Just got the game last week and i was doing pretty good. (i go out of town every other weekend) i got home and my whole village was dead. is there any way that you can pause the game???

You can either press the spacebar while you're in the main game screen, or you can set pause from the Options screen accessible from the menu.

you can pause from the options menu, or just press the space bar.

thanks, i was beginning to wonder if i would ever be able to get anywhere in the game if every two weeks i would have to start over