I'm having the same problem. I downloaded entrenchment today (Jan. 31) and while the beta is interesting I can't play regular sins against other players anymore.

in order to play regular sins, you need to uninstall the whole game and just reinstall Sins without downloading the entrenchment pack, I know that is not what people want to do, but what can you expect with BETA.  That is the only way I have found out how to play sins only

The same with me: I deinstalled both, because I couldn't play anything of SoaSE at all: neither Entrenchment, nor the original SoaSE. Then in my "My Games" List, I saw them both...two icons for them and listed as "available". When I installed SoaSE, there was only the "Entrenchment" Icon. I can't imagine this to work as it was supposed to be... Of course, now I can't play anything of SoaSE....

Can't wait for a polished Entrenchment, which is no longer a beta, or a patch to remove Entrenchment again...

Pako

Didn't work (for me at least).

After installing Sins (incl. the unwanted Entrechment) there is only one icon for Entrechment. None for Sins vanilla, just like Pako75 said. Uninstalling only works by deleting the gamefolder, as there is this 28,8 XML error.

After deleting the game and restarting Impulse there are two icons again. One for vanilla and one for Entrechment. But it doesn't matter, which one I choose to install. As soon as it's finished, there is only the Entrechment icon left and the beta was installed again. Not even removing my Entrechment serial from Impulse worked :/

I could semi-fix it by installing the Sins standalone version, but that's not really the best solution obviously

Got the same problem, where can I send these mini-dumps and how?

Same as the rest. 28,8 error when trying to uninstall entrenchment, no play icon for no-expansion Sins, and while I can install sins without entrenchment, once I try to update it installs entrenchment.

Worse, before today's patch I could play for about 5 minutes before hitting 2GB virtual mem and crashing, now it mini-dumps it on trying to load Sins.

You will need to manually remove the game folder, and delete 2 Registry Keys before you'll be able to re-install.

Go to C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire (or where ever you installed the game) and delete the main folder.

Then launch the System Registry (Start-> run, and type regedit)
Look for and delete the following Keys;

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Drengin.net\sins
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Drengin.net\sinsentrench

Then, reboot your PC and go back to Impulse and try installing the base game. Make sure it installs to 1.13 version, test it out before then installing entrenchment.

Right over the top of SOASE.

They want to take back contorol of there non-DRM'd game they started with and installing over the top of it was the best way, you know trying to put the cat back in the bag....