This mod is AWESOME!  I played several games and got a mini-dump only once, playing the Empire.  The origional factions are real easy to beat though, a couple hits and their ships go down but its still fun.  The only real complaint I have is that the ships are way too dark and the Capital Ships are small compared to the rest. 

Having burned the midnight oil with a friend trying to find the issues in this simply put awesome mod over the last 2 days all our waking hours this is what ive found so far (apologies if it has been mentioned before or is allready known)

Research:

-Cannot research "Wormhole Navigation" and "Long Distance Jumps" as Empire (the icons are there bud overlapped by existing other research. They can be clicked but no research comes of them thus making multiple star games impossible as youre land locked.

- The research of "phase jump disruption" and "Interstellar networks" seems redundant since you can build those structures off the bat?

Structures:

- Repair Platforms dont seem to actually repair. Theyre also missing the auto-cast icon for repair ie you cant use them manually neither.

- Novalith can be built but not fired.

Ships:

- Antimatter Regen. Edit nm I found out how this works its fine

- Abilities/Autocast we agree seems to be some but not exclusive to the minidump issues. There is also a lot of ships which becomes bugged/or is bugged for ship abilities and purchases when levelling. Where points cant be spent ect. Especially with Alliance Capitals.

Bugs/Minidump maybes:

- Pirates set as inactive greatly reduces minidumps.

- Minidumps is near impossible to pin-point for us non-programmers as we had a million of them last night and they were utterly random. We even saved the game every 3 mins manually to try and get "as close to a minidump" as we could get but each and every time it would let us game a little longer without exception. We had easily over 100 minidumps during testing over last few days and not once could we replicate it to a fact.

We are confident to say that we agree with you EvilleJedi that it seems to often be involved with abilities and may very well have links to the debris. But we simply dont know. We do not have programming aptitude so its difficult for us to link the events with the "aha!" moment.

So far all testing has been with Alliance and Empire in various forms.

One last wish.

Is there any way the function shield transfer from TEC could be included in some shape or form could be a lot less powerful for all i care or maybe a repair platform that does shields restore or some such? Reason I ask is we found that our flagships massive shields would slowly get eroded by the game by sheer attrition and due to its size would never recharge in any meaningful way even out of combat and as a result we could just watch our ships get eaten down to the bones through the game with no way of doing anything about it

Hope this helps.

Awesome mod, awesome job. Hope we get rid of the worst mini dumping´.

Going to edit this post with anything I find as summary

Jason your mod MiniDumps just as bad so i wouldnt give Eville any advice

Well I managed to stabilize the mod by v1.6 by following my advice.

Ryuzaki, what's your advice on the best way to isolate issues and resolve stability issues - do you find cross-referencing between entity files or the validity of their content to be the best thing to focus on?

P.S. What mods have you authored and/or converted?

Great mod Eville

The only time I've minidumped so far (playing as Empire with pirates disabled) is when I try to exit the game.  Every time I quit, I get a minidump message.  This obviously isn't very bad for me, since the only time I'm "forced" out of a game is when I'm already quitting.

One request for the next version is that you increase the antimatter reserves of hangars.  While the increased capacity that they have is necessary, that capacity means that even your initial squads are produced at a heartrendingly slow rate as antimatter regenerates.

I've had some minidumps occur while exiting the game as well.

How do I put the SOGE icons into the Mod?  Do I have to make a folder? 

Dont know if this particular observation helps or not.

But the Alliance seems to be vastly more bugged than any other race. Reason is we can play solo games playing CIS, Empire and Republic with no minidump issues as long as we dont build mandator dread or have pirates active but every single time we play alliance on either machine (one runs xp 32 bit one runs vista 64 bit) we crash all the time.

So maybe at least some of the more severe bugs are tied into Alliance somehow? and this is definately not Capital ability oriented. We just played several games where nocaps were build against vanilla races and we just mini dumped all over the place when in combat, zooming in on combat ect.

Again, no other race is even comparable on grief levels. Sure we have the odd mini dump here and there but Alliance is unplayable.

ever stop to think that maybe its not just some capital ship abillites that are broken just a guess.

made the bug tracker a little more accesible, see the first post in this thread for the change log and bug tracker (you still need to sign up for an account to report bugs)

First off I'd like to say DAMN, this mod rocks!!  I absolutely love the direction I see your are taking with this.  It's Mini dumping too much for me to play good games right now but just when I start to get upset I have to remind myself your not even to a 1.0 release yet.  So yea,  I can't wait till its solid.  I was going to write a couple suggestions/questions but then I realized I got no business making suggestions on an unfinished mod nor should I ask questions when I haven't read 26 pages of posts on the subject so well just leave it at, "I can't wait till its done!" 

This pretty much says everything I was going to.

I really cant wait for this one. What I do get to play before the mini dumps is enough to really get me excited. Once this goes to Entrenchment (if it makes it there) I will sure be there with you.

Wish I knew something about coding so i could offer some help Lets just say you have all the positive thoughts I can send your way....hope it helps some

thanks for your work

Played several hours on Gateway with 5 AI Empire players and me as Alliance.  This is the first time I played with any race besides Empire without expiriencing ANY minidumps (well, I had two while exiting the game...but who cares since I was done playing).

The only difference between prior Alliance player games and this one, was that I DIDN'T build any MC80A capital ships.

Oh, the Alliance also kicks the Empire's rear in terms of ship quality and abilities.  I tried beating the other 5 AI players on Gateway with everyone as Empire, and got my rear handed to me every time.  However, the Alliance sliced their way through Imperial fleets like nothing.

One Independence Star Cruiser, escorted by 1-2 Mon Remonda Cruisers and a few MC30c Cruisers = dead Imperial Fleet (unless it is truely massive or has allied support).

Between battles, having the ability to maximize shield recharge rates also gives the Alliance ships a much longer lifespan.  Not having to pump out the replacement ships really goes a long ways economy wise.