So earlier tonight I had some things I needed to do, and I was in the middle of the first phase of the tribal on a race I planned on taking through to Space. I decided to run two fishermen over to the ocean and start them going, and I then sent my chief and another 3 tribe members after them to use the flying fish power, which I had never done before and was anticipating seeing the animation before I logged off. In a hurry I watched the fish and had the tribe members start gathering the fish up, and I looked to see I was past when I needed to be off, so I crammed in a nice save game right then and shut down my game.

So.. now after all of my commitments are fulfilled I come back with a nice relaxing stretch of a few hours to try to jumpstart these guys into the space stage so I can figure out how to unlock the colony ship creator. As it loads it immediately pans to my village where apparently another tribe is hacking away the last 89 hp's on my main hut. I can't get there in time, I only have one guy back there who gets slaughtered or just runs around crying, and it destroys my hut. It then says and I quote "Oh, the humanity! Your Tribal hut has been destroyed! Perhaps a fresh start is just the thing you need."

So Im like..Phew. I'll have to restart at the beginning of the tribal phase or at least with a fresh hut. But No. It restarted where I saved. So it comes back up with my Tribal hut with 89 hp's and I watch it hacked to pieces another 3-4 times while I try to determine if there is ANYTHING I can do.

Nothing.. Nada!

I'd consider this a big flaw in the design, because best I can tell I have to scratch two phases worth of work and start fresh. =(

That sucks royally alright.

The fact that this game is missing a restart button...

Something in every RTS ever...

Ok not Warcraft I.

But EVERY RTS after that...

It's mind bottling, like you know, when your so surprised your mind feels all trapped...like in a bottle. (I can't remember the movie I stole and butchered that from)

same thing can happen in civilization phase i saved when i was being attacked, cause i had to go to work, assuming that when i died it'd restart at the beginning.. but alas, it just restarted and get to watch me get destroyed a few more times. there should definitly be an option to start over in those two phases

Unfortunately the closest thing you can get to a resetting or redoing a stage is to start a new game on another planet with that same creature, starting at that atage. However, it seems that destroying the planet your creature was on before starting a new game can cause all of the perks from previous cleared stages to get cleared.

And yeah, having some sort of reset button would be most useful so as to prevent the need of such a process. This game is not very friendly to the casual gamer.

my girlfried had similar problems on civ... she knew her people were doomed and yet, shed had to wait untill they were blown out of existance to start over...


we need a restart button!

Agreed, a restart button would be much appreciated.

I had a very nice game with my species until in civ stage... the game created only 9 cities instead of 10. I found that out after I've already saved so... the game went to trash. >< Luckily I could start a new planet with my creation having all the perks from previous stages.

I think that situation would be a good time to use the "refillmotives" cheat, but yeah, restart button would be nice.

Yeah, that almost happened to me although it was before a battle so I just had little time to prepare. Four tries and I figured out a way to win, but I had much more of a margin to work with.

I totally agree with the last few posters: I can't imagine how the makers of so many great games still haven't come up with the Restart Button yet! It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to acknowledge the need for a Restart Button right from the start!

Players should be able to restart their planet at any stage that planet has already reached without losing any perks from previous stages of that specific planet.