Poll: Remove the possibility to pause the game (please read my reasoning first)
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2020 1:24 pm
First of all I would like to say that I do not want to remove pause completely.
I am sure my proposal is relatively controversial, but it should not be dismissed as bad from the very start, because it has a number of advantages and would, notably, solve several problems.
If anyone has played Anno 1800, he perhaps knows in which direction I would like to go.
You can still pause, which will lead you to a pause screen (so you can't do anything in the game itself), or go to the options menu.
Advantages:
The advantage would be mainly the increase in realism.
In real life time doesn't just stop. You have to compete with other companies in real time.
You can continue to think about strategies or just take a break, actions within the game are the only things that are blocked when you pause.
Problems solved:
There are a whole series of exploits that only arise from the possibility of pausing.
The game is based on the fact that all values are updated at the beginning of each new day. However, if you pause and change any value (e.g. add money to a subsidiary company), it will not be taken into account for actions (e.g. bond issue, IPO, loans, share issuance to the parent company). This is pretty much the biggest problem (in the sense of being able to exploit it) of Capitalism Lab and could be solved by this step.
So instead of solving the phenomena of the problem individually, the problem itself should be dealt with.
The change to remove pausing would be small in substance, but large in appearance, that is, effect.
I am sure my proposal is relatively controversial, but it should not be dismissed as bad from the very start, because it has a number of advantages and would, notably, solve several problems.
If anyone has played Anno 1800, he perhaps knows in which direction I would like to go.
You can still pause, which will lead you to a pause screen (so you can't do anything in the game itself), or go to the options menu.
Advantages:
The advantage would be mainly the increase in realism.
In real life time doesn't just stop. You have to compete with other companies in real time.
You can continue to think about strategies or just take a break, actions within the game are the only things that are blocked when you pause.
Problems solved:
There are a whole series of exploits that only arise from the possibility of pausing.
The game is based on the fact that all values are updated at the beginning of each new day. However, if you pause and change any value (e.g. add money to a subsidiary company), it will not be taken into account for actions (e.g. bond issue, IPO, loans, share issuance to the parent company). This is pretty much the biggest problem (in the sense of being able to exploit it) of Capitalism Lab and could be solved by this step.
So instead of solving the phenomena of the problem individually, the problem itself should be dealt with.
The change to remove pausing would be small in substance, but large in appearance, that is, effect.