Pause Button and Reconnect Option

[𝕋𝕁]

Why is there no pause button or reconnect option?

Even in most multiplayer mobile games there is an option to reconnect.
I have a good Internet connection but today ~1 hour long 2v2 game crashed for no apparent reason and I quickly relaunched it but turned out I can't connect to the game and what's even more annoying, my friend can't control my units, they became neutral...

P.S. Worth noting it's the first crash in 70+ hours I played but still I think the pause and reconnect options should be added.

[The Cremator]

good Idea! I am with you there! :)

[Plastic Master]

It is real-time strategy game. Which means there is no pause in between.
If you pause. It is not RTS.........

[Graybullet]

Originally posted by Plastic iZ Da wAe!:

It is real-time strategy game. Which means there is no pause in between.
If you pause. It is not RTS.........

Having pause never disqualifies a game from a RTS. You can't deny that all the games under "RTS using active pause" in this list (including AOE2 and 3) are REAL-TIME strategy games, can you?

The following two features define what REAL-TIME games are:
1. You and your opponent can make decisions at the same time. There is no distinction between "first-move" and "second-move" players (as opposed to "I-go-you-go" turn-based games).
2. The time is continuous, not discrete. A player can give orders at ANY time (as opposed to "We-go" turn-based games).

P.S. In multiplayer games, it makes sense to disallow or have some restrictions on how many pauses a player can make. But for solo games, adding pause is a Pareto improvement.

[76561198356019466]

Originally posted by Plastic iZ Da wAe!:

It is real-time strategy game. Which means there is no pause in between.
If you pause. It is not RTS.........

I've played dozens of RTS and most of them have P&P.

[Rinky]

Originally posted by Graybullet:

Originally posted by Plastic iZ Da wAe!:

It is real-time strategy game. Which means there is no pause in between.
If you pause. It is not RTS.........

Having pause never disqualifies a game from a RTS. You can't deny that all the games under "RTS using active pause" in this list (including AOE2 and 3) are REAL-TIME strategy games, can you?

The following two features define what REAL-TIME games are:
1. You and your opponent can make decisions at the same time. There is no distinction between "first-move" and "second-move" players (as opposed to "I-go-you-go" turn-based games).
2. The time is continuous, not discrete. A player can give orders at ANY time (as opposed to "We-go" turn-based games).

P.S. In multiplayer games, it makes sense to disallow or have some restrictions on how many pauses a player can make. But for solo games, adding pause is a Pareto improvement.

lmao

[𝕋𝕁]

Originally posted by Plastic iZ Da wAe!:

It is real-time strategy game. Which means there is no pause in between.
If you pause. It is not RTS.........

My suggestion that this option is not a part of gameplay and everybody should use it to stop and think but that it's reserved for extreme cases such as disconnections, small breaks, etc.

Just look at Dota 2 and how pause button is implemented there. If a teammate has some problem, he can pause the game and ask to wait a bit and in case opponents don't want it they can cancel the pause after a short time and also, you can't pause frequently.

Anyway, IMO there should be at least option to reconnect and some small time period for reconnection.

[Popori]

for me i just want to be able to reconnect It is will be great if we have this , the game crash so much, at least 5 mins max time to reconnect i think.