[1.0.11] make automation pause icon less obtrusive
currently it's a recolored pause symbol, which is fine and all, but it's also really large and if we have a lot of them it's a bit much. instead, i would personally prefer if the symbol was smaller, or even not exist and there be some visual indicator on the building itself that it's pause (like maybe a flag draped over the entrance)
a list of automated buildings with the ability to sort by state would be good to go with though
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20 Mar
TC MergedThis game looks fantastic and I love seeing my beaver colonies grow and develop into functional and aesthetically pleasing cities! Which is exactly why it's really sad that, as your city grows, it becomes cluttered with an ever increasing number of paused building icons that are honestly kind of an eyesore. It's all the more noticeable now that buildings are often paused as part of automation, and in fact you're encouraged to use automation to pause a lot of buildings just for the sake of efficiency. I appreciate the toned down blue version of the icon for that, but it still ends up being visual clutter and, in the case of automation, doesn't tell me anything worth cluttering up the view for since the whole point is that I don't need to manually unpause it.
I don't know what exactly to suggest as an improvement, obviously you still need to be able to tell that buildings are paused, but some way to at least hide them when you don't care about them might be a good start. -
21 Mar
Gin Fuyou System"Toggleable or less intrusive "Paused" icon" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-03-20), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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25 Apr
John Doe MergedIt's really ugly seeing so many "paused by automation" icons all over the screen while playing the game with a fully-loaded set of automated workplaces. And, yes, I know there's a keyboard shortcut to hide the entire UI overlay, but that's not what I want. I still want to see the rest of the UI – I just don't want to see all those blue icons all over the place.
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29 Apr
Gin Fuyou System"Allow us to hide icons" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-04-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.