Is this normal? Infinite loop

[althena1]

Im playing a tweaked huge map on deity level (256x256) with 16 civs using the updated patch, and the game has already reached the max number of cities (i only had the time to build 22

Now i ended by turn and the computer tried to make a city, so his settler makes a citiy, it gets cancelled. He tries making the city again, it gets cancelled. And so on, it went for minutes and didnt stop

Is this a bug that will be fixed in the next patch or is there a way to make the computer stop being so stubborn about making new cities...

[Kolyana]

WAHAY! Another bug!

Post it in the bug thread, send it to the Firaxis guys, try to dig out the Firaxis emails of Dan etc and send it to them personally.

It's an oversiht on their behalf and an indication of the weakness behind the AI engine in Civ3. It'll have to be fixed soon, because it's obviously a glaring and problematic error.

[yin26]

oversiht

That was allllmost a Freudian slip. Anyway, one can only hope that not all games fall into an infinite loop when max cities is reached!

[Kolyana]

OMG, I'd edit it ... but it seems to say *SO* much