Pausing differences

[Lefanis]

What is the difference between cold storage and vacation pause, other than the fact that you specify return date with vacation pause?

[Foundation]

You lose pretty much everything in cold storage, and very few things are lost in vacation pauses.

[Lefanis]

You lose pretty much everything in cold storage, and very few things are lost in vacation pauses.

What is lost?

[Anaris]

In a Vacation pause, you lose your unit, forfeit all duels, withdraw all protests and poll candidacies, and lose your bonds.

In a Cold Storage pause, you lose your estate/region/duchy, guild memberships (and thus, if a priest, your class), army sponsorships, and unique items.

(And, of course, in either case, if you pause while in prison, you forfeit your gold to the Judge and are still eligible to be banned, deported, or executed.)

...I think that's everything.

[Lefanis]

Ok, thanks!

[Velax]

I assume both pauses lose you any Government positions as well?

[Anaris]

I assume both pauses lose you any Government positions as well?

Most assuredly so.

[Buffalkill]

I'm thinking about pausing one of my characters so I can create a new one. What happens to a character when you pause? Does he lose his money? Does he continue to age? Does he lose items that he owns (advy)? Does it affect guild memberships? Skills? Honour? Fame? Prestige?

[Sacha]

Cash gold, honor, fame and prestige are unaffected. Bonds are lost, skills will continue to degrade normally, age will go up. You lose all titles and guild/religion memberships.

[Vita`]

Age is affected by both time AND wounds. And as someone who has had a paused character for a few months, I can attest that a paused character's age does increase over time.

[Buffalkill]

What about items? Does a paused character keep his common and unique items? Do unique items deteriorate while paused?

[Sacha]

It's been years since I paused an advy with items, but I *think* you keep the items, but they do degrade as they normally would.

[Vita`]

I *think* you lose the common items, but keep the unique items (and I'm sure they would degrade as normal)? I'm much more fuzzy on this point though.

[Wolfang]

No idea, does a tree make noise if it falls and no one is there to here it? Maybe the characters keep living, or maybe they are just lost in time and space. The thing is, no one really knows what happens to paused characters although many claim they do.

[Penchant]

No idea, does a tree make noise if it falls and no one is there to here it? Maybe the characters keep living, or maybe they are just lost in time and space. The thing is, no one really knows what happens to paused characters although many claim they do.

Yeah...no. When you unpause a character, you find out by looking at the changes.