[Solved] Why do group scope variables reset?

So this took a looooong time to figure out what was happening. It appears that group scoped variables get reset on every event end or perhaps begin. In the screen shot below, the line that says "Add_Message" ( "SequenceIdx=" & nextTileMoveSequenceNum ), this dispays 1 over and over and over. Never increments from 1. Now, if you move the group variable nextTileMoveSequenceNum up into the global scope, it works just fine. The sequence increments as a normal person would expect.

This can't be by design. A bug I'm guessing?...

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It's by design. To make group variables like globals make then static.

It's by design. To make group variables like globals make then static.

Damn. So I missed that in the docs?

Regardless, thank you R0J0hound!