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[edit] looks like the 'uninstall' i did from within steam left the old KerbalEngineer mod in the game hierarchy which i had forgotten about. removing that directory allows the game to start just fine with no force flags for me; leaving the rest of the info intact for posterity mac mini late 2014; osx 10.13.3; crashes hard during load, -force-opengl doesn't change anything. KSP.log OSX Crash log:

had same issue, was going nuts! 1) the comment about removing the shutdown from Hammer (aneurysm) is accurate. <Next> will be gray if the Hammer is set to shutdown 2) the comment about missing Shutdown on the Swivel engine = also accurate. I completely forgot about that engine. the one at the super bottom. oops. thanks to both of you, jimbo and bewing! that was frustrating.