Annihilated, all progress lost??

It takes hours to play a few battles. I just lost my first battle after a week of play every night in the single player mode and it ended my game entirely. Now I have to start all over with no tech.... This sucks.

I was using the single player mode as a way to learn about tech as it becomes available to me. Starting all over is crazy....

The singleplayer is currently using the rogue-like setup. Meaning losing the GW means it's over

Woohoo, roguelikes?

The lack of an option to change that is seriously short sighted. Make it mandatory on Hard and Uber.. but on Normal? really?

Alt F4 if you start to lose or immediately when you lose. It should not save your loss, or rather, think you are starting the losing match for the first time. The beginning of the match is where you will start.

Alternatively, save your username/appdata/local/uber entertainment/planetary annihilation folder or specifically where the saves file cache is located between games, so you can default back to it when loss.

I do a lot of Alt F4, its up to you how you play the game, but it is intentional like Faster Than Light, it is roguelike where each playthrough is procedural and gets harder as progresses and a loss means a restart with completely different circumstances.

Each faction leader you beat results in a chance of a new starting tech. That way, you can start differently.

Guess what - not every game needs to babysit players. Easy is forgettable and unattractive.

Thanks for the tip. I created a batch file with the following that backups up the data and set it as a windows logoff script for good measure.

set filename=%random%
mkdir "%userprofile%\Desktop\PABackups\%filename%"
robocopy "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation" "%userprofile%\Desktop\PABackups\%filename%" /mir

You clearly don't seem to understand what a "rougelike" is. 1 life buddy.

From Doom to CoD

I'm not your buddy; guy.

In defence, I don't think 2m people could play and beat Doom Classic. I don't think I ever did in one setting. And I am looking across at the disc. Doom, Ultimate Doom, and Final Doom. Wasn't there a Doom for the SNES port?

Someone should release this as a mod

The introduction video clearly tells you that death is final in GW. I agree 'ironman' mode should be optional, but hey if you don't like it, play skirmish.

Let us also not forget here the PA is a RTS with the focus clearly on multiplayer.
Even the GW we have now is a stretchgoal. Only AI skirmish was ever a core feature.

So yes, it is getting a low priority. Becuase it is low priority and there are much bigger fish to fry.

Guys let no bash him for wanting to take his time getting to learn PA. There is no technical reason I'm aware of that would prevent Uber adding in a 'training mode' to GW that would keep your progress after a loss. It could be a tick box option, or tied into the difficulty settings (e.g. Training -> Normal -> Hard etc).

Also it's good to see @paulied77 has created a save system of his own

The needs to be a real tutorial as well. I do like the rouge-likeness, but yup it would be a good option.

Yeah, but what about on absurd with the aircraft start, on small?!?!?!?!?!

Fine.
You clearly don't seem to understand what a "rougelike" is. 1 life scrub
Better?

nevermind