Sometimes it may be necessary to pause your games so that you do not miss your turn (travel, holidays, illness, etc). Note that for the purposes of (rol) Civ, during most phases the game isn't really "paused", but rather the deadlines are extended so that they do not fall within the requested pause date range. For trading, however, the delayed market open date is extended so that it does not fall within the pause range, but players may still set up pending trades that will be executed once the "market open" time is reached.
In order to pause your games(note that this will pause ALL your active games):
1) Log Into the Civ Rol-Play site.
2) Go to left margin; click on "(rol) Civ".
3) On the right hand side of the list of games you will see a button labelled "Pause / Resume". Click this button.
4) Specify the date you want to start pausing in the calendar titled "Start Date" and the date you want to end pausing in the calendar titled "End Date". The number of days you are requesting will appear directly under the calendars.
5) In order to let the other players know why a pause was requested, fill out a description in the "Reason" text area.
6) When you are done click on the button labelled "Submit Game Pause Request". This will request the pause on all your active games as well as any games you are added to due to being in the player queue.
In order to resume a paused game:
You can cancel a pause request on any game you are involved in by clicking on the "Remove" button at the bottom of this page. Note that removing a pause request still maintains the pause for at least 24 hours to give all players a chance to react.