No, I have not paused the game, I have switched from fast speed to slow speed. When I play live I like to do fast and at night I make it slow. The crops going in cylces does help but I am at level 2 croppig and have never had 500 in my bin. I also have 15 villagers. I guess I need to breed more to get the 3rd hut but seems like all I have time to do is harvest and water and 2 people researching.
But I am still all alive and no one has died yet although I can not wait for that as I want to bury my first villager and reach one of my goals. Thanks for the reply.
ONE QUICK NOTE:
I did notice when you have a crop up some people are harvesting but if you put them back on the crop it then says planting. I do not think this affects the crops as I made for sure I always had at least one person harvesting and one planting and one watering and my crop still dissapeared.