First of all, when the game loads can it please start paused? This is standard for most other games of this type and I am used to starting the game up and then going to make a cup of tea.
Can we please have more auto-pause options as well? The only event that currently pauses the game (and also provides a pop-up window) is when new settlers arrive. On a couple of occasions now I have been deeply focused on micro-managing something and not noticed a raid alert, an option to auto-pause for raids (and have a pop-up as well) would be great.
Also, an auto-pause for any combat event would be cool, the “wildlife attacking” alert is used for wolves actively attacking as wel as boars running away. If the latter happens a lot it can be annoying, like someone crying wolf all the time, literally… Also, I keep losing wolf dens that I farm because some villagers got too close and decided to attack it, there is no alert or pause for this.