For now, one method which is probably useful anyway (especially on public servers?) is to allow vote to pause for a specfic amount of time in minutes, after which an auto unpaused occurs.I suppose iIf the server admin is concerned with players not making it back, he could also install an AFK Detection mod alongside this one, for that synergy.

I really think things like "DoTaskInTime" which allows you to do something after a set amount of time are not going to work with this mod. It would require a significant amount of effot for something i beleive has little value.

Also, I feel like in this case the democratic solution is not as good as the autocratic one. Simply have the admin look at his watch ;).

What kind of voting do you use anyway? Majority? Smallest pause time that somebody asked for?

If somebody writes a patch, i will include it, but i wont spend my time developing this feature. Sorry.

I don't have a moral solution for you, and I don't know exactly what the problem is, but a technical solution could be to spawn seperate threads on the server and client that don't have their connections blocked. Again, I'm not familiar with what the problem is.

That sounds a little complicated. I imagine Klei might get it working before I do if I try to go down that way. But you are right, that is the solution. If somebody does want to implement, I'll be happy to include the pull request on GitHub