WTF? the game crashes itself and then won't let you play? Do they simply want to punish people that quit midgame? If they do it's a sad way of doing it, it's far more likely the game will crash than you will actually leave a game.
Mister-E
I just had this happen to me and then proceeded to abuse it on everyone i saw. Apparently you can upgrade your vasari ruiners and with their basic mines, drive up to you enemy ships and proceed to lay down mines, the mines explode and so do the ships near them. Anyway, you can counter any ship with this, not to mention you can blow up a starbase with 4 ruiners.
I just installed entrenchment today and I'm very aggravated, it feels like the gravity wells are gigantic compared to the previous ones, it takes me what feels like 5 mins to actually scout to the first layer of planets around me, ridiculous, and phase jumps which were previously "short" now take forever to jump. I knew entrenchment was supposed to be defensive but this is freaking ridiculous, it's a decrease in game speed to a game that's in the "slow as hell" phase to start with, if a
I personally love this bug/extremely wonderful feature. Typically you'd have to search 6/7 planets which is the price of a small fleet to get something that does 15% more of something, totally not worth the small fleet.