Why Does Ranked Game Allow Opponents to Pause Without a Timer?
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I am so exhausted from dueling adversaries on pauses, constantly hitting the F3 key back and forth.
Why would Age of Empires permit this?
Because we have best gaming community and we all trust each other, Devs also trust us too. 11
Most of the time it isn’t abused.
I suspect the player base trends older so it’s nice for people who still want to play but may have to answer the door, check on a kid, etc.
Game length can be super unpredictable as well so I don’t mind if someone pauses for the bathroom.
Seems like people respect it as long as you say something in the chat and keep it to 1-2 minutes.
Give a warning before unpausing as well.
because aoe games tend to be rather long, and unless in some other genres, being afk for even some seconds can be deadly.
if *i* bring the time to play a 30 minute ranked game, is it really too much to ask that *you* bring the time to wait 1 minute when i answer the door instead of throwing the entire game away for no reason?
I got griefed once by a dude that kept pausing after he lost.
He was mad I drushed.
Because it’s the best way.
What is the alternative?
A timer?
In the current implementation you can accept the pause if you want to or reject it if you are unhappy in life.
I agree that 10 pauses is rather arbitrary.
If the opponent unpauses twice then there is no need for a 10 pause fight. 2 pauses every 10 min would be better.
The worst is when the game gets paused without any message, you wait a bit, then try to reach the opponent, get no answer, finally decide it is time to unpause- and upon doing it, get a win as your opponent is disconnected, you were just waiting like a fool for 10 minutes.
I once found out that the dude disconnected during a long pause lol.
I never run into this in ranked, 1k.
Not everyone can wait though, so the mechanism as is makes sense to me.
Maybe they add a default 30secs to each pause, but other player should still be able to unpause at any point imo.
It’s not fair to hold someone else hostage in an rts
Sometimes I have to pause if my kid wakes up, but i hit pause and immediately and briefly say i need a min.
Most people are cool about it, and i honor their time as best as possible.
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