I have noticed in the 1.03 patch the game options menu has changed greatly, but I notice that there is no more option for Resource Level. Was this replaced with 'Resource Speed'? I now only seem to have 2 or 3 asteroids per planet instead of 4 and the extraction rate doesn't seem too much faster.
Overall this has greatly slowed the pace of the game as I am constantly waiting on one resource or another to build up while I sit and twiddle my thumbs.