I guess I didn't think far enough before writing that post. Some details from me would have been nice. I think what I was meaning to say was when the game is paused, keep all the ambient sounds from machines running. But if I have 8 people mining or just making a lot of noise in general, that noise stays with you through the pause. ie. the building noise for example
So if that didn't make any sense, I will try to shorten it here.
If I pause the game, pause all the noises created by the people and robots.
...at the end of the day, I could always just wait for there to not be a lot of noise, then hit space bar