason for this is because the memory doesn't get properly flushed out or something after every turn - whenever you open a new screen (Eg. Intel, Science, or even when you return to the Galactic map) the screen doesn't get fully closed in the memory of the game!
As you can imagine, if a computer has to maintain all those open windows (Even though they are shown as closed) it starts to take its toll on a computers' memory, no matter how powerful it is.
Gavin is building BOTF2 from scratch.
This means he can avoid all the problems and mistakes that the programmers of BOTF never rectified. (And they should never have made them anyway) This is also why some people think the game is taking too long to release.
When BOTF was being developed, Microprose, (The developers) were going through a really rough patch.
They ended up having to rush the game through production, and it wasn't properly play-tested.
Long story short, Microprose collapsed, so the developers never got around to addressing the problems that BOTF had, so after six years, the fans are making their own game instead!
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) coz i'm going to Drayton Manor theme park for my sisters birthday tommorrow, and I might be going to see Corpse Bride with my friends on sunday.