I have not got to Culture Traits yet, mainly due to the fact the Actions in the game are so limited, they do one thing and one thing only, for example the trait you mentioned, you cant add a what if, or modifiey said action. The actual action is called PlayerClaimAllPlanetsInRebellion which suggests it only flips things in rebellion, which is not true. And the second part of said trait for starbases...PlayerClaimAllStarbasesInRebellion when has a Starbase every had the ability to Rebel?

Its a shame really that actions are locked away and us modders have no controll over them or have the ability to modify/add them. The current xml modding is just basic stuff, all the advanced modding that could be possible with this game is needlessly locked away in C++(or what ever code they use). Again going back to  the trait mentioned, having the action in c++ is fine, but I would have coded it differently, Id have had ClaimAllPlanets as the C++ code, then used scopes/modifers to do the rest(for all actions tbh) so you would have something like:

    <Triggers>
      <OnEvent>OnCultureTraitUnlock</OnEvent>
      <Scope>InfluenceZOC</Scope>
      <PerformAction>
        <Action>PlayerClaimAllPlanets</Action>
      </PerformAction>
    </Triggers>

Or

    <Triggers>
      <OnEvent>OnCultureTraitUnlock</OnEvent>
      <Scope>InfluenceZOC</Scope>
        <Modifier>
        <Target>
          <TargetType>Planet</TargetType>
          <TargetEffect>Rebellion</TargetEffect>
        </Target>
          <PerformAction>
            <Action>PlayerClaimAllPlanets</Action>
          </PerformAction>
       </Modifier>
    </Triggers>

Not for a while. Install 0.3h, then install the 0.4 patch if you want to try 0.4.

Right, going back to the Carriers debate. I think I have decided what I am going to do with them, and it is a mixture of both idea 1 and idea 2:-

Modules will be one per ship. They will have increased mass and production cost. They will also have a penatly in logistics. And I am going to change the size and amount of fighters you get from each module. (You can have multiple modules per ship, 1 of each type still, I can not do anything about this)

So:-

• Assault Module - Carries 2 Medium Assault Craft. Costs 2 Logistics.
• Guardian Module - Carries 4 Small Defense Craft. Costs 3 Logistics.
• Interceptor Module - Carries 8 Tiny Interceptor Craft. Costs 4 Logistics.

To get the Logistics cost I basicly added the total number of logistics the Fighters would cost and divided it by 4. If you get all 3 modules unlocked thats 14 possible Fighters per Carrier(I think this is a resonable amount?) and the Carrier itself costing 19 Logistics to build (Instead of 48 if you build them all seperatly).

It will also mean planets get medium Fighters too.

This might go out the window if the Logistics Cost decides it is going to act wierd, like a few other things I have tried. Thoughts on this are welcome.

EDIT:

I have re-enabled High Capacity Carrier Module:

• Carries 1 Assault Fighter, 2 Guardian Fighters and 3 Interceptor Fighters. Costs 4 Logistics.

This will take the total amount of fighters to 20. If you can manage to put 4 modules onto a single ship (You can I just did the math, you have fair amount spare too if you go Miniturization route + Shrinker maxed out)

here is a new one I just got starting my new game:

"The faction The Dominion has failed to validate for the following reason and will not be available

Unknown material 1

unknown material 2"

Press ok and game starts and I play as The Dominion

CTD, here are some excerpts from error log:

Debug Message: Ship Design: The hull shipdesign Tellarite_M_Ranx_AAA07E77D8554724A3B1979CD6751A69 is not marked as template and will not build correctly.
Debug Message: Ship Design: The hull shipdesign Tellarite_M_Ranx_AAA07E77D8554724A3B1979CD6751A69 is not marked as template and will not build correctly.
Debug Message: Ship Design: The hull shipdesign Tellarite_M_Ranx_AAA07E77D8554724A3B1979CD6751A69 is not marked as template and will not build correctly.
Debug Message: Ship Design: The hull shipdesign Tellarite_M_Ranx_AAA07E77D8554724A3B1979CD6751A69 is not marked as template and will not build correctly.

Here is the last part, not sure who player 51319 is but ???

Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 0, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 2, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 4, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 6, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 8, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 10, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 12, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 14, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 16, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 18, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 20, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 22, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 24, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 26, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 28, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 30, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 32, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 34, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 36, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 38, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 40, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 42, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 44, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 46, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 48, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: Diplomacy State Changed. [PlayerID 51319, PlayerID 50, Foreign -> Enemy]
Debug Message: CreateColony 51324
Debug Message: Planet Destroyed. [ID 14332]

Then it crashed. Did it just create a new player on the fly? 

Not sure what turn, I deleted the saves and loaded the new files for your updated 0.4 Definitely was passed the 150 stage though. I was playing the Dominion and was falling behind the BORG, my neighbors, significantly so restarting was not that big a deal. 

Coming soon!

THOLIANS!!!

Race by Horemvore

Ship set style by Airmaster.

Did the game continue after the verify?

Declare War code is locked away.

I also hate the way the game distributes factions on the map, I normaly end up restarting games like you just described.

I'll get to culture traits, honest

Hmm, thats strange them showing up. Did you by any chance use the random civ feature? I am using the Hide from Selection function to remove the vanilla races, I did think they might still get selected with the random civ feature. If this is the case I will revert to using the "Special" function instead.

If you get a hang again, can ya post the whole debug.err file plz.

Hu8ng on Breen confederacy. Was able to move around, modify build queus and even exit, not save though, but it would not go past the Breen. I am assuming they were player 13 where it hung in the past.

Here is the log file

Removed

Now that you mention it, it is the same kind of hang I got before 1.81 or 2. I reloaded a save and it let me go pass the point it hang on. I will clear the log and see what shows up next time it hangs.

Had another crash to desktop, found this in the log file:

Debug Message: CSDFModelCore::LoadModelData has detected an SDF file that is an older version of SDF than expected: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Galactic Civilizations III\Gfx\Models\Components\Meshes\ColonyModel_WeaponTexture_A_01.sdf

Debug Message: CSDFModelCore::LoadModelData has detected an SDF file that is an older version of SDF than expected: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Galactic Civilizations III\Gfx\Models\Components\Meshes\ColonyModel_WeaponTexture_A_01.sdf

Debug Message: CSDFModelCore::LoadModelData has detected an SDF file that is an older version of SDF than expected: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Galactic Civilizations III\Gfx\Models\Components\Meshes\ColonyModel_WeaponTexture_A_01.sdf

Debug Message: SDFCMeshMerger::LoadFileData FAILED because pMeshMergerTreeNode parameter was NULL
Debug Message: CSDFMeshMerger::MeshMultiple FAILED to load file data for the meshes

BTW,  any idea what this actually is?

Debug Message:  ERROR: GetTranslation() failed

I have a couple hundred of those in my error log also.