A story about unjust unpausing

Ok, so I was going to write a whole story about how my enemy Frank player, using knights, realised that I had a lot of camels and when he realised that he paused to overthink his decission, but that was the wrong assumption.

So the story goes that when he launches his first real push, after some early raids, he starts attacking my first mining camp, with my vills on it. So I show up with my camels to stop his attack and then he pauses. Me, with my preconcieved opinion, thinks that he finally realised that I had camels and that this is just some convienently timed pause. So I just unpaused, as I didn't want him to take the time to overthink is decision to attack and turn the new found knowledge into an advantage, this is an RTS after all.

So we pause and unpause a few times back and forth. He says food please and then we keep playing.

After the match I rewatch the replay as I didn't want to start making up a story/post based on the vague memory of an adrenaline rushed late teenager with an ELO in the mid 800s. I find out from the replay that he must have known that I had camels, as I first countered a small raid consisting out of a knight and a few scouts in early Castle Age with camels. After that I try to raid him back, but seeing that he added houses behind the pallisades of hideout. I decided that it would be better to turn this raid into a scouting mission, during which I figure he must have seen my camels after a scorpion starts attacking me and his knights follow my camels for a while. Now we come when he tries to raid again (Which I thought was a push), during which the pause happend shortly after my camels show up.

In the end I was wrong in assuming that he didn't know of my camels. I wish I had kept the pause on and just asked why. After the match I didn't really apologize to him, probably due to the adrenaline again. Even when he tolled me that he had to open the door after the bell rang. I still feel bad about this sooo....

Rainer Winkler (my opponent), I'd like to publicly apologize for unjustly unpausing and I hope that you are doing well.

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P.S. Devs, would it be possible that when somebody pauses that the whole screen turns black to prevent the gathering of information about the match?