This game loves to troll. You're going along, almost no blue rooms, and you think "Maybe this time I can get to the next speed without mu-" Then you fly into a blue room with about 10 moving walls while you're going 1396.
Something I would love to see, is after the civilization nearly comes to an end and small areas are left, is if those small areas became separate civilizations and maybe went to war with each other sometimes.