Particle System stopping and playing causes a weird behaviour

Hi.

I've got a particle system that I Stop and Play in order to pause/resume emission and I've ran into this weird behaviour where the Play function sets the internal isPlaying variable to true instantly, but doesn't actually start emitting new particles. Instead, the system waits until its particles count drops down to zero (thus "finishing" the last Stop) and only then it picks back up again and starts emitting new ones. This is a bit odd, I'd prefer the Play() function to start playing immediately. Is there anything I can do to change this behaviour?

 

This parameter destroys all the remaining particles. What I want is an option to pause (while still simulating the existing particles) and resume emission.

 

Oh, I thought this was already not used. Thanks.
Although the Stop/Play behaviour is still a bit confusing.

 

Agreed, the 'stop' enum offers StopEmittingAndClear or StopEmitting, doesn't sound like it will pause the whole simulation at the same time.
Trying the emission enabling options.