An update on the last post..... I believe the error is caused when the research item Projectile Weapons are removed from the research tree. This item seems to have some link going elsewhere in the game. When you research projectile weapons it creates long-range guns. Somewhere in here something needs to stay in research or the game crashes at startup.
I will test further today.
In the meantime other work in ship designs.
When you open up the ship design screen and select Show All Designs, Distant Worlds Universe will show you every class of ship available in the game.
If you look at the picture below I currently have only 5 types of military ships showing : 2 classes of Star Destroyers, a Tie Fighter, a Lambda Shuttle Explorer and the Death Star, the latter which is only buildable later in the mod.
When I started this next version of the mod I disabled all military ships and have been allowing some of them back into the mod again by switching their required components back on again.
There are no bases at all and this is because I need to add in an Imperial Docking Bay to allow a base to be available.
