Suggesting rule change: make immediately unpausing after a player asked for a pause against the rules.
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A minimum duration for a pause is a good start IMO. I haven't touched Dota 2 in years but they had a similar system when I played it.
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I'm embarrassed to inform you that i quite often missclick on the pause button while microing units in intense fights :3 (and i've seen other people do the same), but if no other solution is better due to engine i guess that's still an improvement
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@TheVVheelboy said in Suggesting rule change: make immediately unpausing after a player asked for a pause against the rules.:
The only problem is the potential abuse. So unless you make it so there is definite pause limit per team, it can go wrong. Not per player, but per team
The game does not work this way. It works on a per-player basis. There's a lobby option to limit the number of pauses. You can use that to prevent it from being infinite.
And if there are infinite timeouts and a party decides to do that then I think you can just report them. See also the rules and search for 'Ruining games'. It states:
Ruining games — Do not deliberately ruin games by abusing game mechanics, such as continuously pausing the game or spamming pings. -
Oh boy, i can already see how this (if implemented) will get exploited, gg
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@Nuggets "don't pause the game to get game advantage" is already bannable
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Its not about getting advantage (didnt think of that, but maybe also relevant). What i see with this is: someone got pissed off, pauses and says "brb" and people literally have to wait even though everyone knows its not a serious pause. Not to mention "oh misclick"
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The way to make it less abusable potentially is to make the pause on per-team voting. Like recall. But in this case "force pause".
The other problem it would introduce is in this case the whole team shouldn't make any orders on pause, which is not realistic and would interfere with the game rules about game advantage
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I encounter this issue like 1/100 games. It's a very minor issue and not something that happens regularly.
I'm against implementing new rules for fairly niche situations generally. I think a more free system with less restrictions is better for everyone.
More rules > more ways to get banned > more players banned > less players to play with > less games > less fun.
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@Jip said in Suggesting rule change: make immediately unpausing after a player asked for a pause against the rules.:
Some people do not appear to understand that this topic is a suggestion. And you can disagree with the suggestion without ridiculing it.
I very well knew this is a discussion, thanks for your kind reminder. I could disagree without ridiculing it. Maybe we should create a rule for it
