I'd kind of be interested in helping out. but more in learning.  I'm developing a Real-time Strategy with my High School Tech class, but I'm the only real programmer in the class, the teacher doesn't even program.  I won't influence the story at all because I might reveal some of the story of our game, but I might be able to help with code.

My real-time strategy runs way slower than it whould for as simple as it is.  All I have so far is a scrolling background with 400 tiles.  Each tile has a random Image so every map is different.  Even if you load a preset game map it has a random tileset to choose images from and a random background soil pattern.

I was wondering if it was better to create 400 Tile objects with an image each or to put 400 Images through a filter that makes one image out of all 400 images and create 1 BitmapSprite with that Image.  Right now I am using 400 Tile objects and they run verrrrry slowly on a 333 MHz system.  This isn't a huge problem since the game is intended to be played by hardcore gamers, who will almost always have a 1 GHz or higher processor, I just wanted to see if there was a way to significantly cut processor requirements on the game.