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Pause / 'Freeze game state' button #1348

Open zaroth opened 8 years ago

zaroth commented 8 years ago

Somewhat similar to #332. It would be nice to have an equivalent of shouting "WAIT!" in real life. Both players should have the ability to freeze/unfreeze on will - it's just to prevent the other player from going through a sequence when we have ability to interfere. Possible uses:

  1. Mistakenly making/continuing a run. Currently the way to fix it is to jack out before the opponent has a chance to rez/react, but as #1343 points out, it's wrong from the mechanical point of view.
  2. "Install, Advance, Advance, Score". Clicking a hovered Pause button is faster than clone chipping a Clot.
  3. Using Shards, such as Utopia Shard after SEA Source, but before 2 Scorches.
  4. Councilman. Enough said.

The idea could be even further improved upon by adding some QoL changes, such as:

queueseven commented 8 years ago

Maybe we could have something like in Shandalar:

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Here you can see a bar with all the game phases. You can click on a phase to set a break point, and the game will stop to let you react when the phase is reached. Some phases (like the upkeed- and mainphase stop the game by default).