Suggestion: Auto-pause after a few minutes inactivity

[ChalkboardCowboy]

I just accidentally left my game running, standing in front of the stove, doing nothing. I meant to pause, but I guess I hit the wrong key or just forgot. Luckily, I came back to find myself starving, but not yet dead.

I suggest that after a minute or so of no input from the player, the game should pause itself.

[coryduran]

As for the op's suggestion, I actually thought of the same thing once after NEARLY making the same mistake (I luckily caught it out the corner of my eye). I initially thought something like what you're suggesting would be good as well, but I think now that since people kind of deliberately waste time doing nothing in game waiting for a wolf to leave or for a storm to pass, a system such as this might be a hindrance to that.

[Subversion]

I feel like survival games should always have the element where you can't just go afk for an hour or so in a 'safe' place and still be alive when you come back. It's not like it's difficult to hit the escape key real quick at any rate, and if you forget, well, hard lesson learned. Probably not a mistake you'll make twice.

[TLDFAN]

LOL yeah hit the escape key.

[Orwell 1984]

Hello!

I'am sorry, maybe I am faulty or something but I actually enjoy the atmosphere so much, I often find myself just staying next to a fire and writing my ideas on a paper for 15-30 minutes and listening to the fire and the wind.

Über this

[TLDFAN]

really?