This one gave me fits until I finally did enough source-diving to sort out what was causing it. If you try to create gates using <Lookup table="StargateInbound"/> and <Lookup table="StargateOutbound"/> instead of <Lookup table="HumanSpaceStargates"/>, but your stargates for the system as defined in the topology aren’t named “Inbound” and “Outbound”, the game announces that it has had enough of your shenanigans by giving you a black screen with the following:

codeDebug.log wrote:
12/12/2014 16:30:24 Unable to find destination stargate [GATENAME] in destination system.
12/12/2014 16:30:24 Unable to continue due to program error.

program state: OnAnimate
program state: enter stargate, loading destination system
game state: entering stargate

Please contact [email protected] with a copy of Debug.log and your save file. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
/code

See: http://forums.kronosaur.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=6930

george moromisato 24 May 2018:

Fixed the crash in 1.8 Beta 2.

assumedpseudonym 24 May 2018:

 …And the first ticket ever put on the Ministry has finally been resolved. ^.^