Last night, I paused the game, and it was day time. I left, came back later, unpaused the game, and it was night-time. So it seems like time still goes by in the game if you pause it. If this is true, isn't this just easy cheese for a monk in training? You train to be a monk, take off all your equipment, stand in front of the gates, pause the game, and then come back hours and hours later. If 2 days has gone by, you could be a monk.

That is an interesting observation. Perhaps the game follows the computer's in ternal clock?

Probably. I wonder, if you pause, minimize the game, set your clock ahead an hour, what will happen? I know that once you return to the W&W, all but the little save box or whatever turns black, but there must be a way out of it ;) .

I don't know about you, but minimizing the game (or any other activity that acknowledges that the OS exists) usually wreaks havoc on my setup. I have to do my best to kill the game and start over.

Nope, W&W is not very supportive of the alt-tab behavior... :D

Bungleau is right. Forget minimizing or windowing this game. It will crash the game and you will need to quit it by means of the task manager. No Alt-Tab, Alt-Esc, or a similar action is possible. Either play the game or quit it.