Lately I've noticed many players pausing when they get down to 0.5 health during a spar. The pause makes them "lose" the spar, but doesn't add a loss to their record. I don't think this is fair to other players and should be a punishable offense. I'm not talking about banning, but maybe add a feature that if a player pauses during a spar they are "banned" from spar for a half hour, and the time could increase with repeat offenders. Just throwing the idea out there.  

I see, but what if a player does not mean to pause? They should make it so that it still adds a lose, not a ban.  

Wasn't this problem fixed a year or so ago? I remember people abusing it for a while, and then it was solved by adding a loss to the pauser. It's back again?  

Posted by Zen

I see, but what if a player does not mean to pause? They should make it so that it still adds a lose, not a ban.

The people who pause in spar to not get a loss, most likely are pausing on purpose. Like pretend if you get a text or are multi-tasking while it's your turn, and it pauses you...then that's accidental. It'll actually give you a loss and it'll warp you out of the arena right away. But, like some sparrers, who are too serious about their spar stats...They purposely press the power button so their screen gets locked(and maybe turn their iDevice off?), then it'd pause their characters. That pause will warp them out still, but it won't give them a loss.

That's what a friend told me like a long time ago, when they fixed the "paused". I'm not sure if that's actually true though. I guess if it's not true, then correct me. It'd be nice if GP staffs look into it, and fix that Paused issue though. Because I think most of us would rather like to see more legit sparrers than boosters .  

I can see how this would be annoying for pausers to not get a loss for sparring but it sounds like a bug that the spar loss isn't adding to their profile. Maybe the solution is to completely disable features (as in the menu, profile, ect...) while in the spar queue or while sparing so this could not happen. For PC servers, and for the default PC client software (non custom), there is a simple flag that we can just type in a line of code and it disables their map, and inventory. If no one could correct the bug, I would just go with a punishment.  

Well sometimes I pause but it is because the 20% or the 10% crap but I thought they fixed the pause crap  

I've had a load of people pause against me in spars its not just iDevicers who can do it. I'm told if you're on PC and disconnect from network or take out the wire for your router it pauses so it sometimes counts as a draw as you cant hit the player so after a certain time the spar ends.  

Posted by Haze

Lately I've noticed many players pausing when they get down to 0.5 health during a spar. The pause makes them "lose" the spar, but doesn't add a loss to their record. I don't think this is fair to other players and should be a punishable offense. I'm not talking about banning, but maybe add a feature that if a player pauses during a spar they are "banned" from spar for a half hour, and the time could increase with repeat offenders. Just throwing the idea out there.

OMG yes yes yes, fix this please

PAUSERS:

Lueggy (ET)
Esephos Jay  

Posted by Xavier

Wasn't this problem fixed a year or so ago? I remember people abusing it for a while, and then it was solved by adding a loss to the pauser. It's back again?

No it still hasn't been fixed, and this is something people have given feedback on for a long time and still no change has been made.  

Guna keep adding to my list of constant pausers

Pausers:

Esepheos Jay° (correction)
Mako (no guild tag, hard to find using search)  

Good idea ^.^  

I hate sparring against people who do this.  

Oh wow, When I sparred in 2011, no matter what they always add lose either tie/pause people.  

Please post the names of any pausers.  

(Lueegy) I see I was mentioned in this tread and I don't pause any more