Easier way to see damage in combat

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When stuff is going on, I use Pause both to review damage and to give orders. Unless I'm role-playing Ripcord O'Reily, then it seems (more fun and interesting to me, and) only fair to be able to use Pause, since these are supposed to be spaceships full of crew and computers, not one guy on a desktop computer with a mouse and CRT controlling a whole fleet.

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