In VV2, I have twice left the game paused (when I knew I would be away for quite a while) and came back to an island event. The problem is that once I respond to the island event, the game acts like it was not paused between when the event popped up and when I returned. So the fire went out, and I had to clean up the village after leaving it unattended for multiple hours.
I put the game on Pause to avoid this!

I don't mind that the events pop up during pause, I just wish they didn't unpause the game... lady_geek