Pause When Building

[=7CAV=SPC.Henson.K]

Please! I'm trying to lay out a city or farm and am getting hit with message after message, alert after alert. Is there any way to pause all the noise while I have a construction window open?

[ElZavier]

you can't sadly, you can slow down the game to 0.5 speed and with a mod you can slowdown it to 0.25 speed

[Annahri]

Yes, this is one of the only things I don't like about this game. The main reason I play is to make nice looking towns. But whenever I'm doing that I have to stop to micro manage everything. An active pause would really help.

[MaGicBush]

They still have not added this? Ugh I thought about reinstalling after the patch today, but it's stupid they never added a simple pause button. I see it requested all the time since the game launched! I bought it at launch(well pre-order before it was removed from Steam, but apparently has since been added back lol), and while the game seemed fun the lack of a pause made me quit and uninstall after a few hours.

I may reinstall anyways and try the mod to slow it down to the .25 and see how it goes since I already bought this full priced.

[pizza7]

yes weird thing, cities skylines has it, and its needed if you have a few isles.

[BigChinJinn]

The Slow-Down is perfect for that; it's not fast enough to kill you with notifications (selling airships to stem my debt is a pain due to one notification window at a time) but not so slow its like a snail

[McDaniel]

Ubisoft doesn't care about what we want

[Smokerbait]

As I understand it, it's a technical limitation. As a dev stated in a different forum: "Right now, with the technical framework we're using, we can't add an “active pause”, where you can still act even though the gameplay is completely paused."

That's why all "Pause" mods aren't really pauses either, they just slow the game down more.

This limitation comes because being a Real-Time game was a feature of Anno games, just like how you can't pause and issue commands to units in an RTS game. That's not a flaw, that's how it is meant to be. They intended it to be this way, so building and coding it from the ground up so that the game doesn't stop makes it difficult to switch four years after launch.

People think it's an easy change, it's not.

Maybe in the next Anno game they'll include active pause when they start from the beginning to work it in.

[pizza7]

Originally posted by McDaniel:

Ubisoft doesn't care about what we want

oh they do, they want your money and got it.

[Wuik]

Hello,
Have you seen the end credit of the game ???
I am sure that if there is no active pause that is because that is no possible ...
Just for said ^^

[Gregomoto]

Most messages can be ignored during building. And with the move it option you can move all buildings easily afterwards.

[ArgoBletchley]

Originally posted by Smokerbait:

As I understand it, it's a technical limitation. As a dev stated in a different forum: "Right now, with the technical framework we're using, we can't add an “active pause”, where you can still act even though the gameplay is completely paused."

That's why all "Pause" mods aren't really pauses either, they just slow the game down more.

This limitation comes because being a Real-Time game was a feature of Anno games,
...

Maybe the Devs overhauled tech framework since 2205, as I recall active pause was a thing in 2070. Maybe it just not working with the region system.

[schorsch_morsch]

active pause was a thing in 2070.----

Not on my computer. All annos i have don´t allow me to even look around when paused.

for the mesages: option/gameplay there you can switch of the advisor and some of the alarms

[ArgoBletchley]

Weird, I swear when I played 2070 back in the days there's an active pause function and I used it to take screenshots.

[pemmons1]

Originally posted by Cam_Bustion:

The Slow-Down is perfect for that; it's not fast enough to kill you with notifications (selling airships to stem my debt is a pain due to one notification window at a time) but not so slow its like a snail

I installed it but can't make it work reliably. I'm not absolutely sure that it ever worked for me. From what I understand, the slowdown is activated by pressing 9 on the keypad, and presumably this is with num-lock enabled (because without it that key does something else). But it is a toggle, so supposedly you press the key again to return to half speed instead of quarter speed.

I've compared the elapsed time in-game against my watch, and pressing numpad 9 doesn't make a difference, at least sometimes. It's always half speed. Suggestions, anyone?

[Foundation]

I can understand the pause and play for multiplayers, but for single doesn´t make sense to allow building while in pause mode. Everysingle other construction game I´ve played had this, including Simcity, Cities Skyline, Tropico6, Surviving Mars, Factorio, Space Engineers and every other game I can remember of...

I heard there was a mod for this, but now its outdated. I will have to use 0.25 but sincerelly hope they implement pause and build, as it does make every sense.