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Urist_McUristson

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Forgot to Pause
« on: April 07, 2012, 05:51:19 pm »
This has to have happened to some of you before. It just happened to me, I had just started an embark, when I came back everyone had been mauled to death by the local wildlife. So what are your stories?
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Re: Forgot to Pause
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2012, 05:51:56 pm »
Never happened to me.
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Re: Forgot to Pause
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2012, 05:53:31 pm »
I did this once or twice.
Nothing terrible usually happens, although one time I was waiting for them to dig out the Fort, left for a while, came back, and we were out of food.
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Re: Forgot to Pause
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2012, 05:55:42 pm »
I've never had it happen... I always pause when I get up... Though I usually use the escape key, rather than spacebar. I don't know why, I guess it feels more natural to me or something.
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Re: Forgot to Pause
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2012, 05:57:28 pm »
I found my fort had 12 more masterwork hammers overnight, and 7 more goblin prisoners.


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Re: Forgot to Pause
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2012, 05:57:43 pm »
I came back once after having failed to pause only to find that the game had paused itself for one of eleventeen hundred different reasons.
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Re: Forgot to Pause
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2012, 06:04:48 pm »
Quote from: KodKod on April 07, 2012, 05:57:43 pm
I came back once after having failed to pause only to find that the game had paused itself for one of eleventeen hundred different reasons.

Remember that you can go into the init folder (a subfolder of the data folder) and change which announcements pause your game by changing the entries in the "announcements" file.  I usually turn off the pause from dwarves having babies and depending on what I'm doing and where, I will do the same for damp stone announcements.
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Re: Forgot to Pause
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2012, 06:25:15 pm »
Lost a few cavern based hunters to GCS - thankfully baby notification spam usually pauses gane every 2 minutes when I'm absent from game
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Re: Forgot to Pause
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2012, 06:29:52 pm »
Never done unintentionally
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Re: Forgot to Pause
« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2012, 06:30:05 pm »
I was a new to the game and quite naive back then. Once I minimized the game just to chat with a friend on skype. I figured that the fort was safe and could to just fine for a few minutes. I locked the floor hatch at the entrance and hoped it would be enough.

After a few minutes I found everything dead except one miner which was battling to death. That was the day when I discovered that the undead are building destroyers...

I think it was my first fortress that died in a horrible, gory way.
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Re: Forgot to Pause
« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2012, 06:50:17 pm »
Anything significant that happens pauses the game anyway.
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