Got a minidump to report. About 90 seconds in.
First game i played, i was borg vs 4 AI (one of each race) on normal (this was a sh- and giggles match).
Set the two scout modules to scout, put the two coffins and pyramid in one group and the queens diamond in another. Set a noncombat research node to build, and set the first two resource researches to research. Could've been when the coffins/pyramid were about to make a warp jump, but i couldn't tell as i had zoomed out.
The visual settings had seemed to reset from the 1.21 update i seemed to have missed, but i had patched the SoA2 mod to it's most recent and the only visual settings i changed was the resolution back to my liking. Didn't touch the rendering/texturing settings yet.
It could be settings, or it could be something just seemed to screw up, but either way i thought i'd let you know. I will check with another game shortly and update this post if it's a one-time issue or not.
EDIT: Seems to have been a first-time minidump, as i started another game after turning off a few effects and putting settings from highest/high/low to med/med/med. The new game has the exact same settings as the first, and i did things in almost precisely the same order as the first. Running strong so far.