Temporary Solution to Crash at Start of New Game - Please Read This!
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In the current build, there is a bug where the game will crash if you start with less than 5 alien races. The work-around is to play with all races. I fixed the instance that I found and I'm about to test to try and weed out any other instances. Sorry about this.
--Cari
--Cari