I have had the same bug for several months and I can't get rid of it. I get stuck at the "Generating Planets." At first I only had the black "Generating Planets" screen. Now I get a "Generating Planets" bar in the middel of my screen. I can see the system/planet and zoom a bit, but that is about it. I want to play. But this bug absolutely prevents me from doing anything. Help me, please. Bugtracker: FS#3943
I've heard about this before. I'm foggy about it, but I think it had something to do with mods? Could you try running PA with the --no-mods flag?
I did have some mods at some point but I deleted them(not installed). I think it still worked after that. Where is this no-mods flag? Is it an ingame setting? Or how do I configure it?
I reinstalled the mod manager and deinstalled the mods that were still there. Now everything workst just fine. Finally
Ah, good. I forget which mod it was that caused it though and it might already have been updated, so reinstall away! (Oh, and I mistyped the flag, so for anybody else passing by, it's --nomods, not --no-mods.)