Pause abuse

[Farmsletje]

So 2 days ago i played a game where i attempted a tml snipe on a nuke. What happened was the following: I launched my tml's and just 2 seconds before they were to connect to the unshielded nuke (with no tmd) someone from the other team paused to give their ally time to try to t2 shieldblock the tml's. In my opinion it is just clearly abuse/misuse of the pause option to give your team an unfair advantage. In this case it didn't work because of the height difference in the terrain which made the tml shoot over the now attempted shields blocks, but it that weren't the case it would've meant that their nuke survived and that could've massively changed the rest of the game.

It's the same with tml snipes on acu's. When i see my favorite tml king Peplomord try another 4x tml snipe on an ally of mine, i ping relentlessly to try and warn him about the incoming missiles so he can dodge them. It would be absolute bullshit if i could just pause the game, wait until my ally knows about it and moves, unpause and the tml snipe will simply fail, while it could've worked otherwise.

At the moment this is just deemed as "bad manners" but in my opinion people shouldn't be allowed to do this and it should be added to the list of banned exploits. I want to know your opinions about this if possible.

PS: Video link to when it happened
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF1uoTR ... e&t=31m11s

[JaggedAppliance]

Innovative way to plug your channel, nice one.

I guess it should be added to the list, it is bs.

[Farmsletje]

Innovative way to plug your channel, nice one.

Damn i got exposed.

[Exotic_Retard]

while i agree its bad manners indeed, there isnt tooooo much we can do about it, save for banning people who do it,

it might be enough, it might not, and it could lead to shady situations where the pause was genuine, or claimed to be so, since its not so easy to prove it happened.

so yeah, should not be done but not sure if stopping it would be easy and straightforward

[CookieNoob]

easiest way would be to disable the pause function as long as tml is on the way, someone is teleporting or strat/figherbomber are 3 seconds away from droping. When paused in that time, the pause will be delayed until these conditions are not met anymore (this is only a few seconds).

I am not saying we should do that, but that would be the solution I see for this.

[Brutus5000]

easiest way would be to disable the pause function as long as tml is on the way, someone is teleporting or strat/figherbomber are 3 seconds away from droping. When paused in that time, the pause will be delayed until these conditions are not met anymore (this is only a few seconds).

I am not saying we should do that, but that would be the solution I see for this.

No. Easiest way is pursuing administrative action and some sort of punishment.
Your way requires development and heavy testing. We are short on developers and on testers.
As far as I know we are not short on moderators.

[Gorton]

since its not so easy to prove it happened.

That's the issue. Report things like this, i'll add it to banned stuff. Exact times will be required for us to check, as replays do show pausing... and any chat as well, unless voice chat is used.


Disabling pausing during certain things is ... a kinda silly. Not only does it break the very function of pause, if you try and pause and it won't let you - > you're told info about your enemy.

[Mycen]

So in a desperate attempt to alert an ally who is not paying attention you pause the game... then your opponent immediately unpauses it before your inattentive ally can react, and the attack connects.

Hardly seems like a serious issue to me?

[Farmsletje]

Plot twist. The 'inattentive ally' did react. If you watch the video you'll see he tries to block it with the shield > reacting.

Aside from that you're totally missing the point. My experience was just 1 example. Read my post again and you'll find an answer to your question.

@Cookienoob: That sounds like a pretty stupid idea xD

[ZeRen]

if someone pause game, then others(you) can unpause game, not sure but I am think it is possible, or am I wrong?