One trigger to boot them all...

Recently, while toying around with the editor, my friend and I discovered one simple trigger that would boot everybody in the game. This is not like any ordinary booting trigger; It will not say "You lose, Quit Campaign", or even crash and give you a fatal error message... it just... boots you. Warcraft closes and you are back in windows staring at your desktop with NO error message.
All you need is this:

Event:
Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing hi as An exact match

Action:
Trigger - Run (This trigger) (checking conditions)


Basically, the trigger runs itself indefinatly and causes Warcraft III to overload.

Attached is a map for you to test it out. All you need to do is type: hi

o.O That's really odd, I'd expect a fatal error window to come up.

*evil grin*

Well it's probably 'cause it will make an infinite loop of "Run THIS TRIGGER" and it will never stop. I still don't know why it doesn't give an error message...

Nice find, but if it was targetted for only one person, I COULD make it so when you say "****" <-Insert swear word, you can make the swearing person think "What the ****?!"

LoL! I wish that also. I also hate how now if you make someone booted it wont mess up the tooltips! Grrr!

There are plenty of ways to create infinite loops, but they usually involve a trigger somehow causing something to happen which goes on the cause the trigger to run itself again, without any waits in it so it instantly runs itself after it finishes. That is the easiest way to do it though. You won't get an error message, but if you check the error log there should be something there about it being an infinite loop :P

heres another fun trigger

event-unit enters region a

action-create 5 units in region a


crashes game lol

So infinite loops crash the game, I am sure I already knew this 6 months ago.

how do u make it so it dosent infinte loop and crash? I cant figrure it out

a wait before the run (this trigger)?