I'm sorry to report that, because this is a major bug!
My tech progress is totally buggy. Basically it only progresses in big leap of breakthrough, and almost never by an increase in %. Here are the details:
a) I can pass several years without the tech % move a bit.
b) all of the sudden, I get breakthroughs. Note the 's'... When I get BT, I get in all 3 fields, and it also means I get BT in the queued techs too !! For example I often get 6 techs at once ... I have made screenshots of that, if you need proof. In no less that 4 occurences, I got massive BT with 4 to 6 techs given at once!
Also, I noticed something very weird. I disabled auto save, because I found the game very stable and the saving rather slow. At the end of my evening of RotS playing, I saved ... Then, even while still in pause, I got a massive tech breakthrough (again, 6 techs), plus 5 races contacting me, plus all my civilians ships which were idle at my starports since one hour now on the move.
So definitively, the save procedure woke something in the code ... Like it triggered a computation that led to an update of something... Is it weird? Given that Hearts of Iron 2 (Paradox) had almost the same problem (you needed to wake up periodically the AI by saving and reloading), it is not that weird and impossible it seems.
So there is one, perhaps 2 major problems I think. I have the save at disposal, plus several screenshots of techs massive BT, if needed.
As for the problem of dormant civilian ships that got awaken by the save, at first I thought my ships were dormant because there was a plenty of stuff in my space ports... But no, because after the save finished its work, I saw also a ton of Ketarov and other aliens races civilian ships move in the galaxy... So again, I think something is amiss here.
These problems are majors for me, they almost cripple the game and I don't remember having them in base DW. I hope I won't be ignored
