Unpausing game

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Hello!

 

Last time I played a 2v2, had my ally Champ against two strange stat noobs (10 games 10 wins both, so probably smurfs thats why we were allied against them), things were going well, the two noobs were unsurprisingly not that noobs.. but not this is the main thing.

 

After like an hour of gaming Champ paused the game for minutes, I guess he had something important to do because he didn't tell why he paused, after some minutes one player named Crimson Tide (or something similar) unpaused the game and easily defeated Champ's fleet that wasn't controlled (he had colonized planets between the two smurfs that needed full attention from him to handle well). What to say I left after this, I won't play with stupid players who cheat to weaken my ally this way while he is not looking....

 

So the question, what is the proper way of handling pauses? Is it allowed to unpause the game after like 4 minutes totally f*cking the other team up and completely ruining the otherwise good challenging game because someone has something important to do?

 

I was quite angry after this match, am I overreacting?

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Did Champ come back?  There are always asses, but it would have helped if he had said to all why he was pausing.  Did the other two try to talk to you about what was going on before they unpaused?

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting slowreflex, reply 1
Did Champ come back?  There are always asses, but it would have helped if he had said to all why he was pausing.  Did the other two try to talk to you about what was going on before they unpaused?

 

When paused chat doesn't work, one player said HELLO (not the one who unpaused), maybe he didn't know what happened,, and I guess Champ had something really important to do and that's why he didn't tell why he paused, maybe he didn't even have time for this, I can think of good reasons for this.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Ah, it's unfortunate you can't talk when paused.  I haven't paused yet so didn't know.  ^_^

Seems like being able to talk when paused would help with things like this though.  I play DOTA2 where you can do that and people are more understanding when you can talk about it.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

I don't really know much games where pause interferes with chatting.. It is a really stupid thing, it would be good to pass time at least talking to the others while the pausing folk gets back.. :/

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

What, I'm pretty sure I've used the chat while paused. >_<

 

But anyways, the pause feature should not be used in multiplayer unless everyone agrees to use it. It was rude of Champ to pause the game unless it was an absolute emergency, and if you don't say why you are using pause I have to say it is entirely his fault. No one wants to sit there for no reason because someone else maybe has an issue.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 6
What, I'm pretty sure I've used the chat while paused.

 

But anyways, the pause feature should not be used in multiplayer unless everyone agrees to use it. It was rude of Champ to pause the game unless it was an absolute emergency, and if you don't say why you are using pause I have to say it is entirely his fault. No one wants to sit there for no reason because someone else maybe has an issue.

 

Well I guess it must have been an emergency.. It was a so strange situation, it was a good game and then this happens..

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

If it's a such an emergency you can't take 15 seconds to tell people you need to pause (and this is if you know it won't take more than 5 minutes) then take the loss, a stat point isn't worth the rudeness to other players to expect them to sit around staring at a frozen screen not knowing how long the person will be gone or even why they paused in the first place.