I am having the same issue, I can't settle colonies or change traits.

I'm thinking that the latest update caused it and we're just waiting on the mod to be updated too...

I've done a little testing... It seems like it breaks down after your first year in your save. Everything works fine and as intended if you spawn a bunch of silver in and settle a colony at the start, but some people don't want to do that.

Originally posted by Bullet Barrage Spy:

I've done a little testing... It seems like it breaks down after your first year in your save. Everything works fine and as intended if you spawn a bunch of silver in and settle a colony at the start, but some people don't want to do that.

i was at the time of this post pretty far away from hitting the one year mark but as of now am far past that probably my longest surviving colony

Shame, it seems even now the negative timers still persist

Having the same problem, and I was past the 1 year mark when I tried to Empire. I will say I am using Faction Discovery and Save Our Ship 2, which the description says is incompatible, so don't know if that might be contributing.

Originally posted by saren2100:

Having the same problem, and I was past the 1 year mark when I tried to Empire. I will say I am using Faction Discovery and Save Our Ship 2, which the description says is incompatible, so don't know if that might be contributing.

Neither have this effect. Save Our Ship 2 doesn't work when you move to other planets, but otherwise it works. Faction Discovery spawns bases of your Empire, which it really shouldn't do and that breaks the mod. Neither affect the event system.

Is there still no fix for this? It's happened to me on 3/3 saves about 1 year after making the initial settlement.
Here is the error logged:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at FactionColonies.SettlementFC.createTithe () [0x00035] in <d0f2f3ccd71a40a3ab314d8014075f18>:0
at FactionColonies.FactionFC.addTax (System.Boolean isUpdating) [0x0004a] in <d0f2f3ccd71a40a3ab314d8014075f18>:0
at FactionColonies.FactionFC.TaxTick () [0x00038] in <d0f2f3ccd71a40a3ab314d8014075f18>:0
at FactionColonies.FactionFC.WorldComponentTick () [0x00065] in <d0f2f3ccd71a40a3ab314d8014075f18>:0
at RimWorld.Planet.WorldComponentUtility.WorldComponentTick (RimWorld.Planet.World world) [0x00013] in <d72310b4d8f64d25aee502792b58549f>:0

Originally posted by TreePotato:

Is there still no fix for this? It's happened to me on 3/3 saves about 1 year after making the initial settlement.
Here is the error logged:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at FactionColonies.SettlementFC.createTithe () [0x00035] in <d0f2f3ccd71a40a3ab314d8014075f18>:0
at FactionColonies.FactionFC.addTax (System.Boolean isUpdating) [0x0004a] in <d0f2f3ccd71a40a3ab314d8014075f18>:0
at FactionColonies.FactionFC.TaxTick () [0x00038] in <d0f2f3ccd71a40a3ab314d8014075f18>:0
at FactionColonies.FactionFC.WorldComponentTick () [0x00065] in <d0f2f3ccd71a40a3ab314d8014075f18>:0
at RimWorld.Planet.WorldComponentUtility.WorldComponentTick (RimWorld.Planet.World world) [0x00013] in <d72310b4d8f64d25aee502792b58549f>:0

should be easy to save your faction files when SoS2 leaves the planet and start a new one.