Lord Parkin
aka emperor
When any player hits the "pause" button in a pitboss or online game, the turn timer stops (as it's meant to). However, while the game is paused, if any player opens a diplomatic window - or logs in to have an automatic window popup due to diplomacy from another player - that player becomes trapped in the game, only able to exit by crashing out of Civ4. This seems to be because the game cannot be unpaused while in a diplomatic window, yet none of the buttons in the diplomatic window will work while the game is paused either. It's a vicious loop. 
An easy fix would seem to be either (a) allow the game to be unpaused while in a diplomatic window, or (b) allow the buttons in the diplomatic window to be pressed (offer deal, cancel and exit, etc) while the game is paused.
Hope this will be fixed at some stage, as it's a pain for players to accidentally become "trapped" in the game and have to crash their machine to get out. (Moreover the player has to request ANOTHER player - one that hopefully didn't have any diplomacy that turn - to login and unpause the game before the first player can log in again. )
An easy fix would seem to be either (a) allow the game to be unpaused while in a diplomatic window, or (b) allow the buttons in the diplomatic window to be pressed (offer deal, cancel and exit, etc) while the game is paused.
Hope this will be fixed at some stage, as it's a pain for players to accidentally become "trapped" in the game and have to crash their machine to get out. (Moreover the player has to request ANOTHER player - one that hopefully didn't have any diplomacy that turn - to login and unpause the game before the first player can log in again.
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