I am glad I did not read the manual then.
Dainter
I think knees are required to have anti-lock brakes now. Especially on star bases.
I had a problem with this as well, but never really realized what it was. My flag ship was on auto-pilot and was traveling into a system. Everytime it went it I had a CTD. I reproduced the problem about 4 times until I decided to just send the ship somewhere else. Then no CTD.
I get them all the time. I believe I have at least 9 in the tough large sized game I am working on now. I have lucky +50 though by spending a point on luck and choosing universalists.
I too crash when this happens.
I get these same symptoms although frequently they are followed by a CTD. Or it just goes straight to CTD. It seems like a situation similar to the memory leak issue Civilization IV had (if you are familiar with that). Although with Civ IV 40% of the players complained about this issue, here it is nowhere near that bad. I have not seen many complaints at all. For me, I chalk it up to my card being a bit old. Auto save does the trick for me...But you are right, it is a
At least you can save your ships. I fall under the category of people who when they try to save a designed ship the game doesn't let them, then crashes.