Auto Unpause/Pause has to go!!

[DocDetroit]

This is a MAJOR annoyance ! I was helping an ally and we just got a white peace... the big peace agreement pops up in the middle of he screen and 3 or 4 other things which I of course thought they were part of the events of the war, (prisoners released etc). Little did I know... as I'm reading it I'm getting raided and my city is sacked! You see, as soon as I see the victory screen, I paused the game, but either that auto paused it, or one of the other events did. There is no way of seeing it or telling as all the screen is taken up with the overlay popups!
And, please don't tell me to use the buttons in the bottom right... the game designers put this BIG Paused and Unpaused thing on the screen for some reason.. was it just to Fxxx with people?? remove it or put it somewhere that you can see it over the popups... will be another 5 years rebuilding that town, now.

[ste]

In the bottom corner, its either green for playing, red for paused, and like a red striped caution sign for auto paused. And it also makes a noise .You can pause an auto pause.

[bri]

You can also change the settings for the various message types to pop-up without pausing the game (or not pop up at all)...

[DocDetroit]

Thanks bri, that is kinda what I was shooting for. Anything closer to the way EU4 was. If i can either autopause everything or nothing. Just makes it hard when only some things do and some things dont.

Thanks !! I didnt see that, ill look for it again

[DocDetroit]

Originally posted by bri:

You can also change the settings for the various message types to pop-up without pausing the game (or not pop up at all)...

I've looked everywhere for that setting and cannot find it. maybe on a menu before you start the game?

[Zippo]

AFAIK, there is no such option in the vanilla settings.

[Dufflebags]

Never had the game auto unpause.

[DocDetroit]

it is possible that most popups dont pause the game and I hit the pause button automatically to pause and read it, therefore unpausing it since on SOME popups it autopauses.. and I don't really have the time during a heated war to look down.. easier when my hitting pause is automatic or the game does it automatically, not some one way, and some the other.

[cermiosi]

if somebody is still having trouble with auto-pause, i just made this mod which sould get rid of it: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2930776602

[DocDetroit]

good one! I used to play EU4 and you could adjust for what events pause the game. That would be optimal, but the "no pause" would be good. Thanks!

[CrUsHeR]

Stellaris has the same problem. I think it has something to do with PDX wanting to force multiplayer/eSports for their games.

> Press space to pause the game
> An event pop-up fires the same moment, so your space press actually unpauses
> Notice the problem and press space AGAIN
> Another event pop-up fires
> Repeat 7 times


CK2 had a 100% hard lock on event windows to prevent exactly this issue, why don't Stellaris and CK3 have that?