the more you fix this bug, the more you have to do the next time it arises. for example my first time with this loop was still early, around 1400. i just gave everyone a ship and that solved it. my second time with this was 1600s and i had to delete EVERY ship in the game to get it to solve. my third time with this was 1700s and i had to delete two nations entirely from the game. the last time i got this there was no solution except perhaps to delete more nations but this weakens the balance of power and makes you the only stable nation on earth...and guess who wins when everyone else is being exterminated every 100 years? sound fun? thought not.

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