OK, I really think this is gonna be a problem. Cause,if I go away for say a week, I don't want to come back to a sad situation. Pause should mean pause, and when you start playing again it starts from there. Can we get one of the VV administrators to have this fixed or at the very least let us know what their definition of pause is, please?

I've been pausing a lot, since my gaming habbits are quite irregular and I don't want to miss their important moments. Though I never wrote down the actual details and checked them later, I'm pretty sure that such irregularities never occured in my game. I find the food levels, energy and health bars unchanged (or not noticably changed) when I unpause the game. But once, a nursing mother let her kid go right after I unpaused, and once I unpaused the game, clicked on a peep and his status changed to hungry from elated right in front of my eyes (but he hadn't have a meal for some time already). I just assumed that these things were about to happen anyway, so I didn't care that much.

But I remember that in VV, some things were kind of triggered by exiting and reopening the game, such as nursing moms letting their kids go. If I remember right there was a three minutes' check time about that, and reopening forced the game to do that check earlier. So I'm thinking, maybe, these things in VF are caused by similar reasons.

If you put the pause on in the

If you put the game in pause in the options shouldn't that pause ALL games?

I'm really interested in this, too. I live in one place from Monday afternoon to Thursday afternoon, and in another the rest of the time. I really hope that if I pause the game, it really IS paused!!

If it's NOT paused, just very slow, how much food should I have to insure that they don't starve while I'm away??

I would just make sure and feed them before you pause...make sure they are well fed...then pause each family slot after they eat by hitting the spacebar. It's quick and easy and helps you make sure that slot is paused. Since the game hotfixes the families don't consume much food at all while you're away so you don't need to worry about stocking up too much.

Good luck!

Pausing the game does stop everything in the game; however you have to keep a few things in mind about how pausing works in LDW games.

Leaving the game on the menu screen (or any other screen) does not pause the game, even though it seems like nothing is going on.

Going to the Options screen and pausing the game will completely pause the game, but only if you click Done on the Options dialog and quit the game.

If you intend to leave the game running, the safest and most reliable way to pause it is to press the space bar and verify that you see the message "GAME PAUSED" in the blue player comm area.

I always use the space bar to pause the game, since it doesn't matter if you leave it running or quit; it's paused.

I didn't mean to cause any problems!

But in case there is something going on, I will say I paused with the spacebar on that slot only and minimized it without returning to the menu of the game.

Perhaps it was just timing on my game. Since I have 4 other slots active it is very well possible that I checked the other 4 first and between that and pausing the one game slot their status and hunger leveled changed without me realizing it.

Thank you to everyone who provided feedback and well wishes! They were all fully fed and feeling much better by the time I went to bed!

Lady, thanks so much. I was so worried about my peeps when I saw this thread. I know I paused it from the options menu, so when I go back home today, I'm sure my peeps will be ok. They're the first family I started and I would hate for everyone to be dead from lack of food!

Be sure to check each of the peeps "hunger" level on the detail screen after they eat. Sometimes I just keep dropping them back on the kitchen table (same meal that was prepared - just never cleaned up) until they are completely "full".

I apologize for my misunderstanding of the concept, and am glad that it was explained correctly. I'm also glad to read that your family is better now.