Gilmour
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It's only impossible for FD to do it, other games do it all the time.
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Great idea, I will do this as well.
Can we get a real "Pause" function in solo mode?
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Even though Solo mode is still online, it could maybe have a 'freeze' function and then catchup with the open play data when resuming.
So, if I was doing an assassination mission or community goal that was almost over, could I hop to solo, pause, go to bed, wake up, and still have time left to complete these things?
You can already partially do this, a lot of people forget you can simply drop out of supercruise, and save and exit, game will remember where you are, and it takes only moments. Yes timers for missions will continue but that's really not that bad considering how long some of them are.
You don't even need to drop out of SC I believe... Just Save and exit... (ESC and a click) Done...
So you can Save & Exit... And Return into SOLO in 5-10 seconds... Basically achieving a perfectly reasonable pause facility.
[But as stated, game time continues to roll on!]
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I think some players never really played a solo game before, seriously.
Solo modes have pause buttons. Go all the way back to the games in the 80s, it had a pause.
ED is a hybrid game, but there is no reason to not have a pause option in solo mode (especially when logging on again maybe longer than making a sandwich, eating and then going to the restroom -- that login is long). In WoW, a MMO, it doesn't have a pause button but the same effect can be achieved simply finding somewhere safe to stand (or fly) -- so, really there isn't an excuse even for a persistent world.
People have calls; visitors and emergencies that saving is not an option (the latter I experienced when my mom died literally as I was online in WoW). Persistent worlds isn't an excuse to NOT have a pause function at all.
Can't believe this is even a discussion, too.
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No different that abusing a player's wallet for a half finished game. -_-
The issue clearly is FD just trying to create a one solution fits all, so they don't have to spend (waste?) unnecessary time on one specific game mode.
As it stands no matter what mode you're in, the mechanics are basically shared across them. Which isn't necessarily such a bad thing, and is certainly better from a code/exploit POV.
At the moment, worse case, you press ESC and select "Save and Exit to Menu"... Done. It takes a few seconds. If you're in combat, you may have set off at full speed and wait for 15 seconds.
With any of those you can rejoin basically exactly where you left off.
And should something serious happen, like your mother dying (I can't believe you actually used your mother's death as discussion point regarding a pause option?
) just shut the machine down/nuke the process. You'll return exactly where you left off.
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Been said so many times, SOLO isnt single player, you are basically playing the same live, multi-player game with all the other players filtered out, that's all it is.
unless he goes to the restroom a lot.
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I'm also against pause. For reasons already mentioned by others.
However, since you are in a seperate instance at a NAV-beacon or a RES, you could technically pause that instance, but nothing else. meaning: as soons as you leave the instance, you would get re-synchronised with the rest of the game - e.g. your mission timer would not have stopped, Market data was updated and you are a few thousand kilometers away from the res you where just in, because the planet actually moved further while your instance did not.
However, since you are in a seperate instance at a NAV-beacon or a RES, you could technically pause that instance, but nothing else. meaning: as soons as you leave the instance, you would get re-synchronised with the rest of the game - e.g. your mission timer would not have stopped, Market data was updated and you are a few thousand kilometers away from the res you where just in, because the planet actually moved further while your instance did not.
Philip Coutts
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You just can't have a pause it would pause everyone in the worlds game. Saving and exiting to the menu takes a couple of seconds so you will have to get by with that.
+1. If you're in an instance containing exactly one person, there's no reason why it can't be paused. So long as externally-timed events (such as missions and Community Goals) aren't paused with it, I see no issues. I can see technical hassles if the servers are only set up to work "live", as it were. In that eventuality, the situation can possibly be improved by adding quick-save/quick-load option - the heavy lifting for saving games is already done, the server and client would save to a more-quickly-restored cache, rather than the complete instance-closedown we have now. FD, the game and all players in open and solo would all potentially benefit if it reduces the amount of work the servers have to do.