GE battles being aborted by AI?

[Outlaw Dread]

Had this happen twice today. Auto fighting a very easy encounter in GE (lvl 1 & 2nd time, lvl2), when I get this message.

When clicked on the OK, it boots me out of GE. When I return to GE, my remaining army is clearly more than sufficient to complete the fight:


Anyone else getting this? With Inno, I'm never sure if this is a new bug, or a new "feature"

 

[drakenridder]

I've had this once but didn't make a screenshot of it. Although I'm unsure what exactly causes it, I think the main theory is that the computer determines the number of turns needed to conclude the fight (loss/win) as too many turns. Making your army to pull out of the battle to force an end (retreated). Though I can't find confirmation on this by devs or a CM.

 

[Sams512]

new feature ? draw in fights

yesturday game told me someting like this : your trroops could not win this batle your remaining troops left the batle after that screen i was chocked to see i still had 1 unit eaven if i did not win the fight is this a new feature ? forgot to do a print screen this happened on my live world...

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Here you find an answer

 

[Outlaw Dread]

Can one of the mods kindly share some insight onto this issue?

 

[Outlaw Dread]

Ah, ok, I saw juber's reply. Don't think it makes sense however. My same army, with no replacements or units healed, beat the same AI army the next time (1 min later) using auto-fight again. So how can the AI force a retreat with all new units, but allow the same (now damaged) units to fight and (easily) win?
Seems more a bug than any type of logical response.

 

[drakenridder]

Ah, ok, I saw juber's reply. Don't think it makes sense however. My same army, with no replacements or units healed, beat the same AI army the next time (1 min later) using auto-fight again. So how can the AI force a retreat with all new units, but allow the same (now damaged) units to fight and (easily) win?
Seems more a bug than any type of logical response.

Probably the terrain has impacted the battle. As terrain can impact how many turns are required to complete a battle. Assuming the theory is correct, that the AI forces a retreat if the battle isn't concluded after a set number of turns, it's probably the cause. Speculation from my side is that the AI can compute a maximum number of turns, if a battle exceeds that number it calls in for a retreat. Judging it as a draw or a stalemate. Broken by the forced retreat. Even though it's not a true draw/stalemate.

 

[shad2389]

already started a thread about this :

new feature ? draw in fights

yesturday game told me someting like this : your trroops could not win this batle your remaining troops left the batle after that screen i was chocked to see i still had 1 unit eaven if i did not win the fight is this a new feature ? forgot to do a print screen this happened on my live world...

forum.beta.forgeofempires.com