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i started a new game to try out regions but i cant progress in research because it resets to the beginning every time i load. everything else seems to save except my research.

windows 10 v0.74 native client

Other people have said this too, although I cannot recreate the issue. Is there anything special you are doing that could provide more information on how to figure this bug out? Any info you can give would greatly help!

let me know what kind of information you would be looking for baste. ive been a premium member since the early days of .3.x so im happy to provide anything you could need. mostly id say im playing the game like i normally have, except im receiving lots of support from my other colony on android cuz its 19k+ ppl and has any rez i would need to expand quickly

also let me know if there are any diagnostic tools or information tools i could download to send in a report. Ill happily get anything that helps this game get better or grow. I absolutely love this game and would recommend it to anyone willing to overlook a few flaws. Also gotta say thank you for mostly fixing the workforce issue over the last few updates, so at least i have my big android colony working fine after a few months of having to buy food and water to keep it from dying

I am having this same issue. When I reload the game after quitting, it resets the research and I have to buy everything over again. Even though I have buildings and such that could not be there if I hadn't bought the research.

I'll try to keep a closer eye on what I'm doing when this happens. See if there are any commonalities.

@bastecklein hopefully this can help you find why this happens so people don't have to take so many steps just to leave the game, because no auto save nor manual save from in-game works for saving Research.
I went onto here to find out what was causing the issue, someone suggested that you back out of your Colony then back out of your Region and so far, it seems to have saved the research I have done. I am still working on resaving up research so I can further test out the theory, but so far I do have some saved.

How to get them to save:
1. Unlock Research

2. Menu- Return to Region

3. Menu- Return to Title

4. Upon re-entering into the game my research is now where I left it. If I do not do all 3 steps, it will now send me back to this current state of research.

So it has become my new "Minimum". I will do more science to find out if my next one will become my new standard. The dark mark is me pulling down to show it's now staying with that as my current research. I need to save more points so I can do another test. It cost a lot to do that all at once! 😄

Opps. Forgotten this:

Android Moto E5 Play
My colony 0.76.0

Good news! 100% success rate on the research saving. 2nd attempt after saving up a ton of points and I am sitting at a new 'set standard'.
And after following steps 1-3 on the post above this I have come with the same success at saving the research. While the bug stands the process is required for all who are encountering the issue.
Now if only there was a quick way to get rid of all those ghosts that stay in buildings because even with my new day old set up I still have to go through and open each buildings employee list so it can update who is actually working and not for my colony to be and stay successful. Any hopes on resolving that issue? It's about a 7 minute process clicking every single building and all I have is 1.2k workers/buildings to sustain that. I can't imagine I will stay loving the game if that's the daily process of micromanage just to be able to play.

So it is sort of intended that you have to back out to region each time to save the research, as the research data is actually saved to the Region file, not the individual city file. I wonder how you were normally exiting the game before exiting to region? It is my understanding that pressing the 'back' button will bring you back to region.