Alberth wrote:

With that setting, you cannot spend money while paused, so there is no need to change loan while paused.

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Alberth closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Not a bug

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Moriarty wrote:

Using that logic, why do you allow the user to open the finance screen? After all, they can't spend money so the numbers on there won't change.
Why allow them to select a station type for building when they won't be able to place the station?

In short - why should OTTD say what there is a "need" for? I obviously found the need to borrow money while the game was paused or I wouldn't have discovered this bug.

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Rubidium wrote:

When you take a loan virtual money gets constructed. If you still want to be able to take/repay a loan while paused you simply need to change the setting to allow everything. Then you may decide yourself what to do while paused, or what not to do.

The setting is there mostly for multiplayer, and to roughly keep the old behaviour but more consistent, and to allow the user to chose the method more fine grained. If you need to loan money, then you need to change the setting to allow everything while paused.

If you don't agree with us that taking a loan is a "construction" act that's fine. But we will keep thinking it is, as such no need to (re)open this bug as it'll be closed again.

Ofcourse, when being paused you may not watch your finance status of the past, nor look at the stations you might build. Or should we close all windows when somebody joins in MP; after all, the game gets paused momentarily and you can't do anything so the windows shouldn't be opened, so they should in fact be closed. Actually, we should also remove the toolbar at the bottom, after all the time doesn't change. Hmm... maybe just make the whole game, except the unpause and save/load/exit game buttons go dark. After all, nothing will change while it's paused.

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