Constant crashes a few hundred turns in - and a few thoughs

[gapper4]

Hi guys,

Just bought the game today and was really enjoying it for a few hours but a few hundred turns in it started crashing almost constantly. I sent in the error logs reported by the game.

Also, I can't start a game at all with a "colossal" galaxy. The game will generate a "huge" one but crashes every time I try colossal. In any case, the mechanics are very interesting and I'm looking forward to the finished product. I'll post more thought later but here are a few off the top of my head:

- Assigning commanders to planets or fleets is a pretty clumsy process. Also, once you assign a captain to a fleet, there doesn't seem to be a way in the fleet panel to tell which ship has the commander. Finally, I couldn't find a way to make a fleet grouping.

- Every city has a connection limit of six hexes. Why can't roads/railways branch out from already built ones ? This seems like an articial limitation on cities and forces you to make new ones when you don't need to or it's not economical.

- I don't understand why some ships are marked in red in the starbase after I build a couple of them. I have command points avaiable but can't build certain ships. Why ?


EDIT: This is the error message I get:

Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index