I type fast and loose, and I edited that post a couple times but the edits didn't show, so you get the raw love of my sloppy typing.

Sims 3 has a simulator that runs, evaluating the various input conditions and producing output conditions.  Most parsers/simulators have a static value somewhere that says: "how long do we let a given method/function run before we stop it?", that's called MAX_EVAL in some places, so I used that name for shorthand.

I don't know why this is happening.  I wish I did.  I suspect that something is in a loop, either self-referencing, bad references or loops... What we really lack is a way to break the program and ask it wtf it is hung up on. That would help isolate stuff.