How do you pause the game?

#1 Hi Adam -

The game currently does not support pausing but we are looking at adding that support in a future upgrade.

Justin

#2 Yeah, we could definitely use to have auto-pause in menus when you're under Solo challenges. That's a great idea.

d

#3 Please allow pausing in solo challenges. It's really frustrating when you need to answer the phone, go to the bathroom, etc.

#4 A restart/reset feature wouldn't bee too wrong either in the solo-challenges. If you make a mistake, especially in those one-minute-challenges, the game has to load back to the menu and then load up the course again in order for you to start over, which can add up to pretty long loading-times until you've reached the score you are satisfied with.
Just a thought.

And I am onboard with the paus-feature - that's really something I miss. Otherwise, it's a great game !

#5 I would say it would be good to completely cover the game screen when paused, so that pausing wasn't used to plan shots ahead. We got those scores by our quick wits *grin*

#6 Yeah, good one there by Simon !
Also, I don't know if the game can be hacked by Hex-editors or by all those nifty little cheat-hacker-programs out there, but it would be great if you could try to prevent that stuff as much as you can. It would NOT be fun to see some smart*ss hacking his way to the top scores on every course !

That's the only bad thing with the ability to pause - people get time to hack...

#7 The Pause feature and Restart feature have been added to the short list for the next revision. We dont have a date on the next update but we are thinking about it.

With regards to hacking, we have taken a pretty good crack at it both from the client and server perspectives. All communications with the server is encrypted and there is code on the server that watches for mis-use. Pausing does introduce a couple interesting scenarios to watch for, but the feature has been requested enough that we should probably do it.

Thanks for the great suggestions and feedback!

Justin (aka Jack Trash)
21-6

#8 No pause, no pause! Come on, it's only a couple minutes. I don't want people relaxing and regrouping before that last shot in the solo missions! Dealing with that adrenaline is part of the challenge. Let the phone ring, people! Go to the bathroom before starting that epic 2 minute challenge. Golly!

Matt (Yogurt)

#9 You can pause by setting $timescale=0