Starting a game now causes a crash no matter what. The last line of the debug reads:
Debug Message: ShipComponent Created. [ Name Yor_Starbase_Wall_03]
What is especially confusing is that the same GlobalDefs file that WASN'T increasing ability traits for custom races is now, but now the game is crashing.
I have done multiple uninstalls and reinstalls over the last 48 hrs, each time I get a different crash. The only constant seems to be that it crashes the same way until I do another uninstall and reinstall (which then also results in different behavior from the GlobalDefs file).
Everything that I know about software and troubleshooting technical problems tells me this shouldn't be happening this way: I have the same variables producing different results.
Is it SkyNet?