No pause

[suppa]

Is this true? The game has no pause and give orders function?

[Gillsing]

There's the Team Stims skill for the Support Agent, and you can choose a mode where you start with that skill maxed out. At that point time moves at 10%, so for every second you get ten seconds to think and give orders. I consider that quite enough for the purpose of telling my agents where to go and what to do. But it's not a chess game where you can take your sweet time and ponder each move for several minutes.

Though in single player mode the game does pause completely whenever you go to the mission control screens. So that's still good for when you have to do something else for a while. In multiplayer mode the game never pauses completely.

[Sir Pencil]

To complement GIllsing's response above, I've found the Team Stims skill to be far more than sufficient for giving me time to stop and plan out my actions. Your mileage may vary, but the Support agent can keep the effect going for quite awhile, and 3 districts into the game I've never found myself in a situation where a few seconds here or there have cost me the mission.

[Caldor]

I completed the game 2 times without using any other pause than going to the management screens to look at missions, switch clones, level up, research and equip items. The Team Stims do the job pretty well and there is an option to start with the skill at max level, which gives you, I think it is at least 4 minutes to plan your moves, later its probably 8-15 minutes when you have more energy and a higher energy regeneration rare, while using less energy on active skills because of leadership and more.

[♡ Katalina Aryze ♡]

RTS genre is different from Real Time-With-Pause... hence why different games pop up when you search for each of these.

[Caldor]

There is a pause and give orders function now, you can get it by using the modding system. The example mod 5 Lives has made makes it possible to pause the game with the pause key, and then you can give orders and scroll around with the arrow keys.

http://www.5livesstudios.com/index.html

They got a link to the github of the example mod.

I made a modified version of it, that has the pause they have made, but more stuff as well. I complied it to the DLL file needed, and you can use it by downloading it. Make a folder called "Mods" in the Satellite Reign installtion folder, and put this DLL file into it, then the next time you run the game it should say "MODDED" in the bottom right of the creen at some point when loading the game.

Here is a link for my mod:
http://dionysus.dk/devstuff/downloads/Pause.dll

[Caldor]

Here is a list of keys that can be used with the mod. I was trying things out, but pressing numpad 8 randomized how the currently selected agents look. There seems to be no simple way of changing their looks like skin color, hair color, hair type etc. but you can change their sex. When you press M you change the sex of all selected agents. Here is the full list of keys:

** Key: Pause ** action: Pauses game tactically. You can still give orders, and use arrow keys to scroll around.

** Key: Backspace ** action: Takes or loses control of any human or mech you have selected. Beware, you can even lose control of your agents, but you can select them again with the number keys.

** Key: Insert ** action: Gives any selected agent a skill boost and a plasma rifle. Also gets an extra weapon slot and more, so you can click it several times to get more slots, but when you get above max it will stop working. Can be solved by respawning your agent or agents.

** Key: N ** action: If your agent has a clone with modifiers, this key will increase those modifiers to a much higher value.

** Key: Page Up and Page Down ** action: The selected agent will switch to a weapon higher or lower than the current weapon.

** Key: Del ** action: Enables cheat mode. All agents will be unable to die or lose energy, until you respawn your agents or click the key again.

** Key: keypad plus and minus ** action: Pauses increases or decreases the speed of the game. It seems to have a max, and it cannot go below zero, at zero it pauses. You can pause the game and unpause to get back to normal speed.

** Key: M ** action: Changes the sex of any selected agent. Sex 0: both, sex 1: male, sex 2: female. It goes from 0 to 1 to 2. This also respawns the selected agents.

** Key: End ** action: All selected agents become female and increase the randomseed by 10. Selected agents also respawn.

** Key: Keypad 8 ** action: Selected agents gets a random sex and body and is respawned with it.

** Key: Keypad 9 ** action: Tries to change hair and skincolor. Does not seem to work, so it just shows some information about selected agents.

** Key: Keypad 1-3 ** action: Saves the seed / body of the selected agent or civilian. Does not work on civilians it seems.

** Key: Keypad 4-6 ** action: Applies settings saved by keypad 1-3 respectively. If no agent is selected, current seeds saved will be shown as information.

** Key: Keypad 0 and home ** action: home saves the randomseeds of every agent, and 0 returns the agents to those seeds and respawns all agents.

** Key: Keypad 7 ** action: Forces all cars to park. Trying to make it possible to use cars, even though its most likely still very bugged if I managed to make it possible.