A Pause Button

[Brrokk]

We almost have what I want with the menu logout, this is just a UI change.

I want to be able to bind a key to "pause game" so that when the phone rings I just hit that key and go. It will essentially do a logout from the menu, automatically answering "yes" if there's an in-danger timeout.

But it won't go right back to the main menu. When I return from the phone I just have a "continue" option on the screen which logs me back in to the same mode I was in previously. Or possibly a rebuy screen.

(Please don't start all that stuff about whether menu logging is dishonourable and how long the timer should be; this is just a UI change, with no effect on gameplay).

 

[pippo]

On the main menu, just select offline mode. There's a pause key there.

 

[Raino]

Pause? there is no such thing like Pause, the galaxy keeps on turning...

the only way is to log off

 

[dm06]

What I would like to have - do not wait for 15 seconds to press the button. It should logout automatically on whatever seconds timeout. I may have raised priorities in the real life which forced me to interrupt the game, I just can't waste 15 seconds.

 

[Factabulous]

Might be worth a rejig so that rather than having to wait X seconds then hit 'ok' it sends just you back to the main menu when the timer expires - forcing you to wait when something IRL happens isn't the greatest. So it should assume you want to exit, but with an option to cancel and return to the game.

 

[Florenus]

On the main menu, just select offline mode. There's a pause key there.

What game are you talking about?
Or is this sarcasm I didn't get?

If, by any chance, you think that in Solo mode game is paused when you press the menu key (ESC on PC), then you're in for a surprise.

 

[Para Handy]

So a menu-log key in other words. PvP peeps would love that. LOL

 

[Brrokk]

So a menu-log key in other words. PvP peeps would love that. LOL

With the usual timer. No change to gameplay, just a UI feature.

 

[Para Handy]

With the usual timer. No change to gameplay, just a UI feature.

Changing to a single keystroke - yes I think PvP peeps would disagree with you. (N.B. I am not a PvPer.)

 

[nanite2000]

Pause? there is no such thing like Pause, the galaxy keeps on turning...

the only way is to log off

I see you failed to read the OP. Good job.

 

[nanite2000]

With the usual timer. No change to gameplay, just a UI feature.

Changing to a single keystroke - yes I think PvP peeps would disagree with you. (N.B. I am not one.)

With the usual timer. No change to gameplay, just a UI feature.

 

[Raino]

I see you failed to read the OP. Good job.

Well i did, thats why i complained, calling it "Pause" is just wrong

 

[Brrokk]

Well i did, thats why i complained, calling it "Pause" is just wrong

Well, sorry, it was an attempt at wit, but maybe a dated one. There was a time when "Why can't multi-player games have a pause button?" was a thing. It was often an amusing discussion between teen gamers and their parents at teatime.

 

[Lestat]

It not hard to log off into the main menu. So it, not a real feature we need.

 

[Azmuth Divarchchron]

Game is always online.
There will never be a pause button.

 

[Brrokk]

Oh dear.

 

[Factabulous]

1st rule of forum posts: No-one reads the actual OP
2nd rule for forum posts : No-one reads what anyone else wrote either

 

[Red Anders]

No idea why I liked the above post, I didn't read it.

 

[Azmuth Divarchchron]

1st rule of forum posts: No-one reads the actual OP
2nd rule for forum posts : No-one reads what anyone else wrote either

Did you just say I dont read? How dare you sir.

 

[Factabulous]

Dammit - 3rd rule of forum posts: No-one reads unless you say that they don't, in which case they do