You should be able to safely "Stop Time" for extended periods (I do it all the time), as long as you observe one note of caution: There is a circumstance where "Stop Time" will appear to malfunction. If you're playing multiple players in Fish Tycoon for Windows, you need to be careful how you handle switching players and changing the game speed. If you go to the menu and change players, and then change the game speed setting before you click Play, the game will update the tanks based on the new speed setting, and not the speed setting you had previously set. You need to always click Play immediately after you change players to allow the game to update the tanks at the currently set speed (in this case, Stop Time), and then you can safely go back to the menu and change the game speed setting.
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