And there i was playing my first game after update...
Autosaves attached.

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Have just updated to 10.8.3 and newest apple driver with official support for 650Ti and did not receive any unit selection related crash whatever i tried. Therefore i'm inclined to agree that the beta driver was the reason for crash.

System profiler info after the update:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA ...

^^ Topic.
Moving airplane through the sector with ruins, does not pick/examine those. They are left as is. Only "stopping" in the ruins sector do examine them.

Bug or Feature?

To reproduce:
Initiate new game, upon entering game do click "ok", then "exit to main menu" then click new game again. It will say "initialising server" and then fail.
I've looked at processes and it seems that the PandoraServer.bin hangs. Restarting game stops the server and upon next launch new ...

Since URL's are "OFF" :)
www{dot}nvidia{dot}com/object/macosx-304.00.05f02-driver{dot}html

I could debug more, should you point me to the right direction.

P.S.
Err, i could not post link as whole:
Your post looks too spamy for a new user, please remove off-site URLs.

P.P.S.
Maybe i explained ...

Yeah, the card is not "apple certified", despite driver availability on nVidia website.
GPU Driver Version: 1.3.4.0 (304.00.05f02)
CUDA Driver Version: 5.0.37

I do now understand that this can be related, since i do not get a crash on standard MabookPro issue 2009 (with 9600GT onboard).

For specs see attachment.
Btw, i found logs in "/Applications/Pandora\ Beta.app/Logs/", so the error log is attached as well.

I've been having crashes on clicking on any unit, either directly on the map, or via military -> select, or via button "Order Units" upon new game start.
It seems that changing number of a.i. opponents anyhow breaks the game, until some other setting is changed (e.g. world size) game continues to ...

SInce i believe i came after the overhaul, there go my thoughts:

Looks of the planet, along with the tile type dispersion can be as one the the difficulty settings.

Being more earth like as easier level, and more alienated a diverse making it harder to colonise.
The more earth like the planet is ...