How do I reduce the number of actors?

My game in progress is here: http://www.stencyl.com/game/play/7987

The mechanic is Tron-like, except you can also choose to team up with other actors so instead of one trail you can have several. The multiple trails are really slowing down my game because they're creating hundreds of actors. I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out what I can tweak so it doesn't slow down so much, but now I am hoping that the faithful Stencyl forum dwellers can help me.

Thanks!

theres an option in the drawing section called drawing sprite. have you played about with those? they are in the "drawing" blocks. You could also try recycled actors? There is a section online about optimizing games and I think there is some mention of recycled actors, but I would try both of those out.

Hope this helps!