That's weird... I was experiencing something similar lately, after doing some of the AI research tweaking mentioned elsewhere, though I've since fixed it. You wouldn't have happened to have attempted something along those tweaks, would you? Either way, that just sounds really, really odd.

You have any idea of how many file changes there are to go thru? May as well rebuild the mod. Definitely not on my list.

Talk one of the DEVs into looking at the mini-dump or tell us how to.

I suspected memory usage was the issue a while back, but on testing, there is near zero difference.

It may dump ten seconds in, but you can even load a game of vanilla sins up first, the assets are unloaded from ram on switching to a mod.

Research is the only real bastion of stock at this point, and it's been gone through so many times it's not funny, the files are also handled from top to bottom.  With it not being a handled error, it's a needle in one of the 4208 haystacks, and one's been there since at least entrenchment, if not the original SOA2 release.  With two handled but untraced, non crashing and apparently entirely inconsequential errors(pretty sure one of them is a bad particle), a rebuild would be a few hundred hours of my life down the drain, probably to end up with it still there in the end.

If we do have a crashing error that isn't just a first run issue, the mod is still more stable than most games are.

My pet peeve now is Elite Assimilation. I just watch (and facepalm) as damn near every elite unit i threw into the fight becomes Borg in less than a minute lol. Yes Borg are supposed to be very powerful, but i wasnt expecting my entire fleet to convert lol. We might want to consider toning it down a bit.

You can order your allies to attack, and coordinate it with your own attack. However if your allies arent teched up, or if their economy is stalled they wont be of much help except for fodder to be assimilated. Donate to boost them.

God i hope we dont have to rebuild this yet again :/

    I personally never play against Borg because, while I don't mind my ships going boom, losing them to assimilation is just not fun...

 Any thought of using the new colonizing shuttlecraft model to replace those butt ugly mining ships?

 Little shuttles moving about would be much more Trek than the current model.

 Are the self replicating mines new? Or they from another mod?

btw great great work.....Stopped me from playing Skyrim..for now.

The mine was using a placeholder model before, but the ability design has been in a few versions now.  A psycho original.

Assimilation is getting toned down a little, it's a bit overly effective with the mod running smoother.  Action delays changed the frequency of conversion quite a bit.

I find the Borg regen ability is to strong when you add it up with all the other things they are strong at. They hit super hard, they have really high armor, and (at least the lower ships) can enter their hibernation mode and regen HP at 45 a second. I think some have even higher regen. This does make sense for the Borg but the problem is, in the early game you can't kill their ships because you need to reach a certain "critical mass" before you out DPS their regen. When I fight the Borg I feel like I'm either unable to touch them, or I've reached a state where I can overwhelm them with shier numbers. Theres no middle ground where your both equal.

Also, I find their early colony expansion is to high, even for the Borg. In a game I just recently played the Borg had 6 planets colonized 2 minutes into the game. I do think that the Borg should be fast expanding and self regening but I just think a lot of these stats are just to high currently.

I also have a question. Are the Borg getting some form of shield mitigation even though they don't have shields in the game? Maybe its just the high armor thats making me think that.

Regarding what you posted about an anti-Borg research tree, I think thats an interesting idea. You could also include that type of research in the current research tabs depending on what category it falls under. It would also let you put higher level skills more naturally further up the "tree" intermingled with all the other research.

Also, for what you said about a transport ship for hauling goods around. Its been shown in several of the shows that civilian ships are often used for this and theres lots of different ships shown over the years hauling cargo. The civ cargo ship shown in Enterprise is similar to the one in Armada and it would make sense that the overall design wouldn't change all that much over the years. (A truck is a truck.)

BTW if theres a model you do need made you can let me know. I haven't done a lot of modelling lately but I should be able to make whatever you need. 3D modelling for games is what I took in college.

Just let me know, I'd enjoy making something for this mod.

Edit: Maybe use the long one like the one from Armada for "goods" and use one of the Antares varients for "ores"?