crashes quite a bit still, even with latest 1.06 patch. Happens seemingly at save maybe.
Almost done with my 2nd playthrough, first one i had to stop due to bankrupting myself with quickly colonizing planets all over.
2nd one ive done pretty good.
Also the AI never puts barely any money into research in the budget, only colony development seemingly, took it off automatic management due to that.
possible issues for people.
1) Lots of pirates, noticeably in both playthroughs, its like I'm playing with high pirate amounts or something. Make sure to turn down your settings if you plan on fighting with them, and not paying them off for an hour or more before you build up.
2) Lots of Independent planets, which maybe isnt a bad thing, but my god every other system seemingly has a independent race in both playthroughs (the second playthrough I lowered the setting and its almost identical.)
3) The price to make an independent like you via gifts, is a little iffy, if you dont have the diplomacy techs for the race, they will not like you most likely, and it will take 100k and even more credits to make them like you in gifts. For that price, 15k credits in a fleet of troop transports will take them over instantly, for 1/5th the price. For a very small reputation hit, you can have a much faster early game expansion.
4) The game runs better than DWU at least but you start feeling it chug mid game and later, there will be 1000's of private ships flying all over.
5) The speed of the game feels much slower than DWU early game, with the normal settings. It might be a perceptual thing, but absolutely feels super slow with normal settings early on. Speeds up as you start getting some techs and economy rolling.