Hmm. Idea: when you first bring up any of the plates (equipment, inventory, etc.) the game should automatically pause. Then when you actually equip something it unpauses again. There have been many times when I had to pause, open up my inventory to do something, and then the game would unpause again. And I had to pause it again quickly in order to do something else (mostly in battles). I dunno, maybe some people would hate this idea, but I would like to see it as an option (maybe in config.ini or something).