Originally posted by Epitaph:

Yes, game definitely needs a pause feature for solo games. Problem I have noticed is that logging out doesn't seem to stop the timer for mead or food. I logged out with over 5 min left on my poison resist mean in my solo game to run to the rest room and refill my water. Logged back on to find that not only had my mead worn off but all three of my foods were flashing and had to be refreshed, they were not flashing when I logged out. Mead and food timers should stop when you log out, in my humble opinion.

Yeah from what I can tell, all buffs (including comfort, meads, and such) pretty much go away when you try to log back on. I think this was meant as a way to make it so people cant just log out when the going gets tuff, heal up in another server, then come back with no consequences (Still can be done of course, but youd be wasting your buffs).

The food thing is new to me tho, since Ive had plenty of times where I would get some sausages I forgot from my old server and use them, go to my new server and they still lasting as long as normally.