In Ideology on the goody goody route at the bottom of the pyramid....I hit Persuasion and it locks my game up. I have had it happen on three different play throughs. If I come back from auto save and attempt to wait out the number crunching....but it never finishes. Have to start over.
Oh and a little bug I noticed...Ships you name (change the name of) revert back to say Corvette m16-2 later in the game when you upgrade them. CCosmetic but annoying.
Thanks Mark