Have kids, need a damn pause button for AI games!

I find it kind of ridiculous that there is no pause menu for when playing AI. From a dev angle it surely can't take that much programming, i got kids and love this game but anytime i have to step away from the game for a real life moment i get obliterated. I can understand no pause on multiplayer, but when playing AI its a basic feature that should have been included. Please fix

Gamma is gamma beta, it will come, but currently the devs have other priorities on mind.

Yeah we should ask this once a day until they finally act. That missing pause button is pretty horrible.

Everything is currently server side, so when you're playing against AI you're technically playing multiplayer. Currently a pause button would be difficult to implement...

i know but pause should been figured out by the time of beta plus what the hell does Gamma mean lol, some kind of love child between alpha and beta?

It's pretty much just a way to get the idea of beta out of players heads.
To most people, beta has a negative connotation, so the devs made the gamma "phase" of development to sort of make people forget about the negativity and instead wonder what gamma entails.

Gamma is pretty much just beta with a new word to add a mysterious aspect to it.
(At least, that's how I understand it)

aww any one know if they confirmed they will be adding pause for AI games?

it's a given. don't worry.
the thing is you need server side running on your computer to do it. (I'd think) so it's a retail feature.

It has been confirmed for release, because that's when it will be easy to implement, since that's when they will release standalone single-player servers.

I assume it's gonna happen upon release, when we get offline play. As long as the game plays via the servers, you're technically playing a multiplayer game vs the ai, and you won't be able to have it there.

well as long as its coming down the pipeline! I must say though the orbital aspect of this game is really fun. Its like sup com with a whole new depth. Need more ships though, space battles could be pretty narly with massive eco-unfriendly battleships duking it out in orbit

That's completely false. There is no need for the server to be in our hand to implement something as simple as a pause button.

ok

Gamma is the third letter in the greek alphabet, previous to beta

I wasn't explaining why they called the phase gamma, I was saying why there is a gamma phase.

Expose it to the host.

Anyway, they said they have it built in to pause and speed up and slow down simulation speed. They just don't have it exposed playerside or built into UI.

Ultimately it is definitely coming but may not be a priority test for prerelease.

A pause button cant be that hard to implement and would increase the playability of PA far more than most other things you can do. You guys are underestimating that feature really.

Considering a lot of focus is on balancing at the moment, I'd think that could increase playability far more than a pause button.

I disagree. Even a perfectly balanced game breaks the moment a player has a disconnect and the game cannot be paused to wait for him. The whole server client setup is plain awesome to deal with such technical issues, if only the server would pause and wait for them to be resolved.

Also Uber is made up by far more than 1 person