Mh maybe a 5 min max, 1 time per dungeon, vote based pause system that can only be triggered outside of combat,with the possibility to leave mid pause could work.
But it should really be something you use out of a really important matter.
Big no to multiple pause, in combat pause or things like i have seen suggested in this topic that would become annoying real quick.
Maybe don’t go in keys when you know you have a delivery due (because deliveries don’t always arrive perfectly on schedule)?
Don’t answer it. Why give other people the power to dictate how you spend your time by rushing to answer the phone the moment it rings? Let them talk to voice mail and call them back when you’re done.
(Emergencies aside, of course, and if it’s an emergency they’ll call again immediately if you don’t answer. I liked the old landline answer phones for this reason. You could listen to them speaking to it and decide whether to take the call right away.)
“Can we just pause the key for a minute because there’s a burglar in my house?” LOL
This kind of thing happens to me rather a lot. Keyboards have liquid traps to avoid it getting into the electronics. If it was on the PC itself, you’re already DCed and your PC is dead.
My friends know better than to ‘stop by randomly’ - that’s how we’ve stayed friends. My family all live in different countries, but even if they ‘happened to be in the area’ they’d know better than to just turn up on my doorstep.
Not if you schedule the delivery.
To the OP, this is the most absurd idea ever. One of the key features of MMOs is that they happen in real time, there’s no pause, and the ‘lives’ of other characters within the MMO universe continue even when your character is offline. To introduce any kind of pause would be fundamentally opposed to a core principle of MMO.
If there’s an actual real life emergency, it takes precedence over a game. Always. But most of the things that happen during keys are not emergencies, and can be safely left until the key is over.
Lol seriously recognise, that there is something in yourselves that requires a calmer approach and less prickly pears. I know you will all probably find a way to take offence, but as I have typed. If you need a pause button, it’s in your own heads. Its not about Pace and RACE its about cool heads prevailing. The dedication and skill only comes from one thing. Application of thoughts. For you and others. Most forget to even communicate to take an invis pot until they are past the mob and, then typing in on party members… where’s ya pots, where’s ya pots… on people as i do souly in general. out of group…
See it for what it is. 0.0
SLOW down. Or do you need another interactive race to get the message when you click in on them.
Separate what you read.
Appreciate the pause.
Know your mind.
Stop forcing burnout, That is no race or game at all.