Nor'easter
Emperor
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It'd be a sound way of picking up if a module is causing them, and if so, which one. Not ideal, I know.
Alternatively, have a look at Rebirth and Legend - it's based off base RiFE, and should have at least some of the fixes that are around. If not, I'll start working on another bug hunt instead of tinkering around and breaking things in preparation for other plans (It's been happening a lot).
At some point I should probably make RiFE and Rebirth compatible versions of many of these modules, I know, but between time and working on the main code I admit I keep putting it off.
You're probably right that I should begin to move on to Rebirth and Legend (and Ashes of Erebus, for that matter): unlike RifE, they're both still being developed, and even though I'm not a programmer I can still report bugs and make suggestions.
I don't know if it's worth your time to make RifE-compatible modules at this point -- I just don't know how many people still play RifE and what kind of interest there would be. *I* would find them interesting, but as you note, Rebirth has incorporated some of this already. Do it if it's something you want to do, of course, but seems to me that you should devote your time to the modding you truly want to do, which is Rebirth and Legend. Up to you, obviously.
I do enjoy playing RifE, but unfortunately have had to abandon games -- typically in the late game -- either because of a repeatable CtD, which of course has no chance of being fixed at this point, or a random CtD which I can avoid by reloading an earlier auto-save and doing a few things differently until a later random CtD. Usually at that late point in the game, with everyone having sizable empires and loads of units, each turn can take a few minutes, and I reach a point where I don't want to reload and spend 15-20 minutes replaying the 3 or 4 turns I just played. It's too bad, but I don't fault the modmakers for losing interest.
Anyway, I'll get around to Rebirth and Legend soon and offer feedback when I can.