I've experienced the same thing with current game I'm playing. The influence borders are not reacting as they should. Seeing as that game now crashes out everytime I start it, I'm going to go with this beta being more buggy than the last.
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With this new version, it sometimes just completely crashes out. No warning, no freezing and no error message. Just completely quits out.
the next time it happens I will try to do that. Thanks. I have Windows 8.1 and 16gb of ram. It's only using 2.6gb when it freezes up.
When a new template or ship is made, you shouldn't have to save the game to save the template. After spending a lot of time making a new ship, the game crashed and the template and ship I created were lost.
The game I was playing doesn't work because of some change in format that was just made today with updated beta. That rather stinks.
On numerous occasions, when moving from one idle ship to another the game will just sit there. Esc doesnt work. Nothing works. Even though the Task Manager doesn't say "Not Responding", it's pretty much hung up and I have to force quit it. It seems the longer the game you play and more pieces on the map, the more likely it is to happen.