Fair warning, I'm talking out of my ass and it's 4 in the morning so whatever I say could be relevant or complete garbage, please take it with a grain of salt.

Ahem. With the mini-dump it could be a pretty big range of things like no shield mesh or whatever it's called, we'll refer to it as shiny bubble for I'm simplistic purposes. the game reads a shield, the fighter has a shield, but it's not displayign a shield so that might be where it breaks.

There could also be something not edited that needed editing, it could be reading"oh this unit has a shield" then while looking into another file for like the damage or something to be applied to such and such unit "wait, ashield NEVER" break.......again it's 4am

Then again it could be a Technology issue with upgrades in sec shields, did you research any upgrades? and if so what kind of tech was involved before/during the break. Also, my own opinion, if you do get this working, do you think you could make it a tech allong the shielding branch to add shields to the fighters? Be it late, early , or mid game is up to you but I think about mid would make things interesting without making it too late to be o any real use.

Or, now here's what i believe, your computer feels violated for you touching it's "hidden files" without asking and is rejecting you because it refuses anymore shame....or something *sips coffee* anyway, SHAMELESS BUMP

Maybe someone with real experience and with a heightened sense of cognitive awareness will be allong some time soon since this is at the top of the list now, cause I'm kinda hopping you get my swarms of fighters polished and shiny in their own little bubbles, Keep at it, I look forward to it.

Is this ability tied to a capital ship?

Noticed that. Set it for running a cruiser and see if that helps.

For future reference you change this

1. maxNumLevels 3
2. levelSourceType "Intrinsic"
3. minExperienceLevelRequired
4.         Level:0 0.000000
5.         Level:1 1.000000
6.         Level:2 2.000000

 to this

1. maxNumLevels 1
2. levelSourceType "FixedLevel0"

Eh. I'll do that for the future; but it doesn't break the ability, so to speak.

See this, plus Ryat's comment, is why I believe it may be due to the fact that fighters aren't meant to have shields. I'll try messing with the squadron file.

Edit: Adding the ability to the squad file does nothing to solve the minidump; as does getting rid of the LinkedSquad constraint.

*back from a game crash,own fault* anyway, any progress on beefing up my fighters and bombers? =3

Had a thought about adding the adaptive shield to the squads as a passive you could research. Instead of reduceing damage you could set it to add a shield life value. that would be TEC's anyway, maybe Psionic Shield and Phasic shield for Ad an Va. Maybe lessen the points for Advent, increase mitigation and ....something for vasari that fits. Actually instead of shielding for vasari, since with the carrier's "fix everything" cloud, you could add something that increases the hull or adds a regen rate to the squadrons, like, whole blasted through a wing, nanites make it "grow closed" ;

Gah, hopes dashed for superior squadrons. Oh well, enough numbers of the buggers and anything's swatted down anyway.

Darn hard code >.> need some code softener for this game so we can do some more interesting things ;O

That's exactly how he did it originally, and hence the minidump problem. The problem is no longer not being able to give fighters shields, we can do that. Its that the game crashes when they have them.

Ah--my bad.  Ironically, I can give mines shields--but it doesn't matter because contact is what causes them to detonate self and that includes contact with shots--shields or not.

I already looked at the second paragraph, and as for the first paragraph, I know for a fact it was the fighters being fired upon that crashed it and that the attacks that hit it are fine otherwise.

You can't spawn frigates in the manner that you do fighters/squads. Maybe IC will include this in Rebellion.