What does 100 Factions mean? 

100 Major Factions?

100 Major Factions plus all minor factions?

89 Major Factions, plus all minor factions? (+/- 1 one major faction)

Right now I am not able to start a game with more than 89 major factions if I have all minor factions in the game.  I am able to go past this number if I reduce the number of minor factions.  So why is there not a warning message in the game telling the player that the game does not support this and not allow one to do it.  Instead the game allows you to select these and then crashes.

This was my understanding during development which could be completely off the wall but, was never really communicated exactly what 100 faction game really meant.  

100 Major Factions (1 human - 99 AI)

Minor Races don't count toward that number (again I may have always misunderstood).

Game would just not one allow you to add more than 100 races and stop you to attempt to do so.

Game would not crash up to that point. (and wouldn't crash after as you couldn't put more than that into the game).

So what is wrong here?  

My understanding on what 100 factions are?

No hard stop on game settings allowing one to pass the faction cap?

Game crashes after crossing the cap with no warning?

I apologize Stardock, however, this frustrates me, we are almost 2 months after release why was something like hard faction stops put into the game?  

Okay enough for the negative good work to this point Looking forward to providing additional feedback on game play.