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What kind of things cause the AI step to go up to a number like 780 and keep going?

I was playtesting my Third Reich scenario. Got as far as mid 1941, and now it's stuck on AI step 810 and still climbing.

The couple of turns before this were about AI step 100 etc, so I guess somethings gone wrong. No save game file to show unfortunatley, but I guess it's something to do with events. I'll go through and look what events I've written to occur in mid 1941. But any ideas on the kind of thing? Is it some sort of loop effect. i.e. a 10GO TO 20, 20 GO TO 10 event?

936 now, guess i'm gonna have to give up on this game and find whats wrong. [&:]

I can't see how or why it would create a loop. But this is the only event running in mid 1941.

Does it need a block event?

its not the events.
 
but i do not know what is. You can have done a lot of things in the editor that make it do this.
 
if you can send me a savefile from which it is directly reproducable if I press end turn, please send it to vic@xs4all.nl
 
thanks for reporting!
 
kind regards,
Vic

Cheers Vic. I've disabled the event and am playtesting again. I'll save every turn now, and try and get it to do the same again. Apart from that the first version of the scenario is finished.
 
I wasn't really playing last time, conquered france to check the events out, then just let the brits expand from Greece whilst i was pressing next turn, waiting for Russia to declare war on me when she saw her chance. Didn't get that far [&:]

What does the number with the AI step mean?
And what should the average number be?

Playing WAWv32 and it's Summer 1940 my AI step is climbing to 300 two times in a row. Broken off both times. Could it be that the saved scenario is somehow corrupted?

It's a bit of a pain. It takes my PC quite a while to take it's turn only to find out that I can start up the game once again.

Mat

@british,
 
The number is only there to show the AI is still alive and thinking. I figured with the long think times it would be neccessary, if only to notify the player the programm hasnt frozen.
 
In the past i had sporadic reports about unending number climbing and no end to AI turn. I thought i fixed the last of this cases with v1.15. If anyone can still reproduce this from a savefile please send it to me at vic@xs4all.nl
 
kind regards,
vic