Showing who unpauses a game

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Showing who unpauses a game

Postby --- » 24 Mar 2014, 17:33

Hi guys,

whenever a game gets paused it is kinda annoying, sure. However, sometimes it is inevitable (door bell etc.) and imho people should give the player some time to sort things out. Unfortunately, some players just are not willing to wait and keep unpausing. While it is shown who pauses a game, it remains a mystery who unpauses it since there is no message telling us.

Why not add this information? This way it will be made sure that
1. the player who paused to begin with has come back and the game continues with all players present, and
2. in case there is an ignorant and rude player constantly unpausing we will know who it is (and hosts may don't want to let them join a game again).

What do you think? (Un)necessary? Too hard/impossible to implement?
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Re: Showing who unpauses a game

Postby Shai-Hulud » 24 Mar 2014, 17:36

I second that.
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Re: Showing who unpauses a game

Postby Flipper » 24 Mar 2014, 18:46

I'm fine with showing who unpauses a game. I'm MORE fine with limiting the number of pauses per player and the duration you can pause for.

I'm ok with a 2-3 minute pause, life happens, but usually not with longer than that. Either you have the time to play or you don't. It's rude to make 7 other people wait while you go and mow the lawn or do a load of laundry. All team sports that I know of have a limit on the number of and duration of timeouts. FA should be no different.
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Re: Showing who unpauses a game

Postby buletproof_bob » 24 Mar 2014, 20:15

2-3 minutes is usually enough, but as you said things happen. Who wants to ruin a game that has been going on for an hour just because someone could not wait an extra minute. Its all about common courtesy.
People that do pause though, should say so in chat. Too many times there is a pause and unpause and nobody knows whats happening or whether all players are present.
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Re: Showing who unpauses a game

Postby Plasma_Wolf » 24 Mar 2014, 23:47

Yhe number of timeouts can currently be limited to 0, 3, and infinite. I don't know if that 3 is per player or in total.

Anyway, I agree with this: put the player's name of pausing and unpausing
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Re: Showing who unpauses a game

Postby nine2 » 25 Mar 2014, 01:27

Need a limit on how many times you can UNpause the game
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Re: Showing who unpauses a game

Postby E8400-CV » 25 Mar 2014, 03:02

You can already set the numer of pauses per player...

But yeah, definitely show who unpaused.
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Re: Showing who unpauses a game

Postby ColonelSheppard » 25 Mar 2014, 11:14

Never had a problem with that. In teamgames there are like 7 other people to correct that (even though i hardly ever encountered that).
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Re: Showing who unpauses a game

Postby --- » 25 Mar 2014, 11:42

ColonelSheppard, to be blunt: I have noticed from previous posts and from this one as well that you sometimes appear rather harsh and kinda unfriendly. Additionally not to the point :(
1. You never had problem with it, ok. So what does it tells us? Introduce showing who unpaused since it wont make anything worse? Don't introduce it since you had no problem? Do something about the amount of pauses? Unclear.
2.How can 7 other people correct that? o.0 The only way would be if all the other 7 said: "Wasn't me", thus, leaving only one player who could have unpaused. And that assumes everyone a) says something and b) doesn't lie.
Also, even if 7 other players were willing to pause again until the player is back, what if the rude player keeps unpausing? Good luck with that.
Don't really get what you mean with "7 other people to correct that".
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Re: Showing who unpauses a game

Postby errorblankfield » 26 Mar 2014, 10:24

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