Suggestion to prevent abuse of pause

[Darkness01101]

@Esteba

That way players are discouraged from abusing it

I don’t think pause abusers would care if you saw their pause stats. If the pause starts are so egregious that you and a teammate or two can deduce they are a pause abuser then wouldn’t it be, inherently, true that the devs should already have and know that? And with those stats, be able to develop appropriate protective and reactionary safeguards?

I don’t play MP so this isn’t a big topic for me, but I thought you might enjoy these past threads on pauses:

[Multiple Polls] Pausing Needs to be Changed/Limited: Definitive Discussion Thread

From the few threads I’ve seen today it appears we need a definitive discussion thread on pausing and what (if any) changes need to be made. There’s already another thread about current pausing etiquette. Had someone pause today and say “sec” without an explanation or ETA. After 5 minutes I asked if they were still there and received no response. A couple of minutes later I said if they didn’t respond in 10 more minutes I would unpause the game. No response and I unpaused after confirming they …

Pause abuse

I’m very disappointed this has to be said, but there should be a limit on pausing in the game. There are people who abuse unlimited pausing and start griefing when they lose. Having no safeguards against this type of behavior is folly.