Instantly destroyed empires?

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So with the new update totally destroying the base game, unless you mod it to remove the fun effects of the "balance changes", I decided to go ahead and take the step and get Crusade. I just started my first game, Gigantic Universe, 14 players, and the very first turn 5 empires get totally destroyed. I have restarted about 7-8 times now and it happens every time. Am I setting something up wrong or does this happen randomly and I just happened to get it repeatedly?

Edit: Doing some more digging has found that its the same empires and the reason, it seems, is that they have no homeworld. Terran Resistance, Torian Regime, Acean Empire, Slynn, and Onyx. Do I need to change something in my settings for this to work properly?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Disable mods. If you have mods you need to move them to the GC3 Crusade folder FYI.

Validate files and try agin?

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Yeah I figured it out thanks, I had a mod that makes homeworlds larger and it was for the base game, didn't have the new homeworlds in there so with it activated the homeworlds for the new empires weren't showing up. Feel really intelligent right about now...

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I see you figured out your problem, but some other people may have a similar issue when you have too many players for the quantity of stars and habitable planets you selected pre-game, in game first turn they are destroyed.