Technically you can do all that, even if it isn't particularly easy, unless you're one of the unfortunate people who can't get into the game at all, so I don't think it's the best benchmark. Latest news we have from Kerberos is there will be a patch on Monday and then they'll plan where to go for the next patch. By next week the game should be better, but in what exact ways we do not know yet.
Ehhhhhh, don't be so sure. About 30 turns into my game it crashes every time I start the next turn, tried it over several restart/reloads : P So technically no,and I think it might be crashing on a first encounter with something, I have a few fleets a turn away from systems, hope this helps u guys.