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Timer to pause game

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 11:21 pm
by ssilk
While playing Factorio you forget the time. I belong to the working part of mankind, now it's short before 1am and I need to stand up at 6:30...

So some suggestions:
- I would like to have some kind of interrupt every 2 hours of play. Configurable: none, 1, 2, 3, 4...
- a (configurable) message, which pops up, when timer is over. "Time to get a coffee... or go to bed!"
- a second timer starts and let me not play for (configurable) 10 minutes.
- in the game the "game time", the "real game time" and the "real time" should be displayed.

So by default you should make a pause every two hours, which is needed, because non-smokers like me forget about the needs of their body. I mean also, there should be some text-hint, how to get around the pause (go to configuration, change...)

P. S.: Another type of timer is also this App "to bed" I found:
http://appadvice.com/review/to-bed-will ... t-the-sack
I mean it would be really cool if you will be asked before playing when you need to get up next day and the game will stop at the calculated time.... ;)

Re: Timer to pause game

Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:35 am
by kovarex
I'm glad that the game is so addicting, but I think that this could(should) be done using some external application.

Re: Timer to pause game

Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:47 am
by n9103
Indeed. This is clearly a personal problem, and putting it in would be a big step towards feature bloat.

Re: Timer to pause game

Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 3:30 am
by 3LollipopZ
Sleep is a very personal problem... I love realtime clocks rather than interruption.
Maybe play in a windowed mode so you can see your system clock :)

Re: Timer to pause game

Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:55 am
by ssilk
Ok, understood, I thought it would be cool marketing: see we need that, because otherwise we kill our gamers. :)

... maybe I found a good candidate for my first mod. :) (if I find time to)
- in the game the "game time", the "real game time" and the "real time" should be displayed
But some of this shouldn't bloat the game too much?

Re: Timer to pause game

Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 5:31 pm
by Nova
Some kind of "8 hours playing factorio? Wow, that's long..." would be something nice (like in Anno 1404).

But never force the player to stop the game. Maybe there are 8 players on the pc and every one plays only for one hour? ;)