Relaunching definitely works, and the name changing happened again. This time it was extremely odd. There was a bandit leader party on the map, and I got a screen saying 'ERROR!!!ERROR!!!'(The ERROR!!!'s continued for a long string) has staged a comeback. Then my name was changed to this Error, etc. and the Bandit Leader's name was that as well. I changed my name back, and the bandit leader's name changed to what I changed my name to. I encountered him and he acted like a steward...Then I dismissed him and had to fight the sea raiders.
Very odd. Also, this is a mod that never crashes for me, until yesterday. Every time you try to destroy an outpost, it crashes.
The battle-log returns after you relaunch, I didn't understand the pausing concept. Do you mean doing nothing or pressing escape? Because both don't work for me. And after about 40 days ingame, the relaunching wasn't working either...
I made a test save filled with cheats to see if that affected anything, but it's the same as the others.