It's a known issue, see this post for a fix: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/385873/page/39/#2973972

Wire strippers and paint strippers.  Lucky you. 

Yay!

Darn!

Download and use the Standard Series Release for whatever version of Sins you use.  It has everything except the Dreadnoughts, asteroid militia, and powerful pirates.

See reply number 980.  That reading thing is bringing you down again.  ;]

Hah!  

It's not the weekend everywhere yet, my friend.  Only Friday 4pm for me, 1pm in Hawaii.  

For those that are interested R5 for Diplomacy and Entrenchment is available for download on ModDB ...

http://www.moddb.com/mods/maelstrom

I downloaded the latest version thinking it was just going to be balance changes...and wow, everyone has nice, shiny new models!  Balance is far better than it was before.  The Replicators still seem a bit overpowered but at least they aren't invincible now. 

I did run into a level 10 replicator support capital that had shield mitigation of 92% (almost invincible with its shield restore) but that is easily fixable by making its mitigation value the same as the other capital ships.  Every other capital has maxMitigation StartValue 0.650000, but the CAPITALSHIP_SUPPORT_Replicators has maxMitigation StartValue 0.700000

Edit: fully upgraded, all the replicator capital ships are still going up to around 90% mitigation (even outside their culture).  I was able to bring one down in a battle, but I had to focus my entire fleet (and bombers) at it.  Unless you intend for the replicators to be a super race that everyone has to team up against, I would suggest lowering their capital ship mitigation (the smaller ships seem fine). 

Also, I can confirm that the values for the Norlamin mass upgrade techs are broken again.  Both RESEARCHSUBJECT_SHIPMASSREDUCTION0_Norlamins and RESEARCHSUBJECT_SHIPMASSREDUCTION1_Norlamins are now adding to the ship mass instead of lowering it.  The researchModifier perLevelValue for modifierType: "MassReduction" should be negative.

When you activate it, do you see a checksum other then 0?

Before you leave the mod screen are you clicking apply?

Shutting down as in minidumping?  Does it happen right away or during game play?

Sometimes downloads of large files have issues and you don't get every piece of data.  I'd suggest downloading it again, unarchiving it on your desktop so windows doesn't mess with anything, and then copying the files over to the mod folder and trying again.

R6 will focus on a more definite final balance amongst the races and the planets.

Thanks, will follow it up.

i got like 8G of ram and i tried it on every graphic setting. i play the game for like 10 mins maybe and the game shuts down. i love the mod so much i just save like ever 5 mins so its all good.