Maybe the owner of the post could be changed to you?

At-least we have a new modding post stickied, though some of the others should still be removed.

Awesome, my question inspired this!

Thanks!

I am starting on texturing and I was wondering where the tutorial videos had gone.

You have experienced the bane of any modder's existence.

THE MINI-DUMP!!!!

The game will run a pre-play compile and then reboot with the mod enabled, whenever you install a mod.

You get a mini-dump when a number of things happen:

The compile of your mod failed. (This is your problem, to fix, try running the game in the dev.exe to see what is wrong.)

The game ran out of memory.

An asset has somehow become corrupted. (rare problem)

As I said, run your mod in the dev.exe, located in the Program Files/Stardock Games/Sins of a Solar Empire directory, and the game will post little windows that will tell you what your problem is.

Post the results somewhere. We can help you with them.

Well...one thing i changed was the Advent battleship,i changed every detail and i wanted to see if i could make it bombard planets with the Vasari beam weapon bombardment,so i changed every thing to be the same as the vasri battleships beam bombardment weapon

I also changed the Advent race to only use the Advent Battleship(wich was a part of the tutorial with Forge Tools 3)

I changed the Advents fighters to have more fighters per squadron(bomber and combat) and changed there damage,i also changed the burst amount for the combat fighter with its lasers(i did the same for the battleship's lasers and plasmas)

I also changed the Advents beam defense to have increase power and shields with shield regen and i changed it range(i did the same for the battleship,changed hull,shields,attack power and range)

I left the rest of the stuff in the Game Info folder alone,oh i also didnt take them out of the Game Info folder,i left them in the folder and put them in the mod folder,i hope this helped for you to help me...

Messages like that typically mean you improperly added or deleted a line. The game engine follows the file in order and looks for a specific line at a specific spot.

There are spots you can add or remove sections but they always have counts to change.

Or you are using old reference files. I think the Gameplay.constants is text and can be gotten from 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\Sins of a Solar Empire\Diplomacy\GameInfo\Gameplay.constants

You can learn to Convert Data or harpo has a Dip 1.31 already converted and there are community made programs to help as well.

Those reference files are crap  .

Make or get a new set that is updated for what version you are using and start over. Thank Ironclad and Stardock for the waste of time.

Dip is now at 1.32 so harpos might not yet be updated.

Soase Weebly reference files are also not updated or I would have supplied a link. 

With all the recent updates it best to learn  Convert Data 

Like I said.

Might explain why theres 2k+ lines messed up...i cant get out of it -.-"

Sooo...i need to convert the data?All files are outdated eh?

Guess i need to look up a How To on converting data

And update my game..tis' 1.31

Another very useful post Goafan's 

Annotated Guide to the Developer.exe

What is your checksum? If its zero you probably have extra folders or you misspelled your GameInfo folder (not gameinfo).