Last night I finally had some time to play the game. I sat down and 2 turns in I hit "30" day turn with "automatic" checked. The game started going in 5 second increments (which as we know is normal). 2 hours later it was still going 5 seconds at a time. I went to bed and when I got up 7 hours later...it was still going!
I know why this occurs but what I want to know is how common is it? Do u guys who play a lot run into this often. I don't get a lot of play time and I don't want to continue if I an going to get 1 turn in a night. I know its a game mechanic but if it is rare that a battle of this duration occurs...I'LL chalk it up to the cost of doing business.
I had a similar situation some time ago.
I looked what the NPRs where doing and found an NPR battlegroup sitting over a precursor listening post. There where also a couple of precursor sensor buoys there. The NPRs simply sat there, doing nothing. Of course, with enemy units in range, aurora thinks combat is imminent, and therefore goes for 5 second increments.
Because the NPRs weren´t doing anything, this situation would probably have lasted forever.
I ordered the NPRs to take out the buoys and deleted the outpost manually (the NPR where Meson armed, so they couldn´t blast the outpost themselfes). Immediately after this, aurora resumed running in 1 to 5 day increments.
Long story short, I do belive this is some kind of a bug and I have reported it in the bug thread here:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2027&start=30#p19622
