[Suggestion] Pausing and Giving Commands

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by thetrophysystem, July 16, 2014.

  1. thetrophysystem

    thetrophysystem Post Master General

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    Should a pause allow a person to give commands to units during it? Basically, the UI stays put, the simulation is paused, orders can still be sent and are all issued instantly upon unpause. Good for learning games, newbies playing singleplayer, and just tweaking queues if someone pauses for bathroom in multiplayer.

    Idea obtained from playing much "Faster Than Light".
  2. SXX

    SXX Post Master General

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    Yes it's should work as it's now. My reasoning here is simple: there should not be any anti-cheat limits on client side. E.g even if server won't accept commands while sim paused it's likely will be fairly easy to implement "hack" that send bulk commands once sim unpaused, or just slowly send pre-defined commands in background to avoid "too high APM".

    I think that gentlemen rules and replays work a lot better than something that can't be enforced by server-side.
  3. Geers

    Geers Post Master General

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    I'd like to be able to do this, to set up elaborate scenarios. Where's the pasue button/key/command thing?
    squishypon3 likes this.

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