Acual pause buttion

[Cardinal Lord Holland]

I know this is casual but I hate having to do something and coming back and is night or hours later in game. like a pause in menu or something. it's not as big of deal now but if you add timed events later it could be a real problem.

[Steelfleece]

Opening inventory semi-pauses the game. I say semi-pauses because time stops passing, but other things continue to happen. Machines at work like the fabricator will continue working, and critters will continue going about their current business (not sure if they'll start anything new), but if you opened the inventory at 3:10pm, when you close it it'll still be 3:10pm.

This means you can open the inventory screen in your workshop, go make dinner, take a shower, eat, and come back to close said inventory and see the machines' timers have gone down considerably and some may be finished - while the time of day in game hasn't changed. Critters may have wandered across the island doing whatever they were doing, orrrr may be still in bed or at work, depending on where they already were. You can't use this to cheat tourists though, as they don't seem to start on anything new while the inventory's open so they won't spend any money.

[Sheral♥♥♥]

Originally posted by Steelfleece:

Opening inventory semi-pauses the game. I say semi-pauses because time stops passing, but other things continue to happen. Machines at work like the fabricator will continue working, and critters will continue going about their current business (not sure if they'll start anything new), but if you opened the inventory at 3:10pm, when you close it it'll still be 3:10pm.

This means you can open the inventory screen in your workshop, go make dinner, take a shower, eat, and come back to close said inventory and see the machines' timers have gone down considerably and some may be finished - while the time of day in game hasn't changed. Critters may have wandered across the island doing whatever they were doing, orrrr may be still in bed or at work, depending on where they already were. You can't use this to cheat tourists though, as they don't seem to start on anything new while the inventory's open so they won't spend any money.

I went to take some naps to heal and the tourists came 2 more naps later they were leaving. I only made 900 on that visit instead of 4000.

[mmel1313]

it loses money if you sleep thru tourist time. i think its being worked on.

[miss dibley]

If you hit "Esc" but don't actually click the exit buttons, game time will pause.

[Cardinal Lord Holland]

Thanks miss dibley yes the sleep through tourist time sucks. Should be a pause text to let us know time stopped but I'm grateful knowing that now.