Firstly I already understand about other NPR's fighting each other and that slows the game down to 10 second or whatever intervals.
I am now 14 years into a new game, have found a friendly alien race (phew) and up until just recently when I click for a 5 day turn the game progressed for 5 days, unless rarely the computer deemed it necessary to interupt me for some reason, and always I could see why the interupt occured on the events log.
However just this last few months have taken forever to run through because the game interupts for no apparent reason at intervals of anything from two hours to 10 hours and rarely for more than a day.
I have Auto turns checked and it is on auto sub-pulses and no explanation appears in the event log as to why the turn was shortened.
I turned on SM mode and made sure it was selected in the events log but still no news as to why the turns are being reduced.
Any idea's?
ps. this is about the 20th game I have played on this install but I delete every game I played before starting a new one. Could this be the reason?
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