Gamespeed reset to 1 after pause

[Jiamil]

Hey there, not sure if I am missing something, but like a lot of people I play mainly on the higher speed settings. I pause the game when planning something, then unpause to resume the game. Here, everytime I do this, it defaults back to the base gamespeed instead of keeping the setting I usually play with.
Is there an option I am missing here? This is the first game I see that handles it like this, and it is quite annoying to be honest.

[9erRed]

Greetings,

The faster speeds are an option, not the standard speed.
- Any pauses restart at the normal speed, in case your change may have been not quite what you wanted.
- Especially in combat situations.

Better to start normal than to unexpectedly make a bad mistake, really fast.

[Fortigan]

Originally posted by Jiamil:

Hey there, not sure if I am missing something, but like a lot of people I play mainly on the higher speed settings. I pause the game when planning something, then unpause to resume the game. Here, everytime I do this, it defaults back to the base gamespeed instead of keeping the setting I usually play with.
Is there an option I am missing here? This is the first game I see that handles it like this, and it is quite annoying to be honest.

You can hit "X" 3 times to increase speed from pause to max. Not the solution you are looking for, but a very fast way to get back to the speed you want.

[Dazzy_D]

This annoys me as well as I tend to play on x4 speed.

Can't do anything regarding manual pausing but there is an option in the settings menu under the 'Gameplay' tab that is 'Reaction when enemy was spotted'. You can cycle through 'Do Nothing', 'Pause' or 'Slow Down' options.

This will stop the game dropping down to x1 speed every single smegging time the baron's troops are spotted on the map and pop out from a group of trees. Problem is, the option is currently only good for that one situation.

For any other slowdown, you'll need Fortigan's 'X' key answer.

[Oddible]

+1 If I wanted a slower speed I'd select a slower speed, I don't need the game to change my speed for me, I just need it to pause / unpause. This is unlike any other game I've ever played and it is overly controlling.

[Jiamil]

Thank you for mentioning the shortcut. But even WITH the shortcut, it feels weird not staying at the faster speed.
Feeling overly controlled is a splendid description to what this feels like, and yes, literally every single city and colony builder I played just stays at the speed you set before pause.

[karel2501]

I have never seen an RTS that would not default you to normal speed after unpausing, for a simple reason: Usually, you pause because something important is happening which will demand your full attention for the next few minutes. If unpausing would drop you back at highest speed, you'd lose control of the situation immediately.
Double tapping X after unpausing seems like a perfectly reasonable solution to your problem. The amount of frustration people would experience when pausing because a battle started, adjusting their formations, then unpausing only to see the battle happen in a flash and completely differently than they planned, is not worth the convenience you mention.

A better solution would be having hotkeys for each spead, and tapping the hotkey when paused would automatically set that speed. I'm used to games like Capitain of industry, where your speed options are at 1-3 keys and if you want to go from pause to 3x time speed, you just press 3 instead of spacebar. If 1-9 buttons are reserved for something else (I think they are planned to be reserved for combat groups, but I haven't managed to make them work yet), then Function keys can serve the same purpose.

Having only 1 button to increase speed one step up or down isn't the ideal key layout.