Why, can't you just exit to menu like everyone else?
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Newcomer / Intro So Solo Play Won't Let You Pause The Game???
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Why, can't you just exit to menu like everyone else?
This is the newcomers forum. I think it would be sensible here to allow new players some time to wrap their heads around the way this game works before we expect them to really comprehend the technical limitations preventing standard single player features from being available ED's Solo mode.
AND they removed the word "PAUSE" from the menu screen itself. Nice!
Now if they'd just make it look a little less like the game is paused we might see fewer of these posts.
The menu item in the pause^h^h^h^h^h menu screen still says "Resume" though.. how can you "resume" if nothing was paused / suspended..
They really could avoid all this confusion with one piece of warning text on the game menu, maybe put in a ticking clock too to show the world is still going on. Not doing so - when it's such an easy fix - seems almost a bit petty. It's almost as if they want people to mess this up, then laugh at them.
The menu item in the pause^h^h^h^h^h menu screen still says "Resume" though.. how can you "resume" if nothing was paused / suspended..
They really could avoid all this confusion with one piece of warning text on the game menu, maybe put in a ticking clock too to show the world is still going on. Not doing so - when it's such an easy fix - seems almost a bit petty. It's almost as if they want people to mess this up, then laugh at them.
I think a visual cue would help a lot too: rather than dim out most of the screen, just block out the portion necessary for the visible text. That would highlight for the newer players that the game was still chugging along.
AND they removed the word "PAUSE" from the menu screen itself. Nice!
Now if they'd just make it look a little less like the game is paused we might see fewer of these posts.
Yep, even with the word removed, it looks a lot like a pause mode, and is an obvious trap for the unwary. Maybe making the underlying game more visible while in the menu might be a start, so people can see stuff still going on without them.. This one comes up way more often than the tools who fly without insurance and make stupid ragequit threads, which makes me suspect that in this case folks have a legitimate concern- after being mislead by poor UI design.
All good points, and I would add that if you were to introduce the ability for NPCs to magically ignore the player while 'paused' in solo mode, this would strengthen the arguments of those who say that players should not be allowed to move freely between open, private group and solo play. Clearly AIs can't be paused in multi-player mode, so to allow this for solo players only would give a significant, concrete advantage to playing in solo. I am very much against any restrictions on moving between modes, I think the current system is good, and I think any solo only 'pause' mode would call this into question.
Which would be quite reasonable if people came along and asked courteous questions instead of stamping their feet and assuming that everything was a poor design choice/irrational/broken/incomprehensible. It would be nice to see a question along the lines of "hey guys, I can't see any obvious reason why we can't pause the game in solo mode, am I missing something?"
We're supposed to be coming here to help new players. Some of those new players will just be discovering how willing ED is to kick them in the teeth if they let it. Right or wrong, some of them are going to be pretty unhappy when they come here, and they're going to be looking for someone to blame. There isn't a good reason for the more experienced players, who ostensibly are coming here with the intent of HELPING, to come here without a level head and a bit of patience.
If you want to go have at someone and Defend Your Game, the Dangerous Discussion forum has no shortage of opportunities for that.
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I'm probably misreading this but is that really what you meant?
I was just running the training missions yesterday, and when you hit escape there, it has warning text about "Escaping to Menu in game play does not pause the game". Or something to that effect, I don't remember the exact wording.
It wasn't very prominent though, it would be easy to miss. And it wouldn't hurt to add it to the in-game menus.
It wasn't very prominent though, it would be easy to miss. And it wouldn't hurt to add it to the in-game menus.
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Oops. What I meant was "I probably shouldn't be posting to the ED forums while I'm in a meeting with my boss".
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There isn't a good reason for the more experienced players, who ostensibly are coming here with the intent of HELPING, to come here without a level head and a bit of patience.
Gilmour
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Well duh, All we need to have paused is our own little solo instance, the worlds do not need to stop spinning lol, that's just logic. So you think that an NPC that is in my solo instance is also in all other instances at the same time, and if we are in combat every other player can see that NPC but not see me because I am in solo?? That makes no sense, you may need to rethink that one.
Also if I am still in your universe but you can't see me, I could, in theory, make your ship visible to me but keep mine invisible to you and blast your socks off and you could do nothing about it, that sounds like a good way to build a game.
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rootsrat
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Ok, but what about the orbitting planets?
What's wrong with exitting to Main Menu anyway? It's not like it takes some ennormous extra effort.
I went for a pee just 5 minutes ago, and came back to my Keelback, to read 'Ship destroyed by Professor Cambray'. Nice. Cost me 600,000 for the rebuy. Full of two hours of core mining. I've learned an expensive lesson, as well as finding a new reason to save for a combat ship.
If not the record, it must be closeWow, a thread from 2015. Nice job of necro'ing!
If you spent more time paying attention to the game and less to searching for old threads to necro* then you might make more progress.
* (One a week at the moment.)
A "necrord" perhaps?If not the record, it must be close
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