How Often Do You Pause Your Game?

[Nalgas]

When playing multiplayer games, no pausing ever, no exceptions.  Whatever happens happens.  We just deal with it as it comes.

In single player, I pause only in extreme emergencies.  I'm sure there have been a handful of other times in the past couple months that I've paused other than the auto-pausing it does during the Fallen Spire campaign, but I can't think of any off the top of my head.

Basically, around here we put the "real-time" in "real-time strategy".  Heh.

[zebramatt]

Big tower defense fan, me, so plenty of pausing abounds!

Although I've no qualms about save-scumming, I've rarely ever felt the need in AI War due to the pause feature.

I played through the single player campaign on StarCraft II a couple of weeks back and at first I had to retrain myself to plan on the fly - I really missed the pause button, I can tell you! I found myself save-scumming far more frequently too, since the difference between winning and losing was so often more a matter of not doing everything fast enough in precisely the right order than it was simply neglecting to plan for something.

So yeah. I love pause!

[Cyborg]

I played through the single player campaign on StarCraft II a couple of weeks back and at first I had to retrain myself to plan on the fly - I really missed the pause button,

For what it's worth, that game also has a pause button.

[Echo35]

I never do unless I need to get up or something. It's a slow enough game I don't feel the need to pause during game play.

[zebramatt]

I played through the single player campaign on StarCraft II a couple of weeks back and at first I had to retrain myself to plan on the fly - I really missed the pause button,

For what it's worth, that game also has a pause button.

Sure but you can't actually interact with anything! Obviously I'm not just talking about the ability to pause. 

[Echo35]

I played through the single player campaign on StarCraft II a couple of weeks back and at first I had to retrain myself to plan on the fly - I really missed the pause button,

For what it's worth, that game also has a pause button.

Sure but you can't actually interact with anything! Obviously I'm not just talking about the ability to pause. 

Or you can play Achron and PAUSE TIME ITSELF

[Lancefighter]

I tend to micro manage my fleets during a few points - starships emerging from a warp gate, dreadnaughts getting within range of anything, and raid starships/transports/anything starship related.

Also, transport bomber suicides onto mass drivers.

[Haagenti]

From the Haagenti Ministry of Propaganda "Every second that a ship is doing nothing, the AI kills a kitten"

So I tend to be on pause all of the time. Making sure that everything is doing something. My worst nightmare is that resource meter on 999.999.