escape-key menu not very good for pausing

[NickAragua]

Apparently, using the escape-key menu isn't a very good way to pause your game - the menu seems to go away after a short while, leaving the game unpaused (so, I went to eat dinner and when I came back there were AI ships all over my home system).

[keith.lamothe]

That's probably the new "Gank" AI Type

More seriously, the escape menu doesn't pause it at all, just check the game-second counter in the upper left; you'll want to use P (Pause) for that

[x4000]

Not a bug -- the escape key doesn't pause the game for even a short while, as it's not a pause key at all.  This is critical for multiplayer in particular, where you might want to save or look at controls or whatever while the game continues; in fact, in solo play that can even be helpful.  The only way to pause the game is by use of the P key. This is pretty consistent with a lot of RTS games' skirmish modes, from what I've seen, though often they use F10 or F12 for their pause-less menu access.

EDIT: Gah, beaten to it by ninja Keith.

[Buttons840]

You guys having a contest?

Your good x4000, but keith has responded to some of my bug reports in, literally, 20 seconds.

[x4000]

Heh -- not a contest, but we both tend to be pretty fast at times depending on what else is going on.

[RCIX]

I'm beginning to think that you guys have an AI set to notify you when anything resembling a help topic is posted

[keith.lamothe]

The problem is that said AI sometimes gets really clever and says "Heh Heh, I won't notify them of this critical crash bug post, and they won't check manually for a while, bwahahaha".