Galaxy Forge help

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Hello everyone. I'm a long time player (since vanilla Sins) and have followed since game ever since. I don't really play online except for compstomps with two of my friends. I've always found the in-game Map Maker extremely clumsy and difficult to use, but I recently stumbled onto the Galaxy Forge through a youtube video I found whilst looking for a tutorial on the map maker. So I made my map, saved it into the correct path (at least, I think so. C:User/Name/Documents/my games/Ironclad Games/Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion/Galaxy Forge), but when I actually launch the game, load up the map, and click Play, I get a minidump error at the loading screen and the game crashes. At first I thought this might be because I was running with a mod (the SOA2 Star Trek mod), so I disabled it and tried again, but then it just hung indefinitely until the game stopped responding and I had to close it. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I know this is vague and I'll provide more info as requested. I just...don't know where to start.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

You made the map with the Galaxy Forge in your game install folder, not the one downloaded for this site, right? The Galaxy Forge 3 you can download in the downloads section is only for Diplomacy and earlier.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Yes, I used the Galaxy Forge in the install folder. I didn't download anything.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Make sure you have the latest galaxyscenariodef file in with your galaxy forge. It should be there by default but checking never hurts.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

I have a file in there called GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef, last updated 6/18/2013. I play through Steam, so I'm pretty sure my game is always up to date.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

does EACH of the player starts have the planet set as the homeworld?

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Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Yes. It's a 6-player map, 3vs3 teams.

Each side has the three HomePlanets, three randomized planets straight ahead, then all link to a dead asteroid which you can fortify, as it's the only phase lane connecting the mirror empires.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Maybe you can post the map so we could check it for you?

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

If you plan on using google docs you'll need to change the permission settings so people can access it.

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

Try removing the space in "Galaxy Forge" in your C:/mygames path.

So just "GalaxyForge"...

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

There is no space. It's already "GalaxyForge"

Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top

Anybody find the problem, or have a possible answer? :(